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Cheney, Tr. Wis. Acad. 10:69 Oct. 1895. 
Tubeuf-Smith, Diseases of Plants, 411. 1897. 
Ell. & Ev. Fling. Columb. 1295 . May 1898. 
Barthol. Tr. Kans. Acad. 16:186. June 1899. 
Patterson, Bull U. S. Agr. PI. Industry 8:8. 3 Feb. 1902. 
Two fungi growing in holes made by wood-boring insects, 
by Perley Spaulding, occupies pp. 73-77, plates 25-27, 15th An¬ 
nual Report of the Missouri Botanical Garden. The species 
referred to are Flammula sapineus and Claudopus nidulans. 
John L. Sheldon makes a Report on Plant Diseases 
of West Virginia [Bulletin 96, Agr. Exp. Sta. June 30, 1905]; 
giving in popular language short account of several diseases, 
with a half dozen half-tone plates. 
From the Office of Experiment Stations, the U. S. 
Department of Agriculture issues as Farmers’ Institute Lecture 
No 2, A Syllabus of Illustrated Lecture on Potato Diseases and 
their treatment, authors F. C. Steward and IT. J. Eustace. The 
lecture is to be accompanied with 47 lantern views — marginal 
numbers on the page corresponding to the slides, the legends 
given in the Appendix. 
In an article in Science, N. S., Vol. XX, No. 497, pp. 
55-6, July 8, 1904, entitled Vitality of Pseudomonas campestris 
(Pam.) Smith on cabbage seed the writers say that they have 
found that P. campestris may live on dry cabbage seed for at least 
ten months. 
C. A. J. A. OuDEMANS CONTINUES HIS CONTRIBUTIONS a la 
Flore Mycoligique der Pays-bas (XX)-Overdr. Ned. Kr. Arch. 
3e Ser. II, 4. Supplement, pp. 1077-1132, and pi. XI-XIII. In¬ 
teresting new species are the following: Entyloma lini on 
Linum usitatissimum; Phyllosticta acoricola n. n. for Phoma 
acori Cooke; Rhabdospora phlogis on Phlox drummondi; Stil- 
bospora robiniae on Rabinia pseudacacia; Stigmella atriplicis 
on Atriplex hortense. 
Considering the wide distribution of the banana plant 
in tropical countries throughout the world, it is quite remark¬ 
able that it has so very few serious enemies in the form of in¬ 
sects and fungi says J. E. Higgins in Bulletin No. 7, Hawaii 
Agr. Exp. Station, Honolulu, 1904. Three fungi are given 
which prey upon this plant, 1st, Banana Anthracnose (Gloeo- 
sporium musarum Cke. & Massee) ; 2nd, Marasmius semiustus 
B. & C.; 3rd, Fusarium sp. 
Preliminary Diagnosis of New species of Laboulbeni- 
aceae, — VI, by Roland Thaxter, forms No. 11, Vol. XLI, 
Proceedings of the American Academy of Sciences, July 1905. 
“With the present contribution, which comprises such new forms 
of Laboulbeniaceae as have accumulated during the past two 
