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with species of Coprinus. Lutz found again the connexion between 

 Ozonium stuposum and Coprinus radian*. 



Fresco-painting of Fungi.* — Leon Marchand has discovered an old 

 Fresco in a chapel near Tours representing the temptation of Eve, in 

 which the serpent is twisted round the tree that is, in reality, a branched 

 sporophore of Amanita. A photograph of the picture was sent to 

 Boudier, who gives a description of it and finds that the artist had 

 evidently A. muscaria in his mind when he made the drawing of the 

 "tree of good and evil." 



Myeological Notes.f— C. G. Lloyd has published a new number of 

 " Notes " relating to matters of interest to mycologists. He remarks on 

 the successful completion by E. Boudier of Icones mycologies?, and gives 

 an account of their publication. He gives also a portrait and note on 

 Paul Klincksieck, the publisher, who has spared neither expense, labour, 

 nor care in producing the plates. 



A note is also published on C. Torrend, the Portuguese mycologist. 

 During the recent revolution in Portugal, the Jesuit College, where 

 Torrend lived, was attacked by the mob and all the collections, micro- 

 scopes, etc., were destroyed. 



A paper follows on Hexagona ; several interesting specimens having 

 been sent by Edouard Luga from the Congo Beige. Lmzites ochroleuca, 

 sent from Bombay, India, proves to be a very variable fungus, rarely 

 two collections being the same as to the hymenium. A photograph is 

 published of Mutinus Bambusinus with a note on other Phalloids. 



Poisoning by Fungi. — E. D. Clarke and J. L. Kantor J have in- 

 vestigated Itiocybe infida, as cases of poisoning were reported as due to 

 eating this fungus. They separated a substance which had toxic effects 

 on frogs, but it was not similar to muscarin. It is rather of the narcotic 

 type, and produces lethargy. 



Louis C. C. Krieger § discusses a case of poisoning, said to have been 

 caused by eating Coprinus comatus, and he suggests that the specimens 

 of Panaeolus campanulatus had been gathered instead of Coprinus. The 

 symptoms were the same as those produced by Panseolus. 



Fat-destroying Fungi. || — Rohstri Ohta supports the statement of 

 Kumagawa, that moulds destroy the fat of beef (organpulver). Of 

 the species examined, Cladosporium herbarum, Penicillium glaucum, 

 Aspergillus glaucus, A. nidulans, and Actinomucor repens, the latter was 

 the most powerful agent ; in three weeks it had destroyed 60 p.c. of fat 

 in the sample tested. Other results of the experiments are noted. 



Research on Diseases of Trees. If — E. Naunch has attempted by 

 means of infection experiments to determine the causes that induce 



* Bull. Soc. Mycol. France, xxvii. (1911) pp. 31-3 (1 pi.). 



t Cincinnati, Ohio, No. 37 (1911) pp. 493-508 (4 portraits and 9 figs.). 



; Mycologia, iii. (1911) pp. 175-88 (1 pi.). 



§ Mycologia, iii. (1911) pp. 200-2. 



|| Biochem. Zeitschr., xxxi. (1911) p. 177. See also Centralbl. Bakt., xxx. (1911) 

 p. 493. 



^ Naturw. Zeitschr. Land.-Forstw., viii. (1910) pp. 389-408 and 425-47. See 

 also Ann. Mycol., ix. (1911) p. 308. 



