594 Fungi. — Brj'ophyten. 



Ferner fand Verf. auf Vanille (ausser verschiedenen Pilzen {Nectria 

 peristomata n. sp., N. coffeicola Zim., Pliysalospora Vanillae 

 n, sp.^ Chaetodiplodla Vanillae n, sp., Colletotrichum macro- 

 sporlum Sacc, C incarnatiim Zim., Fiislcladliim Vanillae n. sp.) 

 noch Chroolepideen, die hier und da Blattflecke verursachen. . 



Küster. 



Lloyd, C. C, The genera of Gastromycetes. (Bulletin of the 



Lloyd library — Cincinnati, Ohio. Bulletin No. 3. 1902.) 



The author gives a short account of the structural characters of the 

 Gastromycetes followed by a System of Classification, which has nothing 

 essentially new. 49 attractive Photographie reproductions of various 

 species are shown on 11 plates. von Schrenk. 



ViLHELM, Jan, Bryologisch-floristische Beiträge aus 

 dem Riesengebirge. (Allgemeine botanische Zeitschrift 

 für Systematik, Floristik, Pflanzengeographie etc. 190L 

 No. 9. p. 147—149.) 



Eine Aufzählung von etwa 100 Laubmoosen, unter welchen für das 

 Gebiet neu sind: Eurhynchiiim cirrosiim Schwgr. var. Funckii Mdo., eine 

 neue Varietät siidetica Velenovsky des Amblystegiiim radicale P. B. 

 und die neue Species Bryum Vilhelmi Podpera. 



Geheeb (Freiburg i. Br.). 



Brown, N[icholas] E[dward], A Revision of the genus Hype- 



rlcophyllum, with not es on certain allied genera of 



Com po sitae. (Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. XXXV. 1902. p. 120 



— 123. plate 6). 



The author gives his reasons for maintaining the genera Jaiimea 

 Fers., Chaetyinenia Hook and Arn. and Espejoa DC, as distinct from 

 Hypericopliyllum Steetz, to which they had been united by Bentham 

 and Hooker, in the Genera Plantarum. Contrasted characters of the 

 various genera are given, drawn up from recent material now at Kew, 

 followed by a conspectus of Hypericopliyllum as circumscribed by the 

 author. Of the five species now recognised, in addition to the original 

 H. compositanim Steetz, these are now referred to that genus, namely : — 

 //. Aiigolensc (p. 122), H. elatum (p. 122) and H. congoensis (p. 123),. 

 formerly ranked ander Jaitmea, by various authors and a new species». 

 H. scahridum (p. 22) from British Central Africa; the plate cited is 

 devoted to this new plant. B. Daydon Jackson. 



Anonymus. A new African Coffee. (Agricultural News^ 



Barbados. Vol. I. 1902. 6.) 



Coffea stenophylla, the Highland Coffee of Sierra Leone is in 

 successful cultivation in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Trinidad. It shews 

 a marked tendency to be cross-fertilized by pollen from Coffea liberica and 

 in the second or third generation its original distinetive characters are 

 almost obliterated. H. H. W. Pearson (London). 



Bailey, F[rederick] Manson, Queensland Palms. (Gardeners 



Chronicle. [3.] Vol. 31. p. 288—289.) 



Referring to a previous notice of Ptychosperma elegans BI. (Gard. 

 Chron. 1902. loc. cit. p. 21) the author states that the palm there figured 



