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Journal of Mycology 
[Vol. 11 
the running headline of the plates. For the mvcoloerist the parts 
specially interesting are the report of several species new to the 
State Museum; the following species new to science, namely. 
Boletus atkinsoni, B. nobilis, B. rugosiceps, Clavaria botrytoides, 
C. xanthosperma, Cortinarius heliotropicus, Lactarius brevis, Lac- 
tarius colorascens, Pholiota appendiculata, Hygrophorus laurae 
decipiens; a popular account of eight or nine edible fungi; and 
ten colored plates representing fourteen species. 
A NEW SPECIES OF LEMBOSIA BY WlLLIAM TlTUS HORNE, is 
published in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 32:69-71, 
Feb. 1905. It occurs on green stems of Vanilla planifolia Andr. 
The material was sent by P. H. Rolfs of the U. S. Subtropical 
Laboratory at Miami, Florida, and the species is named Lem- 
bosia rolfsii Horne. 
In Berichte der Schweizerischen Botanischen Gesell- 
vSchaft, Heft XIV, 1904, Ed. Fischer publishes his Fortsetzung 
der Entwicklungsgeschiclitlichen Untersuchungen fiber Rostpilze. 
Previous installments (10 sections) were published in the same 
periodical for 1900, 1901 and 1902. Section 11 is entitled Zur 
Kentniss der Schweizerischen Gymnosporangien, but space is 
wanting here even to summarize the results. The other sections 
pertain to the following: 12, Beitrag zur Kentniss der alpinen 
Weiden-Melampsoreen; and 13, Puccinia orchidearum-digraphidis 
Kleb. 
Rob. Staeger reports interesting Infections-versuche 
mit Gramineen-bewohnenden Claviceps-Arten in the Botanische 
Zeitung 1903, Heft VI-VII, p. 111-158. The material used was 
all collected in Switzerland and the following forms were sep¬ 
arated: 1. Claviceps purpurea on Secale cereale and about fif¬ 
teen other species (including several species of Poa) ; 2. Clavi¬ 
ceps on Glyceria fluitans doubtless identical with Cl. wilsoni Cke.; 
3. Claviceps purpurea on Lolium perenne, L. italicum, L. temu- 
lentum, L. rigidum, and Bromus erctus; 4. Claviceps purpurea 
on Poa annua; Claviceps purpurea on Brachypodium silvaticum; 
and Claciceps microcephala on Phragmites communis, Nardus 
stricta, Molinia coerulea, and Aira caespitosa. 
W. A. Orton, in the Yearbook of the United States 
Department of Agriculture for 1904, published in 1905, con¬ 
tinues his annual notes on the occurrence and distribution of Plant 
Diseases in 1904, this being the sixth installment. Here as else¬ 
where we may see the influence of the weather conditions upon 
epidemics of diseases caused by plant parasites, especially (so the 
author states) in the case of the destructive outbreak of rust in 
cereals, and the relative absence of downy mildews on account 
of drought in the Southern and Eastern States. The arrangement 
of the several diseases in this Report is under the subheads of 
Pome Fruits; Stone Fruits; Small fruits as Citrus, etc.; Field 
