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Journal of Mycology 
[Vol. 8 
The Nidulariaceae of North America are monographed 
by V. S. White, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 29: 251- 
280, 5 pi. May 1902. Cyathia replaces the generic name Cyathus; 
a key to the eleven North American species is given; one species 
and one variety are new. Crucibulum vulgare Tol. (1844) the 
only species of this genus is to be called C. crucibuliforme (Scop.) 
White. Nidula, a new Genus is proposed; under it two species 
and one variety are given; the variety and one species are new. 
Granularia (Roth, 1791) replaces the generic name Nidularia 
(Fr. and Nord., 1817-18) ; a key to the three species is given; 
two of the species are new. A table showing the known distri¬ 
bution of the species is included. 
As animal mycophagists W. A. Murrill lists (Torreya, 
2:25-6. Feb. 1902) a large sphingid larva (Virginia) —feeding 
on Polyporus flavovirens; red, or “pine,” squirrel of Alaska in the 
region west of the Yukon River — living on [seeds of Picea alba 
and] mushrooms (three kinds of Agarics noticed) which they 
place in forks of branches, etc., visiting their collections every 
day in the winter for a meal. 
Quite extended “Supplementary Notes on the Ery- 
siphaceae,” by Ernest S. Salmon, are published in the Bull. Torr. 
Bot. Club, 29:1-22, 83-109, Jan. and Feb. 1902. A considerable 
amount of further material has enabled the author “to continue 
the study of critical forms of several species; to investigate many 
cases of the reported occurrence of a species on an unusual 
host plant; and to extend the geographical range and add further 
hosts for many species. Several recent important papers are 
also critically reviewed, followed by a bibliography of 89 refer¬ 
ences, a host index, and a species index. 
The Ohio Fungi exsiccati, the labels to the specimens of 
which contain a reprint of the original descriptions besides the 
customary data, is being issued by W. A. Kellerman, Ohio State 
University. Five fascicles, average of 20 specimens each, have 
been distributed, according to statement in Journal of Mycol¬ 
ogy, 8:167. Oct. 1902. 
A PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL STUDY OF CANKER GROWTH Oil Abies 
balsamea in Minnesota by Alexander P. Anderson is reported in 
the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 29:23-34. 2 pi. Jan. 
1902. The cause of the disease was found to be Dasyscypha 
resinaria (Cooke & Phil.) Rehm., a species hitherto found in 
North Wales and in Hungary. 
Notes on the Amanitas of the Southern Appalachians 
is the title of an eight-page pamphlet, author H. C. Beardslee, 
publisher Lloyd Library, devoted to the subgenus Amanitopsis. 
It contains a key to the seven species — vaginata, baccata, farin- 
