CURRENT LITERATURE 189 



NOTES ON THE OCCURRENCE OF TRICHOMANES RADICANS, Su>., 

 IN SCOTLAND. By William Stewart. Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasg., 

 vi. pp. 1 8-2 1, March 1901. Discusses and supports its claim to be 

 regarded as indigenous. 



CARBONIFEROUS LYCOPODS AND SPHENOPHYLLS. By Robert 

 Kidston, F.R.S.E., F.G.S. Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. G/asg., vi. pp. 

 25-140, with figures. Is a comprehensive monograph of these groups 

 of fossil plants. 



ELGIN MOSSES. By J. A. Wheldon, F.L.S. Journ. Bot., 1901, 

 pp. 94-95. Gives a list of mosses collected by Mr. S. M. Macvicar 

 in an afternoon near Grantown in 1899. They number nearly 100 

 species, with varieties of several. 



A KEY TO THE GENERA AND SPECIES OF BRITISH HEPATIC^. 

 By Symers M. Macvicar. Journ. Bot., 1901, pp. 154-167. Is a 

 valuable aid to the identification of these plants. 



THE ROTHIEMURCHUS FUNGUS FORAY, lyra TO 22ND SEPT. 



1900. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. for 1899-1900, pp. 119-123. With 

 list of species found, being over 230, including a few from Murthly 

 grounds in Perthshire, 



NEW BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. By George Massee, F.L.S., and 

 Charles Grassland, F.L.S. Naturalist, 1901, pp. 177-189, pis. 

 1-2. Gives descriptions of numerous species (largely from York- 

 shire), and notes. Humaria carneola, Winter, was found on a living 

 moss on Quinag, near Inchnadamph, Sutherland, and described by 

 Salmon in Qiiekett Micr. Journ., vii. p. 372, pi. 20, figs. 4-7. 



FUNGI NEW TO BRITAIN. By Annie Lorrain Smith. Trans. 

 Brit. Myc. Soc., pp. 150-158, pi. 8. Thirty species described, of 

 which five, from dead branches (Coniothyrium Boydcanum on 

 Fuchsia, Libertella blepharis on Prunus Cerasus and Pyrus Malus, 

 L. corticola on Pyrus communis, L. Ribis on Ribes rubrum, and 

 L. Salicis on Salix cinerea), are described as new, from specimens 

 sent from Ayrshire by Mr. D. A. Boyd. 



NOTES ON MYCETOZOA. By Arthur Lister, F.R.S. Journ. Bot., 



1901, pp. 81-90, pi. 419. See Botanical Notes and News, p. 186. 



ON THE BIOLOGY OF A N^EMATELIA, Fr. By H. Marshall 

 Ward, F.R.S. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc., pp. 143-150, pis. 6-7. 



THE NUTRITION OF FUNGI. By H. Marshall Ward, F.R.S. 

 Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc., pp. 124-142. Very valuable contributions 

 to the subjects of both papers. 



