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ology of these species, most of the results however simply con¬ 
firming previous determinations. As Dietel formerly, so here 
Jordi, found that in case of Uromyces hedysari-obscuri aecidi- 
ospores may produce aecidia — “es ergiebt sich daraus ferner, 
dass die Aecidiosporen im stande sind, teils wieder Aecidien, teils 
direkt Teleutosporenlager zu bilden...” 
D. McAlpine gives an account with illustrations of 
Ophiobolus graminis Sacc. and Hendersonia graminis n. sp., 
parasitic on and destructive to wheat, being the disease known 
as “Take all and White-heads in Wheat”. The publication is 
Bulletin No. 9, Department of Agriculture, Victoria. It occurs 
also in other countries “and has recently been discovered in 
America. . . . Cordley describes a disease occurring in Ore¬ 
gon U. S. A., which has all the characteristics of this one, al¬ 
though only the fungus mycelium has been found.” 
Descriptio et adumbratio microscopio-analytica Fun- 
gorum is the title of a work, auctore D. Romano Adolpho Hed- 
wigio, that unfortunately yet remains unpublished, sometimes 
cited [“Hedw. f. Fung, ined.”] by DeCandolle in Flore Fran- 
caise, 1805, and the circumstances relating thereto so far as 
known, are detailed by J. C. Arthur under the title, An inter¬ 
esting unpublished Work on Fungi, Torreya, 4:21-3, Feb. 1904. 
Hedwig, son of the elder Hedwig in honor of whom the journal 
Hedwigia was named, was professor of Botany at Leipzig, and 
prepared a work on parasitic fungi “with a true talent” which 
A. P. DeCandolle undertook (unsuccessfully) to have published 
in Paris. Dr. Arthur who recently examined the manuscript 
says: — “It is a pity that so admirable a piece of scientific work 
should have met such an untoward fate. Even after a hundred 
years its publication would be a distinct gain to science.” 
The Mycological Articles in Hedwigia, Band XLII, 
Heft 6, 1903, are as follows: Hugo Gluck, Beitrage zur Flech- 
tenflora Heidelbergs (Schluss) ; P. Hennings, Ueber einige in- 
teressantere deutsche Hutpilze [perhaps a new species], Einige 
im Berliner Botanischen Garten 1903 gesammelte neue Pilze [17 
new species], Biatorellina P. Henn, n. gen. Patellariacearum, 
Squamotubera P. Henn. n. gen. Xylariacearum, Ein stark phos- 
phorescierender javanischer Agaricus (Mycena illuminans P. 
Henn. n. sp.), Ein Sklerotien-Blatterpilz, Naucoria tuberosa P. 
Henn. n. sp. ad inter; P. Magnus, Ein neues Helminthosporium, 
Bemerkungen zur Benennung einiger Uredineen in P. und H. 
Sydow’s Monographia Uredinearum. 
P. Magnus, in Beiblatt zur Hedwigia, 42: (305), 28 Dec. 
1903, shows that Sydow’s use of Puccinia obtegens (Lk.) Tul. 
in place of P. suaveolens (Pers.) Rostr. for the rust on Carduus 
arvense, is not justified. Link’s name Caeoma obtegens did not 
appear until 1816 — Sydow’s citation “Lk. Obs. II. p. 27 (1791)” 
