July 1906] Notes from Mycological Literature 
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it is a weak parasite (as previously claimed by Atkinson) and 
only attacks plants which are first debilitated by the presence 
of another fungus. The var. nivea (apparently) of N. vasin- 
fecta was found as a wilt disease in the ginseng gardens of 
Missouri. The entrance seems to depend upon an anthracnose 
caused by Vermicularia dematium. 
The Society of American Bacteriologists held the sev¬ 
enth annual meeting at the University of Michigan, Dec. 28-29, 
1905. The report of the secretary, F. P. Gorham in Science N. 
S. 23 :205-221, Feb. 9, 1906, presents a long list of papers and 
abstracts of same — the following seeming to be of systematic 
trend: Lactic Acid Bacteria, W. M. Esten; The Microscopic 
Estimate of Bacteria in Milk, Francis H. Slack; Kinds of Bac¬ 
teria Concerned in Souring Milk, P. G. Heinemann; Bacteria 
of the Root Nodules of the Leguminosae, Karl F. Kellerman and 
T. D. Beckwith. 
Two Mycological articles were read before the Botanical 
Society of America at the New Orleans Meeting, according to 
the report of the Secretary, William Trelease, Science N. S. Vol. 
XXIII, Feb. 9, 1906, pp. 221-2. They were as follows: J. C. 
Arthur, Cultures of Uredineae in 1905; and G. F. Atkinson, The 
Development of Ithyphallus impudicus (L.) Fries, from France. 
Dr. N. M. Glatfelter gives a Preliminary list of Fligher 
Fungi collected in the vicinity of St. Louis, Mo., from 1808 
to 1905 in the Transactions of the Academy of Science at St. 
Louis, Vol. XVI, No. 4. The locality, date of occurrence and 
miscellaneous observations, besides the spore measurements in 
all cases, are given. About 500 species are listed. Amanita has 
12 representatives, Amanitopsis 6, Lepiota 25, Tricholoma 8, 
Clitocybe 16, Pleurotus 8, Collybia 14, Mycena 10, and many 
others are equally well represented. 
The Secretary’s Report (by Francis E. Lloyd) of Sec. G. 
[Botany] American Association for the Advancement of Sci¬ 
ence, New Orleans, gives the following mycological papers (see 
Science N. S. 23 1201-4, Feb. 4, 1906) : Development of Armii- 
laria mellea, and of Agaricus campestris, Geo. F. Atkinson; 
North American Species of Peridermium, J. C. Arthur and F. 
D. Kern. The following were presented at a joint meeting of 
the Section and the American Mycological Society: Some rea - 
sons for desiring a better classification of the Uredinales, J. C. 
Arthur; Uredineae of the Gulf States, S. M. Tracy; North 
American Gill Fungi, F. S. Earle; Lichens and recent con¬ 
ception of Species, Bruce Fink; Cultures of Colletotrichum and 
Gloeosporium, P. H. Rolfs; The Affinities of the Fungus of 
Lolium temulentum, E. M. Freeman; Peridermium cerebrum 
Peck and Cronartium quercuum (Berk.), C. L. Shear; Ramu- 
