ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY, MICROSCOPY, ETC. 7.~>1 



H. M. Quan jer * records the occurrence of cucumber leaf -spot 

 {Corynespora Mazei) in South Holland. It causes the leaves to become 

 yellow and die. Inoculation by spores induced the disease in healthy 

 leaves. 



C. v. Tubeuf f writes that the cherry-leaf disease has broken out 

 badly in Bavaria. The fungus Gnomonia erythrostoma causes the leaves 

 to dry up before the autumn, and they hang on the trees all winter. He 

 notes that the ascospores are always 2-celled. 



The same writer also draws attention to the leaf disease of AVey- 

 niouth Pine caused by the fungus Hypoderma braehysporum. The 

 disease has been very prevalent lately, and an account is given of the 

 various localities where the trees have been attacked. 



Bataille, F. — Notes sur quelques Russules. 



[Several species of Russula are carefully described.] 



Bull. Soc. Mi/col. France, xxiv. (1908) pp. 172-7. 



Bianchi, G. — Micologia della Provineia di Mantova. (Mycology of the Province 

 of Mantua.) 



[The author enumerates 196 microfungi ; three forms are new to science.] 

 Atti 1st. Bot. Univ. Pavia, ser. 2, ix. (1907) pp. 289-319. 

 See also Bot. Centralbl, cviii. (1908) p. 298. 



Boyd, D. A. — On the Occurrence of Sclei-otinia baccarum in Stirlingshire. 



[The first record of the fruiting form of these sclerotia in Britain.] 



Journ. Bot., xlvi. (1908) pp. 299-300. 



Fischer, Ed. — Zur Morphologie der Hypogaeen. (Morphologie of the Hypogese). 



[A discussion of subterranean Ascomycetes ; one new genus, Pseudobalsamia, 



has been instituted.] Bot. Zeit., viii. and ix. (1908) pp. 141-68 (1 pi.) 



Foex, E. — Les Rouilles des Cereales. (Rusts of cereals.) 



[An account of the Uredinese of cereals, and of methods for dealing with 

 them.] Montpelier : Coulet et Fils, 1908, 116 pp. 



Feos, G. — Note sur le Micropera abietis Rostrup. (Note on Micropera alnetis.') 

 [This species of Sphferopsidete was on branches affected by Fusicoccunv 

 abictinum ; the connection with it was not proved.] 



Bull. Soc. Mycol. France, xxiv. (1908) pp. 169-71 (4 figs.). 



Henxisgs, P. — Einige neue parasitische Pilze aus Transvaal. (Some new 

 parasitic fungi from the Transvaal.) 



[The fungi are chiefly Uredinese ; they were collected by 

 T. B. R. Evans.] 



Engler's Bot. Jahrb., xli. heft 4 (1908) pp. 270-3. 

 See also Bot, Centralbl., cviii. (1908) pp. 332-3. 



,, ,, Fungi S. Paulenses. IV. 



[Fungi from Brazil, collected by Puttemans ; many of the 

 species are new.] Hedivigia, xlviii. (190S) pp. 1-20. 



,, ,, Fungi Philippinenses. 1. 



[A list of microfungi. Many new species are described, 

 and one new genus of Xylarise, Merilliopeltis, found 

 on the stalks of a Calamus.] 



Op. cit., xlvii. (1908) pp. 250-65 ; and 

 Philippine Journ. Sci., iii. (1908) pp. 41-58. 



* Tijdschr. Plantenz., (190S) p. 78. See also Bot. Centralbl. cviii. (190S) p. 304. 

 t Nat. Zeitschr. Land. Forstw., vi. (1908) pp. 330-2 (3 figs.), and pp. 327-30 

 (3 figs,). See also Bot. Centralbl., cviii. (1908) p. 365. 



