PYROPOLYPORUS INFLEXIBILIS (Berk.) Murrill, N. Am. Flora 9: 104. 1908. Collected on Rose Hill by F. S. Earle, and at Morce's Gap, John Crow Peak, Green River, and Cinchona by L. M. Underwood.

PYROPOLYPORUS JAMAICENSIS Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 30: 120. 1903. Described from specimens collected at Port Antonio in 1902 by F. S. Earle.

PYROPOLYPORUS ROBINSONIAE Murrill, N. Am. Flora 9: 108. 1908. Described from specimens collected on Monkey Hill in 1904 by Miss W. J. Robinson.

PYROPOLYPORUS ROSEOCINEREUS Murrill, N. Am. Flora 9: 104. 1908.

East of Hope Gardens, 1.

PYROPOLYPORUS SUBPECTINATUS Murrill, N. Am. Flora 9: 109. 1908.

Union Hill, 1158.

Pyropolyporus troyanus sp nov.

Pileus woody, horny-encrusted, ungulate, rarely compressedungulate, usually plane below, sessile either by the vertex or laterally, 5-8 8-11 X 3-5 cm.; surface many times concentrically sulcate, slightly rimose in very old specimens, bay to nearly black, glabrous, even when young; margin slightly obtuse, entire or slightly undulate, ferruginous, sterile, slightly velvety: context woody, hard, about 1 cm. or less thick, fulvous, penetrated by dendroid markings of a black, horny appearance; tubes rather distinctly stratified, avellaneous-umbrinous, about 3 mm. long each season, mouths minute, about 8 to a mm., circular, fulvous, almost castaneous when young, edges obtuse, entire: spores globose, smooth, pale-yellowish, 3-4μ; hyphae pale-yellowish; cystidia none.

Collected in Troy and Tyre, Jamaica, 650 m., on a dead log, January 12-14, 1909, W. A. Murrill & Harris 980 (type) 1051. PYROPOLYPORUS UNDERWOODII Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 30: 116. 1903. Collected near Kingston in 1906 by D. S. Johnson.

Tribe DAEDALEAE

DAEDALEA AMANITOIDES Beauv. Fl. Oware 1: 44. pl. 25. 1805. Abundant throughout the island.

East of Hope Gardens, 8; Cinchona, 583; Cockpit Country, 902.

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GLOEOPHYLLUM BERKELEYI (Sacc.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club

32: 370. 1905.

Castleton Gardens, 70.

GLOEOPHYLLUM HIRSUTUM (Schaeff.) Murrill, Jour. Myc. 9: 94.

1903.

Chester Vale, 3062.

GLOEOPHYLLUM STRIATUM (SW.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 32: 370. 1905. Abundant at low elevations. First described by Swartz as Agaricus striatus.

Cockpit Country, 1066; Moneague to Union Hill, 1171.

LENZITES EARLEI Murrill, N. Am. Flora 9: 128. 1908. Described from specimens collected at Port Antonio in 1902 by F. S. Earle.

NEWS AND NOTES

Cornell University has received an appropriation for three new buildings for the New York State College of Agriculture.

Dr. C. B. Plowright, a distinguished English naturalist, who devoted much of his time to the study of fungi, died early in May, at the age of fifty-one years.

Dr. E. Linhard and Dr. Kølpin Ravn, of Denmark, are visiting America to observe methods of forage crop production and applied plant pathology.

An international American scientific congress will be held in Buenos Aires from July 10 to 25, in celebration of the centenary of the revolution of May, 1810.

Dr. E. P. Meinicke has been called to Washington as expert in the Office of Investigations in Forest Pathology, Bureau of Plant Industry. This office has undertaken a vigorous campaign against forest diseases.

A very important paper by A. Potebnia on the microscopic fungi of middle Russia, containing many species not previously described and many figures, appeared in the February number of Annales Mycologici.

A list of the lichens of Ohio, by J. C. Hambleton, appeared in the Ohio Naturalist for January, 1910.

A. Sartory has investigated two species of Chanterel, C. tubaeformis Fr. and C. aurantiacus Wulf., supposed to be poisonous, and has come to the conclusion that they are harmless (Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 25: 253, 254. 1909).

Mr. E. Bartholomew, of Stockton, Kansas, visited the Garden. on June 3 and 4.

Dr. J. E. Kirkwood, research scholar at the Garden at various times from 1899 to 1904, has been appointed professor of botany and forestry at the University of Montana.

Dr. Charles E. Fairman, of Lyndonville, New York, spent two weeks at the Garden during the latter part of May, consulting the collection of Lophiostomaceae.

In the Thesaurus recently completed by Lindau & Sydow, there are 1710 pages, containing about 30,000 titles of books and articles on mycological subjects.

A number of new species of fungi from the Philippine Islands are described by H. & P. Sydow in Annales Mycologici for February, 1910.

A key to the New England species of Cladonia, and a list of the species of the Cladoniaceae occurring in New England, prepared by L. W. Riddle, appeared in Rhodora for November, 1909.

In the Plant World for September, 1909, V. W. Pool discusses the present status of plant pathology; the article being based upon replies to a circular letter to a number of men prominent in this field.

At the recent Brussels' congress, it was decided to take the date of publication of Fries' Systema Mycologicum as the starting point for the nomenclature of most of the fungi, and to go back to 1753 for the lichens, and to 1801 for certain other groups.

Professor H. J. Banker, of De Pauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, stopped at the Garden two weeks in June on his way to visit the principal European herbaria in preparation of a monograph of the Hydnaceae to appear in North American Flora.

Mr. H. S. Jackson, research scholar at the Garden in 1907, has been appointed professor of botany and plant pathology in the Oregon Agricultural College. Mr. Jackson has been since August, 1909, research assistant in plant pathology in the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station.

The Torrey Botanical Club has arranged a special excursion for fungi to Cold Spring, Long Island, for August 6. The train leaves the foot of East 34th Street (Long Island R. R.) at 9:00 A. M. Returning trains leave at 4:49 and 6:51 P. M. Cost of trip, about two dollars. Guides, Mr. Seaver and Mr. Dodge.

Dr. William J. Gies, consulting chemist of the New York Botanical Garden, will conduct investigations of various species of poisonous fungi during the coming year. Contributions of specimens are desired from as many localities as possible. They should be collected in quantity and dried in the sun or in a current of warm air. Descriptive notes are of value for purposes of determination.

An illustrated work on the poisonous plants of Germany, by Dr. P. Esser, director of the Cologne Botanic Garden, has recently appeared. The fungi included in this work are: Amanita phalloides, A. muscaria, A. pantherina, Russula emetica, R. foetens, Lactarius torminosus, Boletus lupinus, B. Satanas, Phallus impudicus, Scleroderma vulgare, and Claviceps purpurea.

The American Phytopathological Society at its last meeting appointed a committee consisting of F. L. Stevens, H. von Schrenk, E. M. Freeman, W. A. Orton, and G. P. Clinton, to draw up rules and make recommendations concerning the common names of plant diseases, the object being to secure uniformity in their usage.

Leaf-blight of the plane-tree (Gleosporium nervisequum) was very conspicuous this season on the grounds of the Garden from the middle of May to the end of June, the continued rainy weather being especially favorable to the development of the