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Mycologia 
Under the title “ Remarks on Some Species of the Genus Poly- 
porus” (Sv. Dot. Tidsk. 6: 635-644. 1912), Romell discusses 
fourteen Swedish species, two of them, P. albo-sordesccns and P. 
rnfopodex, under new names. Several of the species are figured. 
Dr. Charles Horton Peck, our distinguished state botanist, 
located at Albany, New York, will be eighty years old on March 
30. His numerous mycological friends will no doubt extend their 
hearty congratulations and wish him many happy returns of the 
day. Dr. Peck has been faithfully serving the state since 1867, 
almost fifty years. 
Professor Ellsworth Bethel has been granted leave of absence 
for five weeks from his position in the East Denver High School 
and will spend the time collecting in Costa Rica, Guatemala, and 
other parts of Central America. He sailed from New Orleans 
on Eebruary 26 for Panama. 
Gnomonia Caryae, the perfect stage of Gloeosporium Caryae 
Ellis & Dearness, was described by Erederick A. Wolf in the 
October number of Annales Mycologici. This is thought to be 
the first attempt to connect Gloeosporium Caryae with its perfect 
stage and the species is described as new, although close to Gno- 
monia setacea macrospora, which also occurs on fallen leaves of 
hickory. 
At the recent Cleveland meeting, the following officers were 
elected by the American Phytopathological Society for the current 
year: J'. C. Stewart, president; Haven INletcalf, vice-president; 
C. L. Shear, secretary-treasurer ; W. J. Morse, councilor. The 
next meeting will be held in Atlanta. 
An illustrated paper by H. O. Juel on Taphrina and E.voba- 
sidinm (Sv. Bot. Tidsk. 6: 353-372. 1912) deals particularly 
with species of Taphrina occurring on birch in the neighborhood 
