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ordinary text-books of bacteriology, but rather to supplement the 
same, giving information where they are silent or misleading. 
That a modest claim is made is indicated by the quotation in the 
preface: “Man would never give anything to the public if he 
waited till he had reached the goal of his undertaking, which is 
ever appearing close at hand and yet slipping farther and farther 
as he draws nearer.” 
Charles E. Fairman publishes the Pyrenomyceteae of 
Orleans County, N. Y., in the Proceedings of the Rochester 
Academy of Science, vol. 4, pp. 165-191, figs. 1-6, Sept. 2, 1905. 
It is a fourth paper in the series of this author on the cellular 
cryptogams of that region. The Nos. are carried from 200 to 
354, notes are given and the following new species are described: 
Lophiostoma imperfecta, Valsaria acericola, Anthostoma aceri- 
num, Melanomma juniperi, and Caryospora cariosa. 
Of the papers published in Bulletin de Societe Imperiale 
des Naturalistes de Moscou, 1904, N. S. tome XVIII, we find the 
following of interest to the mycologists: Nachtraegliche Bemerk- 
ungen zur Verbreitung der Fungi hypogaei in Russland von Fedor 
Bucholdtz. About one and a half dozen species are reported, ac¬ 
companied with notes and comments. 
A NEW EDITION OR RATHER A RECENT REPRINT (1905) of the 
Mushroom Book by Nina L. Marshall, publishers Doubleday, 
Page & Co., contains, in addition to former half-tones also the 
following new illustrations, namely, Amanitopsis strangulata, My- 
cena galericulata, Lepiota granosa, Collybia maculata, Collvbia 
platyphylla, Clitocybe illudens, Agaricus campestris, Cortinarius 
caninus, Cortinarius armillatus, Hydnum coralloides, Clavaria 
ligula, Strobilomyces strobilaceus, Boletus felleus obesus, Boletus 
scaber niveus, Elfvingia fomentaria, Calostoma (four species, col¬ 
ored), Leotia lubrica, Tremellodon gelatinosum, Peziza aurantia 
(colored), Peziza odorata (colored), and Panus strigosus. 
Ernest S. Salmon, On the present Aspect of the Epi¬ 
demic of the American Gooseberry-Mildew in Europe, Jour. 
Roy. Hort. Soc. 29:102-110, Dec. 1904, shows with the aid of a 
map that at about a dozen and a half localities in Ireland and in 
Russia this Fungus occurs. Prof. Rostrup reports it also in Den¬ 
mark. This disease was introduced into Europe from America 
about the year 1900. 
Some Diseases of the Potato, by George Massee, in the 
Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, vol. XXIX, Parts 1-3. 
Dec. 1904, pp. 139-145, is a popular illustrated article dealing; 
with Phytophthora infestans DeBary, Winter-rot (Nectria solani 
Pers.), Black Scab (Oedomyces leproides Trabut), Bacterial Dis¬ 
ease (Bacillus solanacearum Smith), Potato Scab (Sorosporium 
scabies Fisch.). 
