Journal of Mycology 
A Periodical Devoted to North American Mycology. Issued 'Bi¬ 
monthly; January , March , May , July , September and November 
Price , $2.00 per Year. To Foreign Subscribers $ 2 . 2 5 . Edited and 
Published by ^ ^ KELLERMAN, PH. D ., COLUMBUS, OHIO. 
NOTES. 
Mycologists will, it is hoped, find the compilation of 
New Genera of Fungi very useful — even this first installment 
which represents the list for the period of three years since 1900. 
It is intended by the compilers to furnish Supplements from time 
to time; presently these exact reprints of the author’s diagnoses 
will doubtless be found convenient for workers. 
Attention may be called to the Separate or Reprint of the 
New Genera of Fungi, printed on alternate pages. The blank 
page can be used to insert notes, or for a time to receive other 
reprinted descriptions in their proper order. But the main pur¬ 
pose of this arrangement is to allow cutting up for pasting on 
library cards. The card system in general is indispensable on 
the part of the working mycologist. The expense of reprinting 
requires in this case that the price of the Separate be fixed at 75 
cents. _ 
The concluding portion of the first installment of New Gen¬ 
era will appear in the September Journal. 
Comments by mycologists are invited relative to the various 
points made by Saccardo in his timely and excellent De Diagnos- 
tica et Nomenclatura Mycologica, the translation of which was 
published in the last number of the Journal. Here I will sug¬ 
gest the infeasability — I may add the non-necessity — of using 
the character, in giving dimensions in length and breadth 
of microscopic organs. In the first place, “spores 6 x 5 /*” could 
scarcely be misinterpreted even by the beginner — and it is to be 
doubted whether the assertion is justified, namely, that this char¬ 
acter between the two numbers is “made use of by mathematic¬ 
ians in another sense.” It certainly is as plain as its synonym, 
or translation in English, i. e., “by,” and readily understood with¬ 
out explanation — scarcely the case if the new character is used. 
In the second place, printing offices do not possess the aforesaid 
character — the engraver being visited to secure the same for use 
last month, this justifying and emphasizing the contention I am 
making. _ 
The next number of the Journal will not post-date nor an¬ 
tedate its appearance, but be received by the subscribers the latter 
part of September. 
Journal of Mycology, Vol. 10, pp. 161-224, Issued June 24, 1904. 
