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COPELAND, E. B., New species of ediblePhilippine fungi. 



(Dept. of Interior. Bureau of Hort. Laboratories. Bull. XXVIII. 



p. 141-146. 3 plates. 1905. [Manila.]) 



Descriptions of the tollowing new species, with notes, are given: 

 Lvcoperdon todciyense on ground iiear base of a Musa ; Coprinus con- 

 ferfiis on horse manure ; C ater on horse manure ; C. ornatus on wood ; 

 C. Bryanti on rotten wood; C. concolor on ground; C. volutus on rotting 

 leaves; C. revolntus, coprophilous ; C.rimosus on horse niiinure; C. pseudo- 

 plicatus on horse manure and rotten leaves; Panaeolus pseiidopapilio- 

 naceus on manured ground; P. panaiense on horse manure; Psalliota 

 Boltoni in sunny pastiires ; P. Mnrrillü on soil ; P. argyrostectus in sunny 

 pastures; P. manilensis in lawns ; P. perfiisciis on manured ground; 

 Lepiota chlorospora in lawns ; L. manilensis around Pithecolobimn and 

 Terminalia, L. data in lawns; L. Candida in grass. 



Perley Spaulding. 



Farlow, W. G., Bibliograph ical Index of North Ame- 

 rican Fungi. VoL 1. Part 1. Pages 1 to 312. Abro- 

 thallus to Badhamia. (Carnegie Institute of Washington, Sep- 

 tember 1905.) 



The present volume is the first part of a work which is to include 

 bibliographical references to the genera and species of North Ameri- 

 can Fungi, including all of North America up to the Isthmus of 

 Panama." The names of fungi are arranged in alphabetical order v/ith 

 occasional cross references. Following the names are such references 

 to literature as pertain to systematic mycology. Where papers on the 

 cytology or physiology of fungi had any reference to morphology and 

 Classification, such papers are included in the references. In addition 

 to references to pnblications, the index is supplied with a large number 

 of critical notes. 



The nomenclature used in the index follows in a general way the 

 names used in the Sylloge of Saccardo and the Pflanzenfamilien of 

 Engler and PraVitl. The opinion is expressed in the preface that the 

 present Classification of fungi is not o.e which can be called more than 

 temporary, but that the knowledge of fungi in general is not yet suffi- 

 ciently advanced to make possible a really natural and scientific System. 



The author has followed the principle of adopting the oldest scienti- 

 fic name under which a specimen is described, doing so however only 

 when it was quite piain that the species described by an older writer 

 was the same as that generally known under a more recent or more 

 certain name. In this respect he follows the resolutions passed at the 

 recent Vienna Congress to the effect that in the case of certain genera 

 of Spermaphytes the names should be retained regardless of priority. 

 Many of the names given to species and genera by the older writers 

 have been dropped and more modern names substituted wherever the 

 vagueness of the description and crudeness of the illustration made it 

 impossible to be sure that the species were the same as those to which 

 they have since been applied. 



The list of references is proceded by an index giving abbreviations 

 of names and publications. The number of references given in this first 

 volume run into the thousands and it is estimated that some 150000 will 

 be included in the complete work. The present volume includes genera 

 from Abrothallus to Badhamia. 



The volume is edited with extreme care and attention to detail. It 

 is possible to teil at all times whether any particular reference is to 

 American or foreign material, presence of specimens in exsiccati, etc. 

 As a reference to "the literature of North American fungi, the pre- 

 sent work will be welcomed, and succeeding volumes will be anxiously 

 expected. H. von Schrenk. 



