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versity, was elected President of the Botanical Society of 

 America. 



Mr. F. J. Veihmeyer, of the Bureau of Plant Industry at Wash- 

 ington, spent several days at the Garden during the holidays, 

 consulting the collections of fungi made by Langlois, Calkins, 

 and others. 



In the Botanical Gazette for November, 1910, Miss R. H. Love- 

 joy describes a new genus, Catathelasma, and six new species of 

 hymenomycetes collected in the Medicine Bow National Forest, 

 in the Rocky Mountain region of Wyoming. Miss Lovejoy 

 promises to continue her collections in this new and interesting 

 region. 



The Fungi of Chile have recently been treated by Spegazzini in 

 a work containing 205 pages and 129 text figures. Of the 326 

 species and varieties listed, 121 are pyrenomycetes, of which 105 

 are described as new, and 35 are discomycetes, of which 24 are 

 new. The small number of hymenomycetes, only 15, indicates 

 the almost total lack of information regarding -this large and 

 important group. 



Volume 3, part 1, of North American Flora, comprising 88 

 pages of text, appeared December 29, 1910. It contains the order 

 Hypocreales, with the families Nectriaceae and Hypocreaceae, by 

 Fred J. Seaver; and the Fimetariales, with the Chaetomiaceae, 

 by Helen L. Palliser, and the Fimetariaceae (Sordariaceae), by 

 David Griffiths and Fred J. Seaver. Some of the species here 

 treated, especially those belonging to the genus Nectria, are in- 

 jurious to cultivated plants, while many of the species of Cordy- 

 ceps live upon and aid in destroying injurious insects. 



A number of new species of fungi were recently descibed by 

 Dr. Chas. F. Fairman (Ann. Myc. 8: 322-332. 1910) under the 

 title "Fungi Lyndonvillenses novi vel minus cogniti." 



