Oct. 1903] Notes from Mycologieal Literature 
209 
In an Article Published in Hedwigia (Beiblatt, 42: 
( i 79)-( i 8i), Juli 1903,) it is stated by P. Dietel that a Phrag- 
midium on Potentilla, usually referred to either Ph. potentillae 
(Pers.) Karst., or Ph. obtusum (Kze. & Schmidt) Wint., is a 
new species and it is described under the name of Ph. potentillae- 
canadensis Diet. The same author also refers the Coleosporium 
on Veronia noveboracensis, heretofore called C. vernoniae B. & 
C., to the genus Stichopsora; and hence records it as Stichopsora 
vernoniae (B. & C.) Diet.; likewise our Coleosporium solidaginis 
is given as Stichopsora solidaginis (Schw.) Diet. 
A Beautiful Pluteolus, is noted by H. Webster in Rho- 
dora, 5:197-9, Aug. 1903. The delicate Pluteolus expansus Peck 
was observed at Alstead, N. H., late in July and a careful study 
justifies the place of this plant in classification now occupied — at 
first having been placed in the genus Galera. Mr. Webster 
points out that the substance of the stipe and pileus is plainly not 
homogeneous. He adds : “The viscid, greenish yellow caps, ele¬ 
vated on long slender stems, white tinged with yellow, an¬ 
nounced a novelty at first sight.” 
ITypochnus sp., Another Apple Rot following Scab, 
is reported at some length and illustrated by four plates in the 
New York Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin No. 255, 
July 1903. This is similar in appearance to Cephalothecium ro- 
seum which the same author, H. J. Eustace, showed also to be 
parasitic. It seems to be an undescribed species —a wound para¬ 
site and can not grow through sound epidermis. 
The Section of Lepidei is presented in the dichotomal key, 
by F. S. Earle, of the North American species of Lentinus in 
Torreya, 3158-9, April 1903. It contains thirty-nine species. 
Other keys in the same periodical by the same author, published 
so far this year, are species (26) of Panus (pp. 86-87), species 
(10) of Pluteolus (pp. 124-5), °f Galera (pp. 134-6) thirty-eight 
species. 
Articles on Bacteriology for High Schools, plain direc¬ 
tions for work, illustrated with figures, have been published this 
year in the Journal of Applied Microscopy by W. D. Frost and 
E. G. Hastings, on pp. 2270-2273 (April), 2383-5 (June), and 
2426-8 (July). 
A New Name is again Proposed for the Bitter-rot Fun¬ 
gus by Herman von Schrenk and Perley Spaulding, — Science, 
N. S., 17:749-51, 8 May 1903. The name is Glomerella rufo- 
maculans (Berk.) Spaulding & von Schrenk. The genus Glom¬ 
erella von Schrenk & Spaulding n. n. replaces Gnomoniopsis 
Stoneman. Septoria rufomaculans on Grapes was described by 
Berkeley in 1854. He described Gloeosporium fructigenum on 
apples in 1856. These two are the same. In 1898 Clinton, finding 
