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Mycologia 



Habitat: Living trunks of Libocedrus decurrens, causing the 

 pin-rot or peckiness of the heartwood of these trees. 

 Distribution : Cahfornia and Oregon. 



Type specimens are deposited in the pathological herbarium, 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Department of Agri- 

 culture, Washington, D. C. 



Timber and Forest Disease Survey, 

 Washington, D. C. 



NEWS AND NOTES 



Dr. E. J. Durand, instructor in botany at Cornell University, 

 has been appointed assistant professor of botany in the Uni- 

 versity of Missouri. 



Professor G. F. Atkinson, of Cornell University, visited the 

 Garden April 21, to consult some of the older mycological 

 literature. 



Dr. George G. Hedgcock, of the National Timber and Forest 

 Disease Survey, spent ten days at the Garden in April, consulting 

 the collections of timber-destroying fungi. 



The chair of botany at the University of Vermont has been 

 filled by Dr. George P. Burns, of the University of Michigan. 



Dr. Perley Spaulding, of the division of Forest Pathology at 

 Washington, made the Garden a brief visit in April to examine 

 the collection of plant rusts. 



Mr. Frank Dunn Kern, associate botanist of the Agricultural 

 Experiment Station at Lafayette, Indiana, has been appointed 

 fellow in botany at Columbia University for the ensuing collegiate 

 year. 



Miss E. C. Field, scientific assistant in the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, Washington, D. C, was at the Garden nearly two weeks 

 in April, consulting the collections of parasitic fungi. 



