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Journal of Mycology 
[Vol. 9 
United States, Massee’s Classification being followed. Nos. 17 
and 18, (8 pp.), December 1901, are searching reviews of sev¬ 
eral books on Mushrooms, by Hollis Webster. 
W. C. Coker offers in the Journal of Applied Micro¬ 
scopy, 6:2411-2, July 1903, some suggestions on Algae and Fungi 
for class work. Rhizopus is not always satisfactory for showing 
sexual reproduction and Sporodinia grandis was found to be a 
good substitute. 
Bacteriology for High Schools, IV. Microscopical Ex¬ 
amination (continued) is the subject of a short illustrated article 
by W. D. Frost and E. G. Hastings, Journal of Applied Micro¬ 
scopy, 6:2426-8, July 1903. 
The Mycological Articles in the Report of the Bot¬ 
anist, 23d Annual Report of the New Jersey State Agricul¬ 
tural Experiment Station, for the year 1902 (pp. 337-422, pub¬ 
lished in 1903), are as follows: Notes upon Club-root, The Mil¬ 
dew of Lima Bean, The Asparagus Rust, Fungi as related to 
Weather, Notes upon some Rusts and Mildews at Wernersville, 
Pa., and Fungus Enemies of Plants in Nova Scotia. 
The Black Rot of Cabbage caused by the bacterium Pseu- 
domonus campestris (Pam.) Smith, can not be prevented by the 
removal of the affected leaves, is the conclusion reached after 
four years of practical field tests by F. C. Stewart and H. A. 
Harding, whose work is reported in full in the New York Agri¬ 
cultural Experiment Station Bulletin 232:43-65, PI. I-II, April 
1903. 
Mrs. Carolyn W. Harris lists the Lichens belonging 
to Sticta and to Nephroma and Solorina, with popular descrip¬ 
tions or notes and several figures, in the Bryologist, 6:55-8, and 
76-9, July and Sept. 1903. 
Bulletin 117, Kansas Experiment Station contains an 
account of Bacteria of the Soil with results of cultures carried 
on through a series of years by N. S. Mayo and A. T. Kinsley. 
They call attention to the high bacterial content of soil containing 
Buffalo Grass, and to the marked decrease in the bacterial content 
in the western part of the state. 
The Fourth Number of the Annales Mycologici (i 1297- 
390, July 1903) contains the following articles: Traverso, Primo 
elenco die Micromiceti di Valtellina; Sydow, Neue and kritische 
Uredineen; Maire, Remarques taxonomiques et cytologiques sur 
le Botryosporium pulchellum R. Maire (Cephalosporium den- 
droides Ell. & Kell.) ; Heinze, Einiges, fiber Saurebildung durch 
Pilze, insbesondere auch fiber Essigsaure- und Oxalsaurebildung 
durch Aspergillus niger; Zahlbruckner, Neue Flechten. 
