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not being correct, for as a matter of fact, “die Dissertatio secunda, 
in der p. 27 Caeoma obtegens Lk. aufgestellt ist, erschien erst 
in 1816, im 7. Bande des Magazins der Gesellschaft naturforsch- 
ender Freunde zu Berlin p. 25-45”; but Persoon published his 
Uredo suaveolens in the year 1796. 
The Report of the State Botanist 1902, Charles H. 
Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Bull. 67:1-194, PI. M, N, 82-4, 1903, 
contains the usual amount of mycological matter. We note 25 
new species and varieties described, mostly the higher fungi; 
under the subhead of Edible Fungi are given popular accounts 
of Tricholoma subacutum Pk., T. radicatum Pk., T. silvaticum 
Pk., Hygrophorus pudorinus Fr., Lactarius luteolus Pk., Lac- 
tarius dulcis (Bull.) Fr., Russula crustosa Pk., and Cantharellus 
dichotomus Pk.; all of these are illustrated in color. 
Successful Cultures with conidia of Cystopus candi- 
dus, as reported by Albert Eberhardt, in the Centralblatt f. Bakt. 
Par. u. Infek. 2. Abt. 10:655-6, 8 Aug. 1903, gave the following 
results: from Capsella bursa-pastoris, on C. bursa-pastoris, 
Lepidium sativum, Iberis amara, Arabis alpina; from Capsella 
heegeri, on C. bursa-pastoris, Lepidium sativum; from Lepidium 
sativum, on L. sativum, Capsella bursa-pastoris; from Brassica 
rapa, on B. rapa, B. oleracea, B. nigra, Sinapis arvensia, Diplo- 
taxis tenuifolia; from Arabis alpina, on A. alpina, A. hirsuta, 
A. turrita, Lepidium sativum, Iberis amara, Cardamine pratensis, 
C. amara, Capsella bursa-pastoris, Senebiera coronopus. 
The articles of special interest to mycologists in Cen¬ 
tralblatt f. Bakt. Par. Infekt. Zweite Ab., Bd. X, 1903, are: 
Miiller-Thurgau, Der rote Brenner des Weinstockes; J. Ritzema 
Bos, Botrytis parasitica und Tulpenkrankheit; Beauaverie et 
Guilliermond, Etude sur le Structure der Botrytis cinerea; Ernst 
Jacky, Der Chrysanthemum-Rost, II; Neger, Neue Beobach- 
tungen fiber des spontane Freiwerden der Erysipheen-frucht- 
korper; P. Magnus, Kurze Bemerkung zur Biologie des Chry- 
santhemumrostes; Oscar Mayus, Die Peridienzellen der Uredi- 
neen; Eberhardt, Zur Biologie von Cystopus candidus; Oster- 
walder, Peronospora auf Rheum undulatum; Jordi, Kulturver- 
suche mit Papilionaceen bewohnenden Rostpilzen. 
Mycological articles of considerable interest pub¬ 
lished in the Zeitschrift fiir Pflanzenkrankheiten during 1903 are: 
D. Iwanowski, Ueber die Mosaik-krankheit der Tabakspflanze; 
P. Hennings, Einige Beobachtungen fiber das Gesunden Pilz- 
kranker Pflanzen bei veninderten Kultur-Verhaltnissen; J. 
Ritzema Bos, Der Brand der Narzissenblatter [Heterosporium 
gracile Sacc., parasitic] ; C. J. J. van Hall, Das Faulen der jun- 
gen Schosslinge und Rhizome von Iris florentina und Iris ger- 
manica [Bacillus omnivorum, etc.] ; E. Marchal, Die wesent- 
