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45, 883-7, 3 pis.). In a large number of the mushrooms the abnormal 

 hymenium caused black protuberances on the upper surface and injured 

 the market value of the plants. The author describes these deformities, 

 and gives his reasons for regarding the occurrence as a reversion to 

 ancestral characters. A. L. S. 



Notes on Australian Fungi. No. IV. — Polyporus, Femes, and 

 Hexagona. — A very full account of these fungi is publislied by 

 J. Burton Cleland and E. Cheel (Jour/i. Roy. Soc. N.S. 'Wales, 1917, 

 51, 473-557). The authors have submitted their specimens to C. G. 

 Lloyd, and they publish his notes on them as well as their own observa- 

 tions. Appended is a list of Cooke's records and determinations, with the 

 names now given. A. L. S. 



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Ceylon Lentini.— In a paper on this subject T. Fetch {Ann. Roy, 

 Bot. Gardens, Peradeniya, 1016, 6, 1-8) discusses the species of Lentinus 

 collected and described as Ceylon plants. A number of these have been 

 described several times under different names. Fetch gives the informa- 

 tion and the descriptions that serve to unite the various forms. 



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Ceylon Polypori. — In preparing this paper T. Fetch {Ann. Roy. 

 Bot. Gardens, Peradeniya, 191G, 6, 1-58) has taken, as a basis, Berkley 

 and Broome's list of Folyporoids in the " Fungi of Ceylon." The 

 original specimens are in the Herbarium, Kew, and they are here dis- 

 cussed, and renamed when necessary. The genera Polyporus, Polystictus, 

 Forms, Poria, Trametes, Deedalea, Hexagonia, and Favolus are included 

 in this survey. A few species new to science are added by the author. 



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Conidial Forms of Basidiomycetes. — N. Fatouillard {Bull. Soc, 

 Mycol. France, 1918, 34, 198-201, 2 figs.) describes Ptychogaster nodu- 

 losHS sp. n., which formed small nodules on rotten bark in the Fhilip- 

 pines. It was associated with a Hijdnwn. A second fungus, Fchinodia 

 Thcolromse, grew on branches of Tlieobroma Cacao at Singapore. . It has 

 the appearance of a flat cushion, the general mass rather coriaceous, and 

 covered with points like a Stilhum fructification. The connexion with 

 any higher fungus has not been determined. A. L. 8. 



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Mycological Notes. — Three issues of these notes have been published 

 recently by C. G. Lloyd {Cincinnati, Ohio, 1918, Nos. 54, 55, 56, 

 766-812). In each Lloyd gives a photograph and a sketch of some 

 distinguished mycologist, then follow figures, notes and descriptions of 

 fungi received from all quarters of the globe ; among others there are 

 several species of Camillea, Tremella, Geaster, etc. A. L. S. 



French Mycology. — F. Bataille {Bull. Soc. Mycol. France, 1918, 

 34, 195-7) notes a new locality for Phallus impudictis var. imperialis, 

 in which the peridium and internal envelope of the stalks are a beautiful 

 Tose-violet. He collected it towards the end of the summer (1913) at 

 "VVimereuXj Pas- de-Calais. A description of the fungus is dven. 



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