Mycologia, Volume 4

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New York Botanical Garden., 1912 - Electronic journals

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Page 324 - He has a temporary appointment on the staff of the Carnegie Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York, where he will spend the year in research work on the lower fungi.
Page 32 - The red color suggests that the white carbonate of lead undergoes some chemical change induced by the presence of the fungus, resulting in the formation of red oxide of lead. This matter, however, requires careful investigation. The presence of two per cent, of carbolic acid in paint completely arrests the development of the fungus.
Page 40 - Now in its fifth volume. Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden, containing the annual reports of the Director-in-Chief and other official documents, and technical articles embodying results of investigations carried out in the Garden.
Page 35 - ... area by an immune zone. Advance infections should be located by trained observers and destroyed by cutting and burning. As the disease develops almost entirely in the bark, this must be completely destroyed (burned). " In order to carry out the above methods it is essential that the several States concerned secure necessary legislation and appropriations, following the example of Pennsylvania, as no law exists whereby...
Page 269 - Much of this introductory matter was completed with the aid of a grant from the Esther Herrman Research Fund, of the New York Academy of Sciences. notes. The keys and general ranges have been copied from "Illustrated Flora," except where simplicity demanded a different key owing to the limited number of species in our area.
Page 36 - Meyer, of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture...
Page 160 - Garden. $1.00 per volume. To others, $2.00. [Not offered in exchange. ] Vol. I. An Annotated Catalogue of the Flora of Montana and the Yellowstone Park, by Per Axel Rydberg. ix + 492 pp., with detailed ma'p.
Page 155 - Seaver, FJ The genus Lamprospora, with descriptions of two new species. Mycologia 4: 45-48. pi. 57. Mr 1912.
Page 223 - My 1912. Riddle, LW An enumeration of lichens collected by Clara Eaton Cummings in Jamaica — I. Mycologia 4: 125-140.
Page 222 - This is believed to be due to the proteolytic enzynis acting on the dead roots. There can always be distinguished a zone of dark green grass outside as well as inside the zone of dead grass. The infected soil was found very impervious to moisture, owing probably to the air which is entangled within the meshes of the mycelium. It is thought that the fungus secretes a substance toxic to itself so as not to be able to grow in the same soil 3 years in succession. During the second year the fungus dies...

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