NEWS AND NOTES 



Professor A. H. Graves, of the Yale Forestry School, visited 

 the Garden on February 14 to consult the collections with refer- 

 ence to the diseases of certain forest trees. 



Dr. J. J. Davis, of Racine, Wis., an authority on parasitic fungi, 

 has been appointed curator of the herbarium of the University of 

 Wisconsin. The botanical collections will be provided with ample 

 quarters in the new biological building. 



Although several articles have appeared in Mycologia contain- 

 ing Latin diagnoses, contributors are requested to use English 

 for this purpose, because it makes better reading, saves time and 

 trouble both to the author and publisher, and is fully as valid for 

 the publication of new species. 



"Shade-Trees in Towns and Cities," by William SolotarofT, just 

 published by Wiley & Sons, New York, gives directions for the 

 treatment of the principal fungous diseases of shade-trees. The 

 work also contains many other things of interest to the tree lover, 

 presented in attractive form and abundantly illustrated. 



In "Notes on Chilean Fungi — I" (Bot. Gaz. 50: 430-443. 

 1910), Dr. Roland Thaxter describes and illustrates the follow- 

 ing new species of fungi : Taphrina entomospora, Uncinula Notho- 

 fagi, and Uncinula magellanica, all of which occur on living leaves 

 of N othofagus antarctica. 



In Sweden, where the eating of mushrooms is very general, 

 species having the " death-cup," or volva, are held in great respect, 

 only two of these, Amanita rube sc ens and Amanitopsis vaginata, 

 being considered safe by the ordinary collector. 



Professor Bruce Fink has recently made a very important con- 

 tribution to lichenology in the form of a large illustrated bulletin 



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