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the perfect stage of the fungus, placed it in Miss Stoneman’s 
genus Gnomoniopsis; the latter being invalidated by preoccupa¬ 
tion, the name as above is now the appropriate one. 
William Alphonso Murrill continues his studies of the 
Polyporaceae of North America, giving the fourth installment, 
namely, the genus Elfvingia, in the May. No. of the Bulletin of 
the Torrey Botanical Club (30:296-301, 1903). Now we have 
Elfvingia fomentaria for Fries’ Polyporus reniformis; Elfvingia 
megaloma for what has usually been called Polyporus applanatus 
Pers. by American botanists, the commonest species of Shelf- 
Fungus, though it is Polyporus leucophaeus Mont, as now agreed 
by all mycologists. 
Fungi on old Logs and Stumps is the title of a short popu¬ 
lar article in the June (1903) No. of the Plant World (6:139) 
by C. L. Shear. A beautiful plate of a Hydnum and a Polyporus 
is given. 
The Mycological Articles in Hedwigia, Heft 2 (Band 
XLII, 28 Marz 1903), are as follows:—Zur Pilzflora der Insel 
Oesel, Tycho Vestergren; Fungi australiensis, P. Hennings; 
Ueber die Uromyces-Arten auf Lupinen, P. Dietel; Beitrag zur 
Kenntnis einiger Phycomyceten, Fr. Bubak. 
The Mycological Articles in Hedwigia, Heft, 3 (Band 
XLII, 9 Mai 1903), are as follows:—Zur Pilzflora der Insel Oesel 
(Schluss), Tycho Vestergren; Beitrage zur Biologie der Uredi- 
neen, W. Bandi; Beitrag zur Pilze Siid-Amerikas, H. et P. 
Sydow; Einige neue japanische Uredineen IV, P. Hennings; 
Beitrag zur Pilzflora des Gouvernements Moskau, P. Hennings. 
The Mycological Articles in Hedwigia, Heft 4 (Band 
XLII, 4 Juli 1903), are as follows:—Beitrage zur Biologie der 
Uredineen (Schluss), W. Bandi; Sphaeroideen aus Thuringen, 
A. Diedicke; Ascomyceten-studien I, H. Rehm; Ueber einige 
Ramularien auf Doldengewachsen, Franz v. Hohnel; Bemerkun- 
gen iiber einige nordamerikanische Uredineen, P. Dietel; Einige 
deutsche Dung bewohnende Ascomyceten, P. Hennings; My- 
kologische Irrtumsquellen, Franz v. Hohnel; and Zwei neue 
Friichte bewohnende Uredineen, P. Hennings. 
Fasciculus hi of Sydow’s Monographia Uredinearum 
was published May 15, 1903. The pp. are 385-592; the list of 
species 596-879. The host plants are the families Umbelliferae 
to Moraceas. Fifteen new species (or varieties) are described, 
of which two belong to North America, namely, Puccinia euphor¬ 
bia intumescens Syd. nov. var., on Euphorbia calyculata (Mex¬ 
ico), and Puccinia gemella Diet. & Holw. n. sp. (in Litt.) on 
Caltha leptosepala (Tacoma, Wash.). The new name Puccinia 
solitaria Syd. replaces Puccinia simplex Peck (nec Koern), and 
