408 Eumycetes. 



Juice of Sweet Alford apples in 1904, 1905, and 1906; and two 

 from Kingston Black apples in 1904 and 1906. 



The different varieties of yeast present in the eiders under 

 investigation were isolated by means of fractional plate cultures on 

 10^0 bear-wort gelatine. Various characteristics of the yeasts were 

 used to ascertain the specific characters of each species and to 

 distinguish the varieties from one another. A detailed description 

 of each species isolated is given, and the results drawn up in a 

 comparative table. 



In the five samples investigated fifteen varieties of j^east were 

 isolated of which eleven are undoubtedly distinct varieties, while 

 two kinds found in the 1906 Kingston Black are apparently iden- 

 tical with two isolated from the 1909 Sweet Alford. The results as 

 they stand afford no support to the idea that certain yeasts may be 

 regularly associated with certain apples, or that the fermentations 

 in a eider factory may be carried on mainly by a group of yeasts 

 which may have a regulär habitat there. 



The Chemical characters of the unfermented juice from which 

 the eiders were made as well as of the mature eiders themselves 

 may influence the nature of the yeast flora. Certain experiments 

 on the samples under consideration indicate that there seems to be 

 no reason, in this case at least, for attaching much importance to 

 the Chemical composition of the juice as a selective factor. The five 

 samples examined have floras so diverse that one might perhaps 

 be justified in suggesting that every separate cask of eider had a 

 flora of its own. W. E. Brenchley. 



Rehm. Ascomycetes exsiccati. Fase. 43. (Ann. mycol. VIT. p, 

 134-140. 1909.) 



Die wichtigsten Beitrage zu diesem Fase, sind von den in Bra- 

 silien ansässigen Mycologen Rick und Theissen geliefert worden. 

 Mehrere der hier ausgegebenen Arten sind neu, nämlich: Gorgoni- 

 ceps BaccJiaridis auf B. genistelloides, Cryptodiscus phaneromycoides 

 auf einem Farnstengel, Nectria asperata auf Rinde; der von Gie- 

 senhagen als Sorica Diisenii beschriebene, die Sori eines Polypo- 

 diiini bewohnende, merkwürdige Pilz wird hier als Capnodielhi 

 niaxirna Sacc. bezeichnet; zu Segnesia tnegas wird als Synonym ge- 

 zogen: Microthyriuni cantascirense , wahrscheinlich ist auch die As- 

 terina Licaniae Speg. eine SeynesiadiXl, etc. Neger (Tharandt). 



Sydo"W, H. et P., Micromycetes japonici. (Ann. mycol. VII. p. 

 168—176. 1909.) 



Die nachstehend beschriebenen Pilze sind in Japan von Herrn 

 Ichiro Miyake und von Miss Yoshinaga gesammelt worden. Es 

 finden sich darunter folgende neue Arten: 



Puccinia nielanoplaca auf Patvinia palniata, P. Miyakei auf Carex 

 siderosticta, Aecidium Actinidiae auf Actinidia argiita, AI. Trigonotidis 

 auf Trigonotis pedmtciilaris, Segnesia ilicina auf Hex integra, Septoria 

 Kevriae auf K. japonica, Cevcospora Achyranthis auf Achyranthes 

 hidentata, Cevcospora ohiegens auf Hydrangea hortensis, Hadronema 

 n. g. Dernatiacearurn (von Hadrotrichnvn durch zweizeilige warzige 

 Conidien unterschieden) mit 1 Art: H. orbiciUave auf Q. glaiica, Te- 

 ratosperma n. gen. Deinatiacearian [Tripospoviiini nahestehend, von 

 dieser Gattung durch Entstehungsweise und Gestalt der — bei Teva- 



