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and studied by Rogers and Gravatt, who find by inoculations that 
this tree is no less resistant than the chestnut, but, being less sub- 
ject to insect attacks and other injuries, it enjoys greater freedom 
from the disease in the field. The chinquapin grows very poorly 
in the latitude of New York City, but the few plants observed 
here show a marked resistance to the canker. Among the new 
plant introductions ready for distribution by the Bureau of Plant 
Industry, are the Chinese chestnut, Castanea mollissima, collected 
in northern China where the canker has probably existed for cen- 
turies ; and a hybrid between the American chinquapin and the 
Japanese chestnut produced at Chico, California, by Dr. Walter 
Van Fleet. Both of these trees are said to be, as one would ex- 
pect, highly resistant to the canker. 
The annual report of the New York State Botanist for 1914, 
distributed as Museum Bulletin 179, was issued in December, 
1915. Two mycological contributions to this report, by Dr. Pen- 
nington and Dr. Kauffman, were issued separately in advance and 
have been noted above. Descriptions of many new and inter- 
esting species of fungi are contributed by Dr. Homer D. House, 
now State Botanist, among which are the following: 
New species by Dearness and House: Aecidium Uni, Cerco- 
spora argythamniae, C. namae, Cylindrosporium spigeliae, Laes- 
tadia galactina, Macrophoma celtidicola, M. peckiana, Phyllosticta 
baccharidis, P. maurandiae, P. medeolae, P. oakesiae, P. pachy- 
sandrae, P. rhe.viae, Placosphaeria celtidis, Ramularia delpkinii, 
Septoria darlingtoniae, S. erythraeae, S. tinctoria, and Thyridium 
ceanothi. 
New names and combinations: Hebeloma peckii House, nom. 
nov., Melanopsamma waghornei House, nom. nov., and Phyllo- 
sticta rani Dearness and House, comb. nov. 
While collecting cacti in South America last year. Dr. J. N. 
Rose picked up a number of fungi which are of special interest 
as indicating the close connection existing between the flora of 
tropical North America and that of Brazil. He obtained about 
100 numbers ; most of them in the mountains about Rio de Ja- 
