72 
Journal of Mycology 
[Vol. 9 
Relative Viability of B. coli and B. typhosus under Certain Con¬ 
ditions, Stephen De M. Gage; and Further Evidence of the 
Apperent Identity of B. coli and Certain Lactic Acid Bacilli, S. 
C. Prescott. 
Mycological Notes, Nos. ii and 12, were issued by C. G. 
Lloyd, December 1902, and generously distributed to mycologists. 
The notes are numbered 191-199 in No. 11, and 200-213 in No. 
12. As usual these are neatly gotten up, very interesting and 
extensively illustrated. Full page, consecutively numbered sep¬ 
arate plates now accompany the Myc. Notes. In No. 11 the notes 
are miscellaneous (two by Dr. Farlow), a new form of the 
Geaster saccatus is recognized; No. 12 is devoted to the Bovistse 
— the species of Bovista and Mycenastrum; a new form of M. 
arium is recognized; the genus Catastoma will appear in the next 
issue. 
Uredine^e nov^e, J. T. Lindroth [of which 6 are North 
American], and eine arktisch-alpine Rhabdospora [an exhaus¬ 
tive study of R. cercosperma], are printed in Meddelanden fran 
Stockholms Hogskolas Botaniska Institut, Band IV, 1901. 
Professor F. S. Earle's Key to the North American species 
of Cortinarius is continued in Torreya, 2:180-3, Dec. 1902. 
Dr. Alexander Zahlbruckner gives the latin diagnoses 
of one new genus (Hassea), 17 new species, and 2 new varieties 
of Lichens, under the title Diagnosen neuer und ungeniigend 
beschriebener kalifornischer Flechten, in Beihefte zum Botan- 
ischen Centralblatt, 13:149-163. 1902. 
In the Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science 
1901, (Published in 1902), Mycologic articles are as follows:— 
Notes on Apple Rusts (H. H. Whetzel) ; Notes on the Genus 
Stemonitis (H. H. Whetzel) ; The Germinative Power of the 
Conidia of Aspergillus oryzae (Mary F. Hiller) ; Spore Resis¬ 
tance of Loose Smut of Wheat to Formalin and Hot Water 
(William Stuart) ; Some Additions to the flora of Indiana — 
Plant Rusts (William Stuart) ; and A Collection of Myxomy- 
cetes (Fred Mutchler). 
An extended study of Two Fungous Diseases of the 
White Cedar (Cupressus thyoides), namely Gymnosporangium 
biseptatum and G. ellisii, is given in the May No. of the Pro¬ 
ceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 
pp. 461-504, plates XXII and XXIII, 1902. The belief is ex¬ 
pressed that the fungi cause marked metabolic changes in the 
stem of the host, accompanied by the accumulation of resins and 
other substances, products of increased cell activity. A full and 
conveniently arranged tabulation of the characters, hosts and 
distribution is given of the several species of the genus Gymnos¬ 
porangium. 
