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Journal of Mycology 
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Professor M. C. Potter Gives in the Journal of the 
Board of Agriculture, 9 .*320, pi. IV, Dec. 1902, an account of 
a new Potato Disease, occurring in England, caused by Chryso- 
phlyctis endobiotica (Chytridinese) described by Schilberszky in 
1896, first found in Hungary. The affected tubers present large 
convoluted irregular tumour-like swellings. The parasite appears 
in the diseased tissues as a globular protoplasmic mass (plasmo- 
dium), destitute of cell-wall and without any trace of mycelium. 
Mycological Notes, No. 13, (pp. 121-132) C. G. Lloyd, 
Cincinnati, Ohio, was issued Feb. 1903. The notes are 214-231, 
devoted to Catastoma (3 species), Mitremyces (3 species, all 
figured), and miscellaneous matters. 
In Hedwigia, Band XLII, Heft 2, pp. 76-96, is published 
by Tycho Vestergren an article entitled Zur Pilzflora der Insel 
Oesel, which is an enumeration of 290 species of Fungi collected 
during a six-weeks collecting trip. The groups most largely rep¬ 
resented are Uredinese (79 species), Ustilaginese (12 species), 
Peronosporacese (22 species), Pyrenomycetes (41 species), Dis- 
comycetes (25 species), Sphraeropsidese (46 species), and Hypho- 
mycetes (48 species). Descriptions of ten new species are given. 
Bacteriology for High Schools, first paper, by W. D. 
Frost and E. G. Hastings, is published in the Journal of Ap¬ 
plied Microscopy and Laboratory Methods (6:2205-8, March 
1903). The apparatus needed is described and the list of needed 
chemicals given. Such articles by specialists are to be highly 
commended. The few better equipped High Schools could well 
undertake work of this kind — but perhaps putting too much col¬ 
lege work into them even should not be encouraged. 
One short Mycological article, namely, Addenda ad 
Floram Sardoam by S. Belli [list and the description of a new 
species] is given in the Bulletino della Societa Botanica Italiana 
for May and June (No. 5-6, 1903). 
The articles contained in the September (1903) No. 
of Annales Mycologici are as follows: Hohnel, Mycologische 
Fragmente; Dietel, Ueber die Teleutosporenform von Uredo 
laeviuscula D. et H. und fiber Melampsora fagi D. et Neg.; Maire 
et Saccardo, Sur un nouveau genre de Phacidiacees; Vuilleman, 
Le Syncephalus adunca sp. nov. et la serie des cornutae; Sac¬ 
cardo e Traverso, Contribuzione alia Flora micologica della Sar¬ 
degna. 
Dr. J. J. Davis has Distributed his Third Supplemen¬ 
tary List of parasitic Fungi of Wisconsin, as a reprint from the 
Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and 
Letters, Vol. XIV, part I. He gives many additional hosts (pp. 
84-93) and a list (p. 93 et seq.) of species not recorded in the 
