518 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



"Algen Europas ;" two fasciculi of Nordstedt and Witt- 

 rock's "Algse Scandinavicre;" and a fine set of New Zealand 

 algae by Dr. Berggren. 



The number of articles on fungi is enormous, and it is only- 

 possible to refer to a few of the more important works. On 

 Hymenomycetes we must notice a Clavis Synoptica Hyme- 

 nomycetum Europrcorum, by Cooke and Quelet. The Fungi 

 of the Arctic Expedition have been described by Berkeley; 

 and a list of fungi from Queensland, comprising 120 species, 

 lias been published by Berkeley and Broome. 



M. C. Cooke gives in the Italian Journal of Botany a 

 prodromus of a Monograph of the Hendersonice. In Italy 

 there has been great activity in matters relating to fungi. 

 Professor Saccardo has lengthy articles in the two numbers 

 of Michelia which have appeared this year on Italian fungi, 

 and also an Enumeratio Pyrenomycetum Hypocreaceorum. 

 Spegazzini has an article on some coprophilous fungi in the 

 same journal. The Fungi Italic! Autographice Delincati of 

 Saccardo has been extended from Parts V. to VII. Pirotta, 

 in Italy, and Niessl, in Germany, have published monographs 

 of the genus Sporormia. The Ustilagincce have been further 

 treated by Professor Fischer von Waldheim, in a Russian 

 monograph ; and by Schroter, in two articles in the "Bei- 

 trage zur Biologie," in which he shows the identity of some 

 species thought to be distinct. At the end of the paper are 

 some remarks on the genus Entyloma. Van Tieghem has 

 published a third paper on the Mmorini, in which he de- 

 scribes several new species, and gives an arrangement of the 

 tribes of the group. Pasteur mentions in the Comptes Jien- 

 dus that he has ascertained that two of the species of JSIu- 

 corini, recently described by Van Tieghem, are capable of 

 producing alcoholic fermentation, and a rather spirited dis- 

 cussion has taken place between Pasteur and Trecul on this 

 subject. The Bulletin de la Societe Botanique contains a 

 number of notices of fungi. Some new species are described 

 and figured by Baudicr, and Prilleux has some remarks on 

 wood discolored green by fungi. The columns of the Bo- 

 tdnische Zeitung contain communications from Pees and 

 Gramitz with relation to Oidium albicans, the "Soorpilz." 

 The latter believes the species to be identical with Myco- 

 derma Vini,thc wine fungus, but the former strongly denies 



