July 1904] Notes from Mycological Literature 
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F. D. Chester and C. O. Smith report in Bulletin 63, 
Del. Agr. Exp. Sta. Feb. 1, 1904, under Notes on Fungous 
Diseases in Delaware, some inoculation experiments with spores 
from pure cultures of Colletotrichum lindemuthianum applied to 
Cucumber, Pumpkin, Squash, Muskmelon, Watermelon, and Bean, 
successful on the last host only. Their conclusion is therefore op¬ 
posed to that of Dr. Halsted (cf. N. J. Exp. Sta. Rep. 1893, 347- 
353 ) who seemed to prove that C. lindemuthianum and C. lagenar- 
ium were interchangeable on the fruits of bean and watermelon, 
these authors regarding the fungi under consideration as two 
distinct species. 
Bruce Fink has furnished descriptions with some il¬ 
lustrations, of twelve varieties of Cladonia fimbriata which are 
either rare in North America or of their distribution little is 
known. See the Bryologist, 7:21-7, PI. Ill, March 1904. Dr. 
Wainio examined the abundant material furnished by Professor 
Fink, and the varieties are presented according to that lichen- 
ologist’s Monograph of the genus Cladonia. By giving figures of 
our more common forms with the descriptions, says the author, 
it is hoped that the student of Lichens will not confuse the 
varieties and assign them to other species so frequently as has 
been done in the past. 
Fl. Tassi publishes several new genera and many new 
names, many of them pertaining to North American Sphseropsi- 
deae, in Bullettino del Laboratorio ed Orto Botanico di Siena, 
Anno Quinto, Fascicolo I-III, 1902, under the title, I generi 
Phyllosticta Pers., Phoma, Fr., Macrophoma (Sacc.) Berk et 
Vogl. e i loro genri analoghi, giusta la legge d’analogia. The new 
genera proposed are as follows: Phyllostictella, Ascochytella, 
Microdiplodia, Diplodinula, Stagonosporella, Stagonosporina, 
Phyllohendersonia, Hendersonulina, Camarosporellum, Hyalothy- 
ridium, and Gymnosphaera. 
Another Disease of Tobacco is reported by F. L. Stev¬ 
ens and W. G. Sackett, under the name of the Granville Tobacco 
Wilt, in N. C. Agr. Exp. Sta. Bulletin 188 (Sept. 1903) being a 
preliminary report, describing the case as studied in Granville 
County, N. C., illustrated by fifteen figures of the affected host 
and suggesting Bacteria as the cause of the trouble, the disease 
said to have spread largely through infected soil. 
Mycetes siculi novi dagli Atti dell" Accademia Giornia 
di Scienze Naturali in Catania (Ser. 4. vol. XVII), by Dr. 
G. Scalia, contains descriptions of about a dozen new species. 
We note among them a new species of Septoria on Solanum ni¬ 
grum, namely, S. solani-nigri Scalia. To species of Solanum here¬ 
tofore have been refered the following Septorias: S. dulcamarae 
Desm.; S. lycopersici Speg.; S. pseudo-quiniae Pat.; S. solanicola 
E. & E.; and S. solanina Speg. 
