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of Dierckx obtained by cultures but not fully coordinated with 
the previously published forms. 
The articles in Bulletin de la Societe Mycologique 
de France, Tome XXI, 2er Fascicule are as follows: M. Boudier, 
nouvelles especes de Chamignons de France (PI. 3) ; P. Vuille- 
min, Seuratia pinicola, sp. nov. (PI. 4) ; N. Patouillard, Rol- 
landina, nouveau genre de Gymnoascees (PL 5) ; N. Patouillard 
et P. Flariot, Fungorum novorum Decas prima; Maublanc, 
Especes nouvelles; Maublanc, Trichoseptoria fructigena; F. 
•Gueguen. Homologie et evolution du Dictyosporium toruloides 
(pi. 8 et 9) ; V. Harlay, Empoisonnement par Y Amanita phal- 
loides, a Flize (Ardennes). 
Ralph E. Smith has prepared a Bulletin (California 
Agr. Exp. Station, Bulletin No. 165, pp. 1-99, January 1905) on 
Asparagus and Asparagus Rust in California which “represents 
primarily a report to certain asparagus growers, canners and deal¬ 
ers of San Francisco, Sacramento, and adjoining territory, who 
provided a fund of $2,500 for the support of an investigation 
of the Asparagus Rust, a disease which seriously threatened to 
destroy or greatly injure their industry.” The main topics are: 
The Asparagus Rust; History of the Disease in California; 
Nature of the Rust; Cause; The Mycelium; Spore Forms; Na¬ 
ture of the Injury; Amount of Loss; Yearly Life-History; Re¬ 
lation of Natural Condition of the Rust; and the Prevention or 
Control of Asparagus Rust; Rust Parasites. Under the last 
topic are mentioned the Darluca ilium Cast., Tubercularia per- 
sicina Ditt., Cladosporium sp. — “shows no structural difference 
from the ordinary Clad, herbarum Link, a very indefinite species.” 
Diseases of the Apple, Cherry, Peach, Pear and Plum, 
forms Bulletin No. 132, Alabama Agr. Exp. Station, April 1905, 
E. Mead Wilcox — popular accounts for fruit-growers. 
An extended study of the Chemotropism of the Fungi 
by Harry R. Fulton, in the Botanical Laboratory of the Univer¬ 
sity of Missouri, is publishd in the Feb. No. of the Botanical Ga¬ 
zette, 1906. 
J. C. Arthur gives an extended review of Sydow’s Mono- 
graphia Uredinearum with notes upon the Ameican species in 
the January No. of the Journal of Mycology, 1905. “One is 
naturally surprised to find that just twice as many endemic species 
are credited to America as are found in Europe. One-fourth 
of all the species inhabit the Compositae and one-eighth of them 
occur on the Gramineae.” We give a list of those that should be 
made synonyms: 
Puccinia cornigera E. & E. should be made a synonym of P. 
actinellae (Webb.) Syd. 
Puccinia longipes Lagh. should be made a synonym of P. 
vernoniae Schw. 
