Journal of Mycology 
VOLUME 12-MARCH 1906 
TABLE OF CONTENTS 
Kellerman — Obituary, J. B. Ellis. . 41 
Batbs — Rust Notes for 1905 . 45 
Saccardo — Micromycetes Americani Novi. 47 
Bubak — Neue Pilze aus Nord America. 52 
Bessey — Dilophospora Alopecuri. 57 
Sumstine — Pleurotus Hollandianus Sp. Nov. 59 
Sumstine — Note on Wynnea Americana. 59 
Ricker — Second Supplement to New Genera. 60 
Kellerman — Index to North American Mycology. 67 
Kellerman — Notes from Mycological Literature XVIII. 80 
Shear — American Mycological Society. 87 
Editor’s Notes. 88 
OBITUARY-JOB BICKNELL ELLIS. 
W. A. KELLERMAN. 
Mr. J. B. Ellis, one of the former editors of this Journal, 
passed away December 30, 1905. When the present editor pro¬ 
posed to publish a Journal of Mycology in 1885 Mr. Ellis heartily 
joined in the enterprise and agreed to furnish practically all the 
copy for the unpretentious periodical. Though three names are 
printed as editors on the title page of the first four volumes it 
was Mr. Ellis alone who furnished most of the articles and gave 
the character to the Journal. It was then, as it is now, largely 
taxonomic and devoted to the American Fungi. The pages record 
incidentally a wonderful expansion of American Mycology during 
the past two decades. Mr. Ellis did more than any other botanist 
during the period of his mycological activity toward making 
known the parasitic fungi of the United States. The Journal of 
Mycology was an avenue of publication not only for his many 
species; but the monographs published in the first four volumes 
of the Journal made it possible for many botanists to undertake 
the study of the parasitic species. We estimate highly the influ¬ 
ence this exerted on the development of American Mycology. 
His multitudes of new species were of course not all published in 
this periodical — his contributions appearing in great number in 
the Botanical Gazette, Torrey Bulletin, American Naturalist, Pro- 
