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scribed, and the first appearance of the name in print was in 
Curtis’s List of the Fungi in the Geological and Natural His¬ 
tory Survey of North Carolina published in 1867. It is not sur¬ 
prising, therefore, that so little being known. . . We think it 
susceptible of proof, that this plant was first published by Curtis 
as Agaricus fabaceus Berk., then this determination not proving 
satisfactory, it was united by Ravenel with Ag. campestris Linn.; 
dissatisfaction still existing it was finally segregated as Agaricus 
amygdalinus by Curtis. . . . From the foregoing it would 
seem that the geographical distribution of Ag. amygdalinus 
would be from Massachusetts to Texas. . . . Until, therefore, 
it is conclusively proved that Ag. amygdalinus and Ag. fabaceus 
are one and the same species, it is proper to confine the descrip¬ 
tion to Ag. fabaceus strictly to the words of Berkeley, and no 
argument for the identity of these species, based on similarity 
of taste and odor, drawn from Curtis’s statement in Silliman’s 
Journal, above quoted, can have any weight or force.” 
The Index to North American Mycology, which is an 
alphabetical list of articles, authors, subjects, new species and 
hosts, new names and synonyms, by W. A. Kellerman appeared 
in instalments in 1905 in the May, July, and September No.’s of 
the Journal of Mycology. This comprehensive index includes 
everything in its scope that has appeared since the end of the 
year 1900. Each instalment is printed as a separate — on one 
side of the page only so that it may be cut and pasted on cards 
making a convenient library card index. 
J. C. Arthur’s Cultures of Uredineae in 1905, being the 
sixth of a series of reports by the author upon the cultures of 
plant rusts, gives (see Journal of Mycology, Jan. 1906) an ac¬ 
count of 194 sowings of spores, representing 45 species of rusts, 
and for that purpose 100 species of hosts were utilized which 
were grown temporarily in pots in the greenhouse. The sum¬ 
mary shows that 20 successful cultures were made with species 
previously reported, and 10 with species now reported for the 
first time. The latter are as follows: 1. Puccinia silphii Schw. 
— Resting teleutospores from Silphium integrifolium Michx. 
sQwn on same host; 2. Puccinia grindeliae Pk. — Resting teleu¬ 
tospores from Gutierrezia sarothrae (Pursh) B. & R. sown on 
same host; 3. Puccinia solidaginis Pk. — Resting teleutospores 
from Solidago trinervata Greene, sown on S. Canadensis L.; 4. 
Puccinia transformans E. & E. — Resting teleutospores from 
Stenolobium Stans (L.) Don. sown on same host; 5. Puccinia 
kuhniae Schw.—Teleutospores from Kuhnia eupatorioides L. 
sown on same host; 6. Puccinia canaliculata (Schw.) Lagerh. 
— Aecidiospores from Xanthium canadense Mill, sown on Cy- 
perus esculentis L.; 7. Puccinia eleocharidis Arth. — Teleuto¬ 
spores from Eleocharis palustris (L.) R. & S. sown on Eupa- 
