340 SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



ture, a classified table of the genera, and photographic figures illustrating 

 each genus. 



Fungus Flora. * — F. Bataille has drawn up a list of the genera 

 Amanita and Lepiota, which forms the first part of a contemplated 

 Flora of the larger Fungi of France. The author has invented a 

 series of new terms : he substitutes Basic! Oospores and Ascospores for 

 Basidiomycetes and Ascomycetes. The Basidiospores he subdivides into 

 Gymnobanidies and Avgiobasidies. The Gymnobasidies, which are exactly 

 synonymous witli Hymenomycetes, comprise six families: Polyphylles, 

 Ermaces, Clavaries, Auricularies, and Tremellines. The Amanitas and 

 Lepiotas, along with the other sub-genera of Agaricus, fall under the 

 Polyphylles. The author discusses the habit and economic value of the 

 fungi, and gives an analytical table of species. M. Luuien Quelet, 

 since deceased, has furnished a preface. 



Fungi of the Netherlands.!— C. A. J. A. Oudemans describes 75 

 new species of Fungi. The first 13 belong to the Basidiomycetes, 

 Ascomycetes, and Pliycomycetes. The others are all in the group of Fungi 

 Imperfecta One species, Phyllosticta Typhse, had been already published 

 under Phoma Typhse. A large number of the species belong to the 

 Sphseropsideae, and grow on branches and leaves of various trees. 



Vegetable Pathology. $ — H. von Schrenk contributes a paper on 

 the teaching of vegetable pathology. He would divide the subject, as 

 in animal pathology, into three groups: (1) Diagnosis; (2) Etiology; 

 (3) Therapeutics. The great advantage of vegetable pathology is the 

 possibility of making the study one of continual experimentation on 

 living plants. The author requires in his students a thorough know- 

 ledge of physiology, in order that they may appreciate the changes in 

 the organism induced by disease. 



Lists and New Species of Fungi. — C. H. Peck§ describes 14 new 

 species of the larger fungi from various States. Of one of these, 

 Agaricus Sterlingii, he remarks that it is edible, and richer in flavour 

 than the common mushroom. 



W. H. Long || has described seven new species of Puccinia from the 

 neighbourhood of Austin, Texas. In P. Cooperise and P. similis he has 

 found all three stages of the fungus on the same host. In the case of 

 the other species he records only the uredo- and teleutospores. He gives 

 drawings of the spores. 



P. Hennings ^ has described the fungi collected in Para by Dr. J. 

 Huber, There are three new species of Uredinese, four new Ascomycetes, 

 and four species not hitherto det-enbed in the Deuteromycetes. 



He** also publishes a list of new Japanese rusts, andff a second 

 list of fungi collected in South Brazil by A. Moller. Those already 

 €nnmerated belonged to the Ustilaginese and Uredineae ; these are all 

 Ascomycetes, a group in which South Brazil is especially rich, and 

 many new forms have been discovered. A large number had already 



* Flore monographique des Amanites et des Le'piotcs, Paris, 1902, 88 pp. 

 t Beiheft. Bot. Centralbl., xi. (1902) pp. 523-41. 



J Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, xxix. (1902) pp. 57-65. § Tom. cit., pp. 69-74. 

 II Tom. cit.,, pp. 110-6. f Hedwigia, xli. (1902) pp. 15-8. 



*' Tom. cit., pp. 18-21. ft Tom. cit , pp. 1-33. 



