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Journal of Mycology 
[Vol. 8 
NeOCOSMOSPORA VASINFECTA VAR. TRACHEIPHILA ErW. 
Sm., the cause of the Wilt Disease of the Cowpea, its characters, 
distribution, extent of loss, preventive measures, and experiments, 
are fully discussed by W. A. Orton, in U. S. Dept. Agr. Bureau 
PI. Industry, Bull. 1717-22, pi. 1-4, 22 April, 1902. 
Edgar W. Olive has published in the Proc. Boston Soc. 
Nat. Hist. 30:415-513, pi. 5-8, August, 1902, a monograph of the 
Acrasieae — a small group of saprophytic organisms which have 
been associated with the Myxomycetes. There are seven genera 
and twenty species, twelve of which occur in the United States. 
The Studies in North American Discomycetes by Elias 
J. Durand are continued with valuable results; the first paper was 
on the genus Holwaya (Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 28:349-355, June, 
1901), the second on some new or noteworthy species from cen¬ 
tral and western New York (L. c. 29:458-165, July, 1902). 
Three new species are described in the last paper. 
A LIST OF FOURTEEN OF THE MORE IMPORTANT MOULDS in¬ 
jurious to foods is given by Mary Dresbach in the June number 
of the Ohio Naturalist (2:288-9), 1902. The orders represented 
are Bacteriales, Mucorales, Saccharomycetalis, Aspergillales and 
Moniliales. 
The 22nd Annual Report of the New Jersey Experi¬ 
ment Station for 1901 (issued in 1902) contains an extended 
account of the work by the botanist, B. D. Halsted. The myco- 
logical topics briefly touched on are the Asparagus Rust, Exper¬ 
iments with Pear Blight, Ergot upon Grass, Notes on Corn Smut, 
the Blight of Cumumbers, the Mildew of the Grape, Tulip Mould, 
and Fungi as related to weather. 
In the note on Boletus betula (182, Lloyd’s Myc. Notes, 
10:97, September, 1902) H. C. Beardslee says that three species 
of shaggy-striped Boleti have been described by American 
Mycologists — B. betula by Schweinitz, B. russelli by Frost, but 
these seem to be one and the same thing; and he adds that Mr. 
Lloyd regards B. morgani as a state of B. betula — hence this 
would reduce these three species to one and unite them “under 
the oldest and best name,” viz., B. betula. 
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Mr. C. G. Lloyd lias distributed Mycological Notes No. 
10, dated September, 1902. The notes are: 182 — Boletus betula 
(by H. C. Beardslee) ; 183 — Hypocrea alutacea; 184 — Looking 
backwards; 185 — An inexcusable blunder; 186 — Acknowledge¬ 
ment of specimens received since last report; 187 — How little 
we know; 188 —More about Geasters ; 189 — Gyrographmium 
delilei; and 190 — Gathering Puff-balls. Figures are given of 
Boletus betula and Hypocrea altacea. 
