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The azo acid browns, such as the Bismarck browns (Vesuvin,brun d’ ani¬ 
line). These do not stain cellulose or eallose. (4) For protoplasm, lignin, 
and cutin: The acid browns of variable composition, often having no 
relation to Bismarck browns. These are salts of soda of which the col¬ 
oring matter is the base. They are soluble in water. They stain proto¬ 
plasm brown, and certain stain cellulose rose color, but feebly. They 
color lignin and cutin deeply in an acid bath. They do not stain pectin 
or eallose compounds. They also mix with the soluble blues without 
precipitation and consequently are very suitable for the preparation of 
double stains, by means of which eallose can be distinguished very 
readily in the midst of tissues rich in nitrogenous matters— Erwin F. 
Smith. 
Peck, Charles H.— Annual Report of the State Botanist of the State 
of New York. Forty-fourth Kept. N. Y. State Mus. Nat. History: 
Albany, 1891, pp. 75, pi. 4. 
The above was distributed to botanists during December, 1891, and 
is the most extensive contribution to systematic mycology issued dur¬ 
ing the year in this country. Prof. Peck continues his observations on 
fungi and gives descriptions of many new species, some of which are 
illustrated. In speaking of the liability of plants to the attacks of 
fungi, he says that certain species of spruce trees in a starved and un¬ 
thrifty condition were attacked by Peridermium decolorans , while those 
in a healthy condition were exempt. The New York species of Trieho- 
loma are monographed in a manner similar to genera in previous reports, 
forty-seven species being described. There is also given a notice of a 
manuscript volume by Mary E. Banning, which contains descriptions of 
some new species. The figures are colored by hand, and all the species 
were collected in Maryland. They are mostly Hymenomycetes and 
Gastroinycetes. Fourteen new species are described. 
The following is the contents of the report: (A) Plants added to the 
herbarium, including many species of fungi (pp. 9-11). (B) Contribu¬ 
tors and their contributions (pp. 11-14). (C) Species of plants not 
before reported (pp. 15-30), with the following new species: Armillaria 
viscidipes , Tricholoma grande, Gli tocy b e fas eip es , Coll ybia exp aliens, Om- 
phalia corticola, Pleurotus pubescens , P. campanulatus, Flammula squa- 
lida, Grepidotus distans, Gortinarius albidus, Dcedalea sulphurella, I). 
ex tens a, Hydnum arachnoideum, Odontea tenuis, Mucronella minutissima, 
Thelephora odorifera , Cyphella arachnoidea, Pliyllosticta ludwigice, T)o- 
thiorella celtidis, Diplodia liriodendri , Z). multicarpa , Septoria pteridis , 
Septomyxa carp-ini , Aspergillus aviarius (found in the visceral cavity 
of a canary and supposed to have caused its death), Sporotrichum Le- 
canii , IHplosporium breve , Ramularia destruens, R.junci, R. graminicola , 
Cereosporella veratri , Bispora ejfusa , Septonema episphwricum , Caryos- 
pora minor , Metasphceria nuda , Pseudopeziza pyri , Saccharomyces be - 
tulce , Pk. & Pat. (D) Kemarks and observations (pp. 30-38) including 
