ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY, MICKOSCOPY, ETC. 505 



Myxomyeetes, Schizomycetes, Phycomycete's, Ascomycetes, Uredineas, etc. 

 For all of these he lias given habitat and locality, and for parasitic 

 species the name of the host. The Basic! iomycetes are more shortly 

 dealt with, but this habitat also is indicated. No new species have been 

 discovered. 



F. Petrabe* publishes some fungi from Moravia and Austrian 

 Silesia, mostly microfungi. He has established two new genera : llerpo- 

 trichiella, a Pyrenomycete near to Acanthostigma, but with dark spores ; 

 and Leptomassaria, founded on a species of Anthostoma, but differing 

 from that genus in the absence of a stroma. Seven new species are 

 described. 



H. Sydowj has published a considerable list of microfungi from 

 Southern India, sent to him by W. M'Rae, most of them collected on the 

 Government farm at Coimbatore. Several new parasitic species are 

 described. 



H. and P. Sydow % have also published a very large number of new 

 Philippine fungi, sent for identification by E. D. Merrill. The new 

 genera are Rizalia, the species R. fasciculata being parasitic on Micro- 

 thyriaceas ; Meliolina, a genus near to Melioki ; Rycnoderma, a genus of 

 Triehopeltaceae ; Angatia, a stromatoid Dothideaceaa ; Odontoschizon 

 and JIanilsea, minute Discomycetes ; and Exotrichum and Psallidosperma, 

 genera of Exgipulacese, but with superficial pycnidia. Genera and species 

 are described at length, and their habitat and locality are given. 



Philippine Fungi. § — A series of Basidiomycetes have been described 

 by X. Patouillard from Philippine material, more particularly from the 

 Island of Luzon. One new genus has been found, Duportella, which is 

 akin to Hymenochxfe, but with somewhat peculiar cystidia and abundant 

 paraphyses. Representatives of some very rare genera have been de- 

 scribed, such as Elmerina, not unlike Hexagona, but with radiating gills 

 on the under side of the sessile pileus. Diagnoses in Latin of the new 

 species are published, and habitats are given of those already described. 



Notes on Australian Fungi. || — J. Burton Cleland and Edwin 

 Cheel are publishing a series of notes on fungi in Australia, especially 

 the larger fleshy Agarics. The imperfect descriptions hitherto given 

 of many species have rendered the task of identification extremely 

 difficult. Many of the species so carefully described by the authors 

 are British as well as Australian. There is no record as to whether 

 these plants are indigenous or introduced. Four forms of Hymeno- 

 gastracere were met with, and one of the larger Ascomycetes, MorclieJla 

 conk* i. 



Plant Diseases.— F.T.Brooks, F.R.Pethybridge, and G.T. Spinks,1i 

 have made experiments in the treatment of American gooseberry 



* Ann. Mycol., xii. (1914) pp. 471-9. 

 t Ann. Mycol., xii. (1914) pp. 484-90. 

 X Ann. Mycol., xii. (1914) pp. 545-76 (7 figs.) 

 § PhilippiDe Journ. Sci., x. (1915) pp. 85-98. 

 || Journ. Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S. Wales, xlviii. (1915) pp. 433-43. 

 4 Journ. Board Agric, xxii. (1915) pp. 227-30. 



