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devote considerable attention to this interesting, although some- 
what neglected, group of basidiomycetes. 
Dr. B. O. Dodge will spend six weeks during the summer at 
Camp Columbia, near Litchfield, Conn., where he will offer a 
course in general botany with special reference to the fungous 
diseases of forest trees. Some time will also be devoted to the 
collection and study of fleshy fungi. The work will be offered 
in connection with the Extension Teaching of Columbia Uni- 
versity. 
The March number of The New Phytologist contains an article 
by George K. Sutherland on marine fungi, a field of mycology 
which has been very poorly explored. The author of the paper 
restricts his investigations to those fungi which occur on Pelvetia. 
Four species of ascomycetes are recorded for this host, all of 
which are described as new. The number of species which occur 
on this host would suggest the possibility that marine fungi may 
be much more numerous than has previously been supposed. 
In a recent number of the Journal of Agricultural Research, 
J. R. Weir records, certain observations on Rhisina inflata. 
These observations tend to support the theory that this fungus is 
parasitic on coniferous seedlings. The roots of the dying seed- 
lings were found to be covered with a mass of white mycelium 
which was found to be connected with the fruiting bodies of 
Rhizina inflata. One experiment was conducted which adds 
some experimental proof in support of the theory, although the 
experimental work is not extensive enough to be conclusive. 
The species has frequently been reported as a parasite in Europe. 
The report of the state botanist of New York for 1913, pre- 
pared by Dr. Homer D. House, appeared early in June, 1915, as 
Bulletin 176 of the New York State Museum. It records the 
moving of the collections to the new building and their arrange- 
ment in the new metal herbarium cases in a way to make them 
more available for study and safer from insect attack. Three 
