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Technical Microscopic Methods for the Study of Fungi. — Fernaxd 

 MoREAU {Bull. Soc. MycoL France, 1918, 34, 1^7-91, 35 figs.) presents 

 ^ manual of instruction with regard to the microscopic examination of 

 fungi. These include the description of the microscope and its various 

 parts, drawing, measurement, preparation of specimens, fixing, staining, 

 etc., with a particular account of the protoplasm and cytology of the 

 group, and instructions suited to the problems to be solved in the 

 examination. A. L. S. 



Introduction of Wood-destroying Fungi. — James R. Weir 

 {3Iycologia, 1919, 11, 58-G5) writes on this subject in regard to imported 

 timber in the United States, and cites instances he has noted of such 

 introduction of fungi. He remarks on the comparatively small number 

 of timber fungi in the tropics, but such as there are might spread 

 readily in the southern districts. He also instances the growth of 

 Folystictus sanguineus collected in Brazil, but reviving after two years, 

 and growing at Munich when exposed in the forest while snow was still 

 on the ground. The author advises the study of tropical timber 

 diseases in their native haunts, that inspectors may know what to look 

 •out for in their examination of imported timbers. A. L. S. 



Philippine Basidiomycetes. III.— Paul W. Graff {Bull. Torrey 

 Bot Club, 1918, 45, 451-69, 1 pi.) has brought together a series of 

 fungi collected in the various Islands of the Philippine group. He has 

 included in the list a certain number of Ustilagineae and Uredineae. 

 With each species there is published a complete synonymy, and not 

 •only the habitat but the geographical distribution. A. L. S. 



New Japanese Fungi. — A number of microfungi new to Japan 

 {Uncinulse Peronosporae, etc.) have been described by Tyozaburo 

 Tanaka (Jlycologia, 1919, 11, 180-6). They are mostly parasitic. One 

 of them, Macrophoma Corchori Saivada sp. n., causes a disease of jute. 

 The writer points out that the fungoid diseases of jute are very imper- 

 fectly known. A. L. S. 



Greek Mycology. — Joannes Politis {Atti. 1st. Bot. Univ. Pavia, 

 1918, Ser. 2, 15, 73-9) has undertaken the study and classification of 

 Greek fungi. The material was collected partly by himself and partly 

 by the Directors of the Agricultural Stations of Elide and Patrasso. He 

 has already listed forty-two species belonging to various families and 

 genera of microfungi parasitic on the higher plants. A. L. S. 



Michigan Fungi.— C. H. Kauffman {Nineteenth Report Mich. Acad. 

 ■Sci., 1917, 145-57) publishes a list of additions to the Michigan Fungus 

 Flora, giving substratum and locality, with the hosts in the case of 

 parasites. To that he appends a list of host plants with the Basidio- 

 mycetes that grow on them, these being largely woody fungi belonging- 

 to the Polyporei and allied groups. A. L. S. 



Clathrus cancellatus in Scotland. — This fungus — an almost en- 

 tirely southern or tropical plant — has been hitherto found only in South 

 England. It turned up in West Scotland in Argyll, where it was 



