Dec. 1902] Notes from Mycological Literature 
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NOTES FROM MYCOLOGICAL LITERATURE. III. 
W. A. KELLERMAN. p 
Annales Mycologici Editi in notitiam Scientiae Myco- 
logicae Universalis. Early in January 1903, the first number 
of a new periodical headed as above will appear, which proposes 
dealing thoroughly with the cultivation and furtherance of Myco¬ 
logical Science. So states a circular notice just received from H. 
Sydow, Berlin, W., Goltz str. 6., Germany. The periodical will 
be issued every other month; the size about 640 pp. per year; 
the price 25 Marks. At present only one North American and 
two French Mycological periodicals are published. We welcome 
the appearance of the fourth journal devoted to this widening 
field of botanical science. Annales Mycologici will contain in 
the main original “mycological articles of the first class,” list of 
latest literature, critical reviews, etc. 
A plea by Professor Underwood for the concentra¬ 
tion of the energy of Mycological Clubs and of isolated indi¬ 
viduals on a limited number of genera, say Boletus, Boletinus, 
Coprinus, Lactarius, Russula, Hygrophorus, Lentinus, and Mar- 
asmius, was made in the January No. of Torreya, pp. 1-2 (1902), 
which it is to be hoped was numerously heeded during the year, 
and that abundant success may induce a continuation in the same 
line the next season. 
No end to the new Higher Fungi — Prof. Peck, the 
veteran American Agaricologist, describing fourteeen new species 
in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 29:69-74, Feb., 
loo:?. 
In no group of plants is careful study in the field so 
necessary as with Mushroons, says F. S. Earle, in Torreya (2:2-4. 
Jan. 1902) ; and besides valuable suggestions for the beginner 
and amateur Prof. Earle gives a commendable description blank. 
Bacterium truttae, a new species pathogenic to Trout, is 
described by M. C. Marsh in Science, 16:706-7, 31 Oct., 1902. 
The organism was obtained from diseased brook trout and stands 
in specific causal relation to the disease; found only in domesti¬ 
cated or aquarium fish, never in wild trout from the natural 
waters. It is not pathogenic to warm-blooded animals. 
C. A. J. OUDEMANS AND C. J. KONIG HAVE PUBLISHED a 
Prodrome d’une Flore Mycologuique obtenue par la culture sur 
Geletine preparee de la terre humeuse du S’panderswoud, pres 
Bussuns, in Achives Nederlandaises des Sciences exactes et 
naturelles. Forty-five species are figured — 8 Mucoraceae, 3 
Sphaeropsideae, 34 Mucedineae — on 33 colored plates. Thirty- 
one of the species are new with Latin diagnoses by Oudemans. 
