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Journal of Mycology 
[Vol. 10 
Bullettino del Laboratorio ed Orto Botanico della Uni- 
versita di Siena, Anno VI. Fasc. I.-VI., includes: Origine e 
sviluppo delle Leptostromaceae e loro rapporti con le famiglie 
affine, i consei trav. gr. (FI. Tassi) ; Nuovi Micromiceti (FI. 
Tassi) ; Micologia della Provincia senese 12a publicazione (FI. 
Tassi) ; La Ruggine dei Crisantemi ‘Puccinia chrysanthemi Roze’ 
(FI. Tassi) ; Indice generale dei Volumi I.-VI. 
Fl. Tassi Gives an Exhaustive Account of the Leptos- 
tromacevE, origin and development, in the Bull, del Lab. ed Orto 
Botan. della Universita di Siena, 6:3-124, PL I-VI, 1904, the 
full title of the paper, which is printed in Italian, being Origine e 
Sviluppo delle Leptostromaceae e loro rapporti con le famiglie 
affine. Notes are given of the various genera and species, also 
listed the material examined, a half dozen new forms or new 
names proposed, one new genus {Giulia), synoptical key to 26 
genera, and table of the species with demonstrated or supposed 
conection with the Ascomycetes. The American species in the 
latter list, are Crandallia juncicola Ell. & Sacc. (to Duplicaria 
acuminata E. & E.), Melasmium quercuum Atks. (to Rhytisma 
tostum B. & C. (?), Leptothyrella langloisii (E. & E.) Sacc. (to 
Asterina sp..). 
The Cosmopolitan Character of most Species of the 
Gasteromycetes, many forms of which group have been so long 
known to botanists, suggests special attention to a list of eight 
species that were published as new by L. Hollos, in Vol. XIX. of 
Mathematische und Naturwissenschaftliche Berichte aus Ungarn. 
Mr. Lloyd has already noted his own opinion as to the Geaster 
pseudostriatus Hollos n. sp. — regarding it as G. asper Mich.; 
and Geaster useudolimbatus Hollos n. sp. he identifies as G. lim- 
batus Fr. Hollos’ entire list is as follows: (1) Geaster pseu¬ 
dostriatus, (2) G. hungaricus, (3) G. pseudolimbatus, (4) Cal- 
vatia tatrensis, (5) C. hungarica, (6) Lycoperdon hungaricum, 
(7) L. pseudocepseforme, (8) Bovista hungarica. 
The Nuovi Micromiceti by Fl. Tassi in the Bullettino del 
Laboratorio ed Orto Botanica della R. Universita di Siena, 6:125- 
7, 1904, contains descriptions of eleven species. Of these one is 
American, namely, Sphseropsis hamamelidih Fl. Tassi, n. sp., hab. 
in cortice Hamamelidis virginicse, Virginia, Amer. bor. 1903. 
Frederick D. Chester Treats Exhaustively the Sub¬ 
ject of the Bacteriological Analysis of Soils in Bulletin 65, 
Delaware College Agricultural Experiment Station, March 1, 
1904. We cite as an example of the species obtained from a sam¬ 
ple of soil drawn May 11, 1903, from a grape vineyard, (this 
being a sandy loam and under good state of cultivation), the fol¬ 
lowing: B. ellenbachiensis Caron, B. tumescens Zopf., B. sp. 
indet., B. alcalescens Ford. An earlier analysis from experiment 
