NEWS AND NOTES 



Dr. C. E. Fairman, of Lyndonville, New York, spent some 

 time at the Garden in August consulting the library and mycolog- 

 ical herbarium. 



Mr. B. O. Dodge, of Columbia University, collected fungi in 

 Bermuda in August, and later visited Whitepost, Virginia, to 

 obtain certain fleshy species. 



Dr. C. L. Shear, of the Department of Agriculture at Wash- 

 ington, spent September* 18 and 19 at the Garden, consulting the 

 Ellis Collection of fungi. 



Mr. Wilmer G. Stover has been appointed assistant professor 

 of horticulture and botany in the Agricultural and Mechanical 

 College of Oklahoma. 



Dr. Gertrude S. Burlingham spent the summer near West 

 Wardsboro, Vermont, continuing her study of the genus Russula 

 for North American Flora. 



Dr. Bruce Fink, professor of botany at Miami University, Ox- 

 ford, Ohio, spent most of August and a part of September at 

 the Garden, continuing his studies of North American lichens. 



According to Pantanelli, Diaporthe parasitica has been suc- 

 cessfully inoculated into Italian chestnuts, and the strictest quar- 

 antine regulations have been recommended to prevent the intro- 

 duction of this parasite into Italy. 



Among the principal diseases of sugar cane considered by L. C. 

 and A. Maublanc in a recent series of articles, Schizophyllum 

 commune, Marasmius Sacchari, and I thy phallus impudicus 

 occupy an important place. 



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