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Dr. W. A. Murrill, assistant director, recently returned from 

 Virginia with a collection of poisonous fungi, which will be 

 chiefly used for chemical analysis. Returning, he found evi- 

 dences of the chestnut canker not far from Baltimore, Maryland, 

 and diseased trees became more abundant northward. At Belair, 

 Maryland, seventy-five miles south of Philadelphia, and at North- 

 east, Maryland, the effects of the canker were very noticeable, 

 most of the chestnut trees being dead or in a dying condition. 

 At Red Bank, New Jersey, where the first chestnut trees were 

 observed near the coast, the disease had become very serious and 

 was noticed from this point all the way to New York City, 

 especially near South Amboy, New Jersey, where whole forests 

 were either killed or badly affected. Throughout the whole of 

 Staten Island not a single healthy chestnut tree was observed; 

 and the same was true of Long Island so far as his observations 

 went. 



" Pod-Rot, Canker, and Chupon-Wilt of Cacao caused by 

 Phytophthora sp." is the title of an interesting illustrated article 

 by J. B. Rorer (Bull. Dept. Agric. Trinidad 9: July, 1910). 

 The three diseases mentioned are met with on almost every cacao 

 estate in Trinidad, and probably occur in most of the countries 

 where cacao is grown commercially. Trees exposed to infection 

 should be sprayed four times a year, avoiding the periods of full 

 bloom ; and cancerous spots should be cut out and the wounds 

 treated to prevent . re-infection from diseased pods. 



The Report of the Botanist of New York State for the year 

 1909, containing 114 pages and 10 colored plates, includes de- 

 scriptions of several new species ; monographs of the New York 

 species of Inocyhe and Heheloma; a list of edible, poisonous, and 

 unwholesome mushrooms hitherto figured and described by C. H. 

 Peck; and a list of genera whose New York species have been 

 collated with descriptions in the reports of the state botanist. 



The new species of fungi here described by Dr. Peck are : 

 Belonidium Glyceriae, Diplodia Hamamelidis, DothioreUa diver- 

 gens, Hypholoma Boughtoni, Hypholoma rigidipes, Marasmius 



