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the same laws for nomenclature as are found serviceable for 
other plants, that is to say, the earliest name applied to a species 
is to be retained, even if given to an imperfect form or early 
stage in the cycle of development. 
Professor George F. Atkinson gives in the Plant World 
for September and October, 1905, Outlines for the observation of 
some of the more common Fungi, such as Black Mould, Downy 
Mildews, White Rust, True Rusts, the Smuts, Puffballs, Earth - 
stars, Agarics, Ink-caps, Amanitas, Lepiotas, Polypori, Boleti, 
Clavarias, Helvellas, Powdery Mildews, and the Black Fungi. 
Melville T. Cook gives a very full (popular) account of 
plant diseases caused by parasitic fungi (and insects) in Cuba 
for the past year in his Informe del Departmento de Patologia 
Vegetal, the article constituting pp. 147-207 inclusive of the Primer 
Informe Anual de la Estacion Central Agronomica de Cuba, 1904- 
5. Some of the species especially mentioned are Colletotrichum 
gleosporioides Penzig, Cladosporium elegans Penzig, Ophi- 
onectria coccicola E. & E., Ustilago zeae (Beckm.) Ung., Puc- 
cinia sorghi Schw., Cercospora gossypina Cke. (esta reconocido 
como el primer estado de Mycosphaerella gossypina [Cke.] 
Earle), Melanconium sacchari, Leptosphaeria sacchari, Cerco¬ 
spora personata (B. & C.) Ellis, Uromyces arachnidis P. Henn., 
Uredo fici Cast., Septoria licopersici Speg., Cladosporium fulvum 
Cke., Phyllosticta hortorum. 
F. S. Earle, under the title Algunos ITongos Cubanos, in 
Primer Informe Anual de la Estacion Central Agronomico de 
Cuba, D225-246, I Junio 1906, gives diagnosis in Spanish of the 
following new Cuban species: Pocillaria [Lentinus] reflexa, Po. 
vestida, Po. cinnamomea, Po. palmeri, Po. simulans, Phyllotus 
[Pleurotus] imbricatus, Ph. hygrophanus, Geopetalum [Pleuro- 
tus] eugeniae, Ge. album, Ge. brunescens, Crepidotus [Pleuro¬ 
tus] lentinoides, Galera simulans, Ga. grisea, Ga. cubensis, Gym- 
nochilus [Hypholoma] flocculosus, Gy. campestris, Gy. musae, 
Gy. roystoniae, Gy. caespitosus Stropharia cubensis, Str. floc- 
cosa, Pholiotina [Pholiota] musae, and Pholiota cubenses. 
These are preceded by half a dozen pages of general discussion of 
the group and particularly of the work on the Cuban Fungi to 
date. The first publication was by Montague in 1842, who noted 
113 species. Charles Wright from 1856 to 1867 collected some 
fungi which were examined by Dr. M. A. Custer, who sent part 
of them to Rev. J. M. Berkley. This was the basis of the Fungi 
cubensis, 1859, in the Journal of the Linnaean Society. Late 
collectors named are L. M. Underwood, W. A. Murrill and F. 
S. Earle. 
The Articles in Annales Mycologici, Vol. IV, No. 3, Juni 
1906, are: Legarde, J., Contribution a l’Etude des Discomvcetes 
