Feb. 1903 ] Notes from Mycological Literature 
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The interesting and valuable Report of the State 
Botanist 1901, Charles H. Peck, has been published as New 
York State Museum Bulletin 54 (Botany 5) and includes pp. 
931-984, plates K & L, and 77-81, November 1902. New species, 
16 in number, and new varieties, 7 in number, are described. 
Another commendable feature is the full technical and popular 
descriptions of 11 species of Edible Fungi. These are illustrated 
in natural color on 2-page plates. Copies of this Report are 
offered for sale at 40 cents. Address Director N. Y. State Mu¬ 
seum, Albany. 
P. & H. Sydow, in Fasciculus I, Volumen I, Mono- 
graphia Uredinearum (pp. 1-192) give the diagnoses of 302 
species of Puccinia (298 on Compositae and 4 on Calyceraceae), 
of which 63 are described as new. Of the new species 13 belong 
to North America. 
Under the title of Einige Pilzfunde aus der Umgegend 
von Berlin, in Verhandlungen des Botanischen Vereins der Pro- 
vinz Brandenburg, 1901, 43:105-6, 1902, W. Ruhland after de¬ 
scribing two new species of fungi, reports the occurrence of 
Peck’s American Massaspora cicadina on a cicada collected in 
Bredower Forst the preceeding year. 
Professor Bessey notes the disease of potatoes that causes 
the fibro-vascular bundles to turn brown (Science N. S. 15:274, 
14 Feb. 1902), and under his direction experiments were con¬ 
ducted by Mr. J. A. Warren, who showed the disease to be due 
to Stysanus stemonites (Pers.) Corda. This is the first record 
of this fungus in this country and the first report of its connec¬ 
tion with the Brown Disease of Potatoes. 
A summary of what is known in regard to the most serious 
diseases of the sugar beet is given by C. O. Townsend in Report 
No. 72, U. S. Dept. Agr., Progress of the Beet-Sugar Industry 
in the United States in 1901. The items are Damping Off, 
Curly top or blight, Leaf spot, Leaf scorch, Beet scab, Brown 
rot or Rhizoctonia rot, and Root gall. 
In a eook of 323 pages recently issued (1902) by the 
Calumet Publishing Co., Pittsburg, Pa., entitled Powdered 
Vegetable Drugs, the author (Albert Schneider) briefly des- 
cusses [3 pages] Bacteria and Hyphal Fungi as causes modify¬ 
ing the characteristics of Vegetable Powders. 
Minnie Reed is the author of a paper entitled Two New 
Ascomycetous Fungi parasitic on Marine Algae, University of 
California Publications, Botany, 1 H41-164, pis. 15-16, 20 Nov. 
1902. The species described, studied and figured are Guignardia 
ulvae and G. alaskana. But few cases have been reported of the 
association of fungi with marine algae either in a symbiotic or a 
