386 SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



fungi by Pelletier now in the possession of Viscount Guerniac of 

 Morlaix. There are six volumes, each one with a frontispiece of quaint 

 figures composed of fungi, of which two examples are given in the text. 

 A general revision of the drawings was made by Leveille, who added 

 many notes on the figures. The plates are carefully dated. In vol. v. 

 there are also twenty-two lichens and one hepatic figured. The author 

 gives a considerable number of species, with the notes of Pelletier and 

 Leveille\ 



Poisonous Fungi.* — L. Magnin contributes a note on the toxic 

 character of Amanita junquiUea. He cites cases of illness caused by 

 eating the fungus, but also states that certain people have eaten the 

 fungus for years with impunity. He draws attention to the fact that 

 plants vary in different seasons and in different localities, also that the 

 poisonous qualities may be confined to definite parts of the plant. 



L. Massef reports on a case of poisoning at Vendome due to eating 

 Amanita phallo ides. In one case it ended fatally. Masse recommends 

 publishing plates, carefully printed and coloured, of some half-dozen of 

 the most venomous species. 



Treatment of Monotypic Genera of Fungi.J — In view of the Inter- 

 national Congress to be held at Brussels, C. L. Shear puts forth a plea 

 for the type system in the understanding and description of fungi. He 

 cites a number of cases where this system has not been observed, the 

 species first described, and hence the type species, having been trans- 

 ferred to other genera of more recent origin. The confusion has arisen 

 in the case of micro-fungi largely from the failure of early authors to 

 appreciate microscopic details essential to a proper diagnosis. 



Yorkshire Fungi.— C. Crossland § records the fungi collected by 

 the Yorkshire Naturalist Society on various excursions. Sclerotinia 

 sclerotiornm was found in abundance near Myton Grange. Over 100 

 species were collected in north-west Yorkshire. Another list |) of 

 fungi from north-east Yorkshire is contributed by T. Gibbs, in which is 

 included Nolanea minuta Karst., a species new to Britain. 



C. Crossland If also records the finding of Hypocrea riccioides in 

 Great Langdale, Westmorland. The first record was made by Bolton, 

 who found it in New Halifax " on decaying branches of sallow and 

 hazel in February 1790." Crossland adds a new description and 

 figures of the plant. The same writer** gives a fist of fungi from 

 Hornsea Mere, in south-east Yorkshire, including Tapesia retincola, a 

 species new to Britain. It grows on dead stems of Phragmites. He 

 also describes ff Naucoria nucea, a rare species collected at Clapham, in 

 Yorkshire, first discovered by Bolton near Halifax, in 1787. 



The same writer %\ publishes an account of the annual fungus 

 foray, which took place in September in the Mulgrave Woods. The 



* Bull. Soc. Mycol. Prance, xxiv. (1908) pp. 270-2. 

 t Tom. sit., pp. 273-5. 



t Bull. Torrev Bot. Club, xxxvi. (1909) pp. 347-51. 

 § Naturalist, 1908, pp. 282-4. || Torn, cit., pp. 409-11. 



«[f Tom cit., pp. 371-2. ** Tom. cit., pp. 309-10. 



ft Tom. cit., pp. 385-6. }} Op. cit., 1909, pp. 21-7. 



