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Mycologia 
In a preliminary paper in Phytopathology for December, 1913, 
W. H. Long discusses Polyporus dryophilus and P. dryadeus and 
the rots caused by them. He says that the former is known in 
Europe under ait least three different names, and that Robert 
Hartig confused it with P. dryadeus, which causes in this country 
a serious rot in the roots of various species of oak. 
Mr. Fred D. Fromme, formerly a graduate student at Columbia 
University, and Mr. H. C. Travelbee, graduate of Purdue Uni- 
versity, have become assistants in the botanical department of 
the Indiana Experiment Station, filling positions formerly oc- 
cupied by Dr. F. D. Kern and Mr. J. B. Demaree, who have 
gone to Pennsylvania State College. Their chief work will be in 
connection with the rust problems under investigation by the 
department. 
The report of the botanist of New York State for 1912 ap- 
peared November 28 as Museum Bulletin 167. It contains de- 
scriptions of thirty-six new species of fungi and four colored 
plates of edible and poisonous species. Amanita ovoidea Bull, 
is reported from New York, and is put in the edible list. It is so 
very similar to the white form of Amanita phalloides that no one 
should think for a moment of using it for food. Mycena splen- 
didipes Peck is described from Richmond County and is said to be 
poisonous. It is a beautiful species, with bright-yellow stipe and 
yellowish-brown to pinkish-brown pileus. 
Cantharellus clavatus from Duluth 
Since the appearance of my article on the identity of Can- 
tharellus breinpes and Cantharellus clavatus in Mycologia, Sep- 
tember, 1913, I have received a box of fine specimens from Dr. 
S. M. Stoker, Duluth, Minnesota, who says he has often collected 
the plant in the neighborhood of Duluth and referred it to 
Cantharellus brevipes Peck. Most of the specimens are cespitose 
with the margin of the pileus thin and spreading like those shown 
in Plate 94. Some of the plants are branching. They agree with 
the Neebish specimens, although in some of them the spores are a 
