394 SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



Those new bo Britain are : Grandia helvetica, Peniophora Molleriana, 

 Ramularia Anthrisci and Staganospora Luzulee. 



The autumn foray was held at Doncaster, and though the prolonged 

 drought of the season had been unfavourable to the growth of fungi, a 

 number of new and rare species were discovered. A full list of spe 

 collected at both forays is given, as well as of the Mycetozoa, the lists of 

 these latter being supplied by Norman G. Sadden and G-ulielma Lister. 



The President of the Society, Reginald Buller, delivered an address 

 on the Fungus Lore of the Greeks and Romans, which give:- a historical 

 review of all that was written on fungi from the earliest times. The 

 lecturer treats of ancient ideas on Edible and Poisonous Fungi, on 

 Illustrations, on Medicinal Properties, Cultivation of Fungi, etc., and 

 adds a list of species known to the Ancients. 



New British Microfungi.* — J. W. Ellis has described a number of 

 Fnngi imperfecti new to Britain, most of them on dead leaves, tv 

 etc. Henderson in juncina, a new species, grew on decaying leaves of 

 Juncus effusus ; the pycnidia are extremely minute, the spores pallid- 

 yellow and 3-septate. 



New British Fungi.— E. M. Wakefield f has been making a study of 

 Thelephoraceae, and she now gives descriptions of fourteen species new 

 to the British Flora. Several of them were found a number of times in 

 widely different localities. Four of the species belong to the genus 

 Gorticium and six to Peniophora. 



G. K. Sutherland % gives an account of new marine Pyrenomycetes. 

 They are all parasites on brown seaweeds. Two genera, Trailia and 

 Orcadia, are new. Careful biological notes are added to the scientific 

 descriptions of the fungi. 



A. Lorrain Smith and J. Eamsbottom§ publish their usual summary 

 of new species or new to Britain. A large number of genera and species 

 are dealt with, making a very considerable addition to British micro- 

 fungi, and extending to British localities many species hitherto recorded 

 onlv on the Continent. Many of the new species were collected by 

 W. D. A. Boyd. 



Spanish Microfungi. ||— A list of some fungi parasitic on economic 

 plants has been prepared by Romualdo Gonzalez Fragoso. A number 

 of these are rusts belonging to the genera Uromyces, Puccinia, Phrag- 

 midium, etc. To these he has added various Fungi Imperfecti. among 

 them a new species, Septoria Lycii, on leaves of Lycium vulgare, and a 

 . new genus, Septoriopsis, similar to Septoria, but with superficial pycnidia. 

 The species described, S. Gitri, grows on the skin of the fruits of ( 'itrus 

 vulgaris. The other fungi listed are already known to science. 



Diseases of Plants. — G. K. Pethybridge 1 discusses the possible 

 sources of infection for the disease of leaf -spot in celery. The fungus 



* Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc, v. (1915) pp. 135-7. 



t Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc, v. (1915) pp. 126-34. 



X Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc, v. (1915) pp. 147-55 (1 pi.). 



' § Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc, v. (1915) pp. 156-68. 



1| Bol. Hist. Nat., xv. (1915) pp- 120-32 (2 figs.). 



1 Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc, xl. (1915) pp. 476-80. 



