Oct. 1903] Notes from Mycological Literature 
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species were tried by the “guessing method” and the failures re¬ 
ported. Twelve species of rusts were successfully grown that 
have been studied with success before, reported previously by 
Arthur and others; some additional hosts are given. Successful 
cultures were made establishing the aecidial and teleutosporic as¬ 
sociation, heretofore unknown, of seven heteroecious grass and 
sedge Rusts. These are Uromyces aristidae E. & E., aecidium 
on Plantago rugelii Dec.; Puccinia jamesiana (Pk.) Arth., 
aecidium on Asclepias incarnata L. and A. syriaca L.; Puccinia 
impatientis (Schw.) Arth., aecidium on Impatiens aurea Muhl.; 
Puccinia subnitens Diet., aecidium on Chenopodium album L.; 
Puccinia amphigena Diet., aecidium on Smilax herbacea L. and S. 
hispida Muhl.; Puccinia simillima Arth., aecidium on Anemone 
canadensis L.; and Puccinia caricis-solidaginis Arth., aecidium 
on Solidago canadensis L., S. serotina Ait., S. caesia L., S. ulmi- 
folia Muhl, and S. rigida L. 
• A Key to the North American Species of Stropharia 
— 12 in number — is given by Prof. F. S. Earle in Torreya, 3 '.24, 
Feb. 1903. It is on the dichotomal plan, similar to the keys 
of several groups prepared by the same author last year, and 
previously noticed in these Notes. 
Raspberry Cane Blight and Raspberry Yellows is the 
title of a Bulletin (N. Y. Agr. Exp. Sta. 226:331-366. Dec. 
1902) by F. C. Stewart and H. J. Eustace. The Blight caused 
by Coniothyrium (possibly C. fuckelii Sacc.) not by a Phoma 
as previously reported by the authors. The cause of the Yel¬ 
lows is undetermined. 
Hermann Von Schrenk is the Author of an Exhaus¬ 
tive Paper on A Disease of the White Ash Caused by Polyporus 
fraxinophilus, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bureau PI. Industry, Bull. 32: 
1-20, PI. I-V. 28 Feb., 1903. The divisions of the subject are 
geographical distribution, susceptibility to this disease, method 
of attack, description of diseased wood, the sporophore, micro¬ 
scopic changes in the wood, growth of the fungus in dead wood, 
remedies, description of the five plates. 
Bulletin de la Societe Mycologuique de France, Tome 
XIX, ler Fascicule, contains the following original articles: Rech- 
erches sur la germination des spores dans le Saccharomyces lud- 
wigii Hansen, PI. I (Guilliermond) ; Sur le Sterigmatocystis 
pseudonigra (Costantin et Lucet) ; Especes critiques d’Agari- 
cenees (Godfrin) ; Remarques sun la morphologie et le devel- 
oppement de 1 ’ Plilminsporium macrocarpum Grev., PI. II et III, 
(F. Gueguen) ; Du role des Ecoles normales departmentales au 
point de vue de Y enseignement de la Mycologie pratique (J. 
Costantin). 
