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Journal of Mycology 
[Vol. 10 
A SUMPTUOUS VOLUME AND VERY IMPORTANT PUBLICATION 
on Alaskan Cryptogamic Botany, being the 5th of the Harri- 
man Alaska Expedition with cooperation of Washington Academy 
of Sciences, has just been issued by Doubleday, Page & Company, 
New York, 1904. It covers 424 pages, contains 44 plates both 
lithographic and heliotypic, and is devoted to the Fungi (Saccardo, 
Peck, and Trelease; pp. 11-62); Lichens (Clara E. Cummings; 
pp. 65-152) ; Algae (De Alton Saunders; pp. 163-250) ; Mosses 
(Cardot and Theriot; pp. 251-328) ; Sphagnums (Trelease; pp. 
329-338) ; Hepaticae (Evans; pp. 339-372) ; Pteridophytes (Tre¬ 
lease; pp. 373398). The introduction occupies pages 1-10, and 
the Index 399-424. The volume was prepared under the general 
direction of Professor Trelease. For review of parts pertaining 
to the Fungi, and the Lichens, see other paragraphs. 
C. G. Lloyd's Mycological Notes No. 16, issued March 
1904, contains an interesting account of his year’s travel and 
study in Europe, with notes relative to several eminent mycolo¬ 
gists, as Persoon, Romell, Elias Fries, Patouillard, Hariot, and 
Boudier. Five pages are devoted to a discussion, langue fran- 
qaise, of the genus Lycoperdon in Europe; still another emphatic 
word on Nomenclature is added, and Notes on specimens in 
Fries’ Herbarium. 
Birds and Nature, an illustrated monthly magazine, 
has published very good plates in color photography of some of 
the common Mushrooms. In Vol. 14, 1903, we note Amanita the 
Fly Mushroom, the Chantarelle, Glistening Coprinus, The Mush¬ 
room, the Green Russula, the Masked Tricholoma. 
A beautiful golden yellow LIydnum has been described 
as Hydnum earleanum by D. R. Sumstine in the April No. of Tor- 
reya (1904). It is a resupinate form, spines 3-6 mm. long, golden 
yellow, on the under side of a decorticated log ( Ostrya virgin - 
iana ?), in Armstrong County, Pa. 
Ann ales Mycologici, vol. ii, Marz 1904, contains the fol¬ 
lowing articles: Milesi e Traverso, Saggio di una monografia 
del genere Triphragmium; Tranzschal, Ueber auf Grund von 
irrtiimlicher Bestimmung der Nahrpflanzen aufgestellte Pucci- 
nien-Arten; Sydow, Novae fungorum Species; Rehm, Asco- 
mycetes Americae borealis, I; Diedicke, Fungi imperfecti aus 
Thuringen ; Guilliermond, Sur le noyau de la levure; Sydow, 
Mycotheca germanica Fasc. Ill, IV; Saccardo, De diagnostica et 
nomenclatura mycologia, Admonite quaedam. 
New Species of Fungi, 16 species, are described in the Bul¬ 
letin of the Torrey Botanical Club, April 1904, by Charles H. 
Peck. They are included in the genera Lepiota, Tricholoma, 
Collybia, Russula, Clitopilus, Flammula, Agaricus, Marasmius, 
Clavaria and Helvella. The type localities include the States of 
