08 SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



Fungi Exotici : xxiv. — In the present paper contributed by E. M. 

 Wakefield {Keiv Bull., 1918, 207-10, 7 figs.) nine species new to 

 science are described. One of these, Fomes pseudo-ferrPMS, causes a 

 serious root-disease of Hevea brasiliensis in the Malay States, where it 

 was collected, and at one time attributed to Fo7-ia hypolateritia. Another 

 species, Fomes eleganSy a small neat species, is also said to cause root- 

 disease of Hevea in the same country. Other new fungi described from 

 Australia and Tropical Africa are saprophytic on leaves and wood. 



A. L. S. 



New or Noteworthy Fungi from New Mexico. — Ch. E. Fairman 

 {Mycologia, 1918, )0, 239-6-4) publishes a list of Ascomycetes and 

 Deuteromycetes, all of them microscopic fungi, collected by P. C. 

 Standley in Colfax County, New Mexico. Many of the species are new 

 to science. A. L. S. 



New Japanese Fungi. — Tyozaburo Ta^ak a (Bhjcologia, 1918, 10, 

 285-'^) continues his account of minute fungi belonging to the " Fungi 

 imperfecti." Those described grow on living or dead trees of Morus 

 alba. A. L. S. 



Cape Fungi. — A considerable number of fungi have been collected 

 by Alice Pegler, and listed by I. B. Pole Evans {Aim. Bolus 

 Herb., 1918, 2, 109-11, 185-93). They were collected in the Kentani 

 district of the Cape Province, and though mostly micro-species there are 

 also a series of larger forms of Basidiomycetes. Several species are new 

 to science. A. L. S. 



New or Rare British Fungi. — A. Lorrain Smith and J. Rams- 

 bottom {Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc, 1918, 6, 47-53) record a series of 

 microfuiigi mostly new to Britain. Several species are new to science, 

 and one genus, Discocera, which resembles Humaria in its spores, but is 

 more truly akin to Nesolechia. It was parasitic on a crustaceous lichen, 

 on stone. 



A second paper, by Carleton Rea {Trans. Brit. Mycol. See, 6, 61-4), 

 deals mainly with the larger fungi, two of which are new to science. 

 The paper is illustrated by a coloured plate. A.. L. S. 



New Species of " Fungi imperfecti." — J. S. Bayliss Elliott 

 {Trans. Bnt. Myrnl. Soc, 6, 36-61, 1 pi.) has added six species to the 

 British Fungus Flora, four of them being new species. With one 

 exce[ttion they grew on decaying wood or on fallen pine-cones, in the 

 author's garden, at Tamworth-iu-Arden, Warwickshire. A. L. S. 



Fungi on Bromus. — Paul Cruchet {Bull. Soc. Vaiid. Sci. Nat., 

 1917, 51, 583-.^) comments on the list of fodder-plants that has been 

 prepared, and proposes that a list of parasites on each of ihese plants 

 shou'd also be made. He gives a long list of such as grow on Bromus 

 erecti/s, o' e of the commonest Swiss grasses. He adds notes on Epichloe 

 typhina, Urocystes Ayropyri, etc. A. L. S. 



