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Mr. L. O. Overholts, who holds a Lackland research fellowship 
at the Missouri Botanical Garden, spent six weeks during the past 
summer at Tolland, Colorado, collecting flowering plants and 
fungi. He expects to publish some account of his fungous col- 
lections in a few months. 
A paper on the species of Synchytrium in the vicinity of Stan- 
ford University, by James McMurphy, appeared in the Dudley 
Memorial Volume of the Leland Stanford Junior University 
Publications for March, 1913. The following species are re- 
ported : S', papillatum Farlow, S. innominatum Farlow, S. 
andinum Lagh., and S. Amsinckiae; the last, occurring on 
Amsinckia intermedia, being described as new. Urophlyctis 
pluriannulatus Farlow is also reported. 
A comparative study of the development of the fruit body in 
Phallogaster, Hysterangiiim, and Gautieria has been made by Mr. 
H. M. Fitzpatrick at Cornell University, and the results published 
in a recent number of Annales Mycologici with copious illustra- 
tions. The author discusses rather fully some of the latest opin- 
ions regarding the relationship and origin of the different large 
groups of gastromycetes and suggests that a careful develop- 
mental study be made also of Dendrogaster, Protoglossnm, Gym- 
noglossum, and Clathrogaster, with a view to solving problems 
connected with the evolution of the gastromycetes. He outlines 
the following series as illustrating the origin of the Clathraceae : 
Gautieria — Chamonixia — Hysterangium — Protubera — Phallo- 
gaster — Clathraceae (Clathrella Clathrus). 
Miss Adeline Ames has recently published in the Annales 
Mycologici an excellent paper on structure as related to genera in 
the Polyporaceae, illustrated with 4 plates, containing 76 figures. 
The genera recognized are Polyporus, Bjerkandera, Ischnoderma, 
Cryptoporus, Piptoporus, Favolus, Porodisculus, Phaeolus, 
Corioliis, Trametes, Daedalea, Polystictiis, Phellinus, Pomes, and 
Ganoderma. Four of these are monotypic, and four others con- 
