750 SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



van Nederland. Only the larger fungi, the Agarics, Polypores and 

 Gasteroraycetes, with a few Ascomycetes, are included in the survey. 

 No microscopic details are given. 



British Basidiomycetes.* — M. 0. Cooke has issued a list of the 

 larger fungi, of a convenient size for carrying in the field, and with 

 alternate blank pages for making notes. The genera are numbered— 

 134 in all — and also indexed. A slight key to genera and species is 

 supplied, and " poisonous " or " edible " added to outstanding species. 

 The list includes the species recorded up to the end of 11)08. 



Notes on Microfungi. — H. 8. Fawcett f points out a confusion that 

 has arisen concerning the species of Gladosporium that causes a seal) on 

 the orange, and has been described as C. Gitri Mass. It is distinct from 

 C. elegans Penz., which forms arid brown spots on the leaves. 



W. C. CokerJ records a new host for Exoascus filicinus. He 

 found it growing on the Christmas fern, Dryopteris aero sticho ides. 



Study of Fumagine Fungi. — G. Arnaud§ describes these as fungi 

 differing from each other, but all connected with one group of Sphae- 

 riacas. This group, representing the perfect form of the fungus, includes 

 Capnodium, which is synonymous with Teichospora, Pleosphseria and 

 Seuratia. The conidial forms are Dematium, Cladosporium, Alternaria, 

 Afacrosporiwn, and Triposporium. Arnaud has made culture experiments 

 with the different forms, and the results are to be published in a future 

 number of the Annales. 



Popular Account of Fungi. — Julius Rothmayr || is publishing 

 monthly a periodical, called "der Pilzfreund," or the Fungus-lover. 

 The aim of the paper is to interest people in the most important 

 economic species, to enable them to distinguish the edible from the 

 poisonous species, and to instruct them where and how to collect 

 specimens. There are papers on these various subjects by several 

 authors. The editor writes on "Arrangements of Fungi in their 

 families"; "Is the Panther fungus (Amanita umbrina) edible or 

 poisonous ? " ; " What Fungi may we expect to find in April " ; and 

 several other papers by Ed. Wiedenbach, B. Studen, and A. W. Holl. 



The author 1T has also published a popular account of edible and 

 poisonous Swiss Fungi in book form. He describes Amanita pantherina 

 as poisonous, A. muscaria as unpleasant, but not poisonous. 



Plea for the Study of Fungi.— Thos. Smith** emphasizes the interest 

 to the student of the various forms of fungoid plant-life, and points 

 out the great differences between these and other members of the 

 vegetable kingdom. He sketches the structure and development of the 

 larger fungi, and describes the methods of classification. He pays 



* Catalogue and Field-book of British Basidiomycetes. 



t Mycologia, ii. (1910) pp. 245-6. J Tom. cit., p. 247. 



§ Ann. Mycol., xiii. (1910) pp. 470-6. 



|j Der Pilzfreund. Luzern (April 1910) i. See also Bot. Centralbl., cxiv. (1910) 

 pp. 219-20. 



U Luzern: (1909) 119 pp. (40 col. pis.). See also Bot. Centralbl., cxiv. (1910) 

 p. 220. 



** Lancashire Naturalist, ii. (1910) pp. 369-72: iii. pp. 3-6, 59-63, 73-4. 



