214 SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



on plant diseases in 1000 and 1901. He tabulates the diseases examined 

 under the groups of plants attacked, beginning with the vine, then the 

 cereals, fruit-bearing trees, &c. He also gives separate lists of those 

 observed in the earlier part of the year, and those that were found in 

 the later months. He recapitulates the work that has been done in 

 the laboratory since its foundation in 1871, and gives a list of the 

 papers that have been published by himself or his assistants — a very 

 large proportion of them dealing with fungal diseases of plants. The 

 insect pests are also noted, and suggestions for the cure of many of the 

 maladies are given. 



Fungi of Mount Ventoux.* — J. Lagarde publishes a first list of 

 fungi from this mountain which forms a continuation of the Southern 

 Alps on the western side. The list is a long one and includes members 

 of all the different groups. In each case the habitat of the fungus is 

 given and the name of the month in which it was gathered. 



Fungi of Lomellina.f — Angelo Magnaghi publishes a first list of 

 fungi from this district of Lombardy. He records 140 species belonging 

 to the various natural orders. There is one new species, Phoma Capsici, 

 parasitic on the fruits of Capsicum annuum. 



Fungus Flora. % — The same author publishes an account of the- 

 fungi collected in Egypt by G. Schweinfurth. The larger forms are 

 fairly well represented, and he describes one new genus, Battareopsis, 

 something like Battarea, but differing in the form of the gleba.. 

 Hennings places it near Secotium. The new plant is illustrated by 

 figures in the text. He records several new species of Uredineae and 

 a new Hypomyces. 



African Fungi.§ — P. Hennings finds among these a considerable- 

 number of new species, all of them microscopic. There are a number 

 of Uredinese and other leaf -inhabiting forms. He records two new 

 genera, Baumiella a pyrenomycete, and Hyphastis a hyphomycete, both: 

 with one species. 



Fungus Flora of Sao Paulo. || — P. Hennings gives a second 

 contribution from the collection of Pultemans. With the exception of 

 three species belonging to Polyporus, Lepista, and Scleroderma, they are- 

 all microscopic. There are a few forms of Ustilagineas and Uredineas, 

 but by far the largest number, including many new species, belong to the 

 Ascomycetes and the " Fungi imperfecti." He records two new genera, 

 Capnodiopsis, closely allied to Capnodium, but with a very sparse myce- 

 lium, and Pseudobeltrania, a member of the Dematias group. The latter 

 genus has upright, branched, brown conidiophores bearing acrogenous, 

 septate, brown spores. Both fungi were found on leaves. 



Fungi from Galapagos. If — W. G. Farlow in his flora of these islands 

 includes three species of fungi, Favolus ciliaris, Fomes lucidus, and 

 Schizophyllwn alneum. There were a few others that were not in a 

 condition to be determined. 



* Bull. Soc. Myc. de France, xviii. (1902) pp. 328-80. 

 t Atti 1st. Bot. Univ. Pavia, vii. (1902) pp. 105-22. 

 X Hedwigia, Beibl. xli. (1902) pp. 210-5 (2 figs, in text). 



§ Fungi: Kunone-Sambesi Expedition, Berlin, 1902, pp. 155-69. See also 

 Hedwigia, Beibl. xli. (1902) pp. 237-8. || Hedwigia, xli. (1902) pp. 295-311. 

 ^f Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci., xxxviii. (1902) pp. 82-3. 



