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Journal of Mycology 
[Vol. 10 
Three Edible Toadstools, namely, Coprinus micaceus, C. 
atramentarius, and C. comatus, forms the subject of a popular and 
illustrated Bulletin (No. 98) issued by the Indiana Agricultural 
Experiment Station Feb. 1904, author J. C. Arthur. 
The Ohio Mycological Bulletin, a 4-page Leaflet, illus¬ 
trated, was issued by W. A. Kellerman during 1903, 12 Nos., 
being a part of the “University Bulletin” published by the Ohio 
State University, Columbus, Ohio. Price 10 cents a year — the 
remaining copies of the first volume, 1903, (Nos. 1-12) 5 ° cents. 
The Leaflet is to be continued under the name of Mycological 
Bulletin during 1904, devoted as heretofore to illustrations of the 
Mushrooms and Toadstools. 
A list of 103 Slime Moulds of Pennsylvania is given by 
D. R. Sumstine in Torreya, 4:36-8, Mar. 1904. Only about twice 
this number of species have been reported for the United States. 
Those reported in McBride’s North American Slime Moulds and 
those noted in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia are included in 
this list in addition to the 34 of the author’s herbarium. 
Mycological articles in the Comptes Rendus des Seances de 
1 ’Academie des Sciences, Vol. 137 (last half of 1903) are: Mag- 
nin et Viala, Sur la Variation du Bornetina corium suivant la 
nature des milieux; Vuillemin, Une Acrasiee bacteriophage, Sur 
une double fusion des membranes dans la zygaspore des Mucori- 
nees; Delacroix, Sur une Maladie bacterienne du tabac, le chancre 
ou anthracnose (Bacillus aeruginosus n. sp.), Sur la jaunesse de 
la betterave; maladie bacterienne; Dangeard, Sur le genre Asco- 
desmis; Eriksson, Sur l’appareil vegetatif de la rouille jaune des 
Cereales; Pinoy, Necessite d’une symbiose microbienne pour ob- 
tenir la culture Myxomcetes; Guillermond, Contribution a l’etude 
cytologique des Ascomycetes. 
PERSONAL NOTES AND NEWS. 
Professor Clements of the University of' Nebraska has be¬ 
gun work on the systematic botany of the Lichens of North 
America. He is examining material and collecting data, and does 
not intend to begin publication for some years. Collectors of 
lichens may help in this work by sending new material to him. 
Professor PIeald of the University of Nebraska has taken 
up the critical study of the so-called “crown gall” of the rasp¬ 
berry. _ 
A CORRESPONDENT offers JOURNAL OF MYCOLOGY Vols. 2.J 
inclusive for sale, at $10.00; Vol. 2 lacks Nos. 8-12; two sets of 
Vols. 5 and 6 are included in the offer — one volume being bound. 
Address editor of this Journal. 
