March 1906 ] Notes from Mycological Literature 85 * 
Edible Fungi is the title of a popular article with a 
few text illustrations by M. C. Cooke on pp. 495-510 of the Jour¬ 
nal of the Royal Horticultural Society, vol. XXVIII, May 1904. 
F. S. Earle's Mycological Studies, II, in the Bulletin of 
the New York Botanical Garden, 3: (289)-(312), 14 April 1905, 
issued first as a Separate 30 June 1904, consists of New Species 
of West-American Fungi and New Tropical Fungi mostly from 
Porto Rico. The first contains 33 species and the second 18 
species. In the latter the genus Meliola received most species, 
ten new forms described. 
Annales Mycologici, vol. Ill, No. 5, October 1905, con¬ 
tains the following: Jaap, Otto, Beitrage zur Pilzflora von 
Mecklenburg; Hohnel, Franz v., Mycologische Fragmente; 
Rehm, Ascomycetes exs. Fasc. 35; Sydow, Mycotheca germanica 
Fasc. VIII-IX (No. 351-450) ; Vuillemin, P., Recherches sur les 
Champignons parasites des feuilles de Tilleul; Lind, J., Ueber 
einige neue und bekannte Pilze; Farneti, Rodolfo, Erpete fur- 
furacea delle pere; Bucholtz, Fedor, Verzeichnis der bisher in den 
Ostseeprovinzen Russlands bekannt gewordenen Puccinia-Arten; 
Neue Literatur; Referate und kritische Besprechungen. 
E. W. D. Holway, North American Uredineae, gives in 
Annales Mycologici for Feb. 1905 [3:20-4] descriptions of the 
following species: Puccinia exasperans (Mexico), P. gouaniae 
(Cuba), P. aequinoctialis (Cuba), P. distorta (Mexico), P. fu- 
mosa (Mexico), also critical notes on several other interesting 
species — saying that Sydow is in error in giving a new name 
to Puccinia kansensis (P. buchloes 1903) ; P. buchloes Schofield 
was published in 1902, a different species; Puccinia scandica 
Johans, hitherto known only from the alpine regions of Sweden, 
has been collected in Utah (A. O. Garrett) and in Washington 
(W. N. Suksdorf). 
AMERICAN MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY, NEW ORLEANS 
MEETING, JANUARY 1, 1906. 
The American Mycological Society held its third annual 
meeting in connection with the American Association for the Ad¬ 
vancement of Science at New Orleans, January 1, 1906. 
In the absence of the President, Prof. Charles H. Peck, the 
Vice-President, Prof. F. S. Earle, presided. 
The new constitution recommended by the committees of the 
Botanical Society of America, the Society for Plant Morphology 
and Physiology, and the American Mycological Society, as a basis 
for the union of the three societies, was adopted and the present 
