No. 1, August, 1921] MORPHOLOGY AND TAXONOMY, FUNGI, ETC. 53 



MORPHOLOGY AND TAXONOMY OF FUNGI, LICHENS, BACTERIA, 



AND MYXOMYCETES 



H. M. FiTZPATKiCK, Editor 



FUNGI 

 (See also in this issue Entries 151, 219, 492, 515, and those in the section Pathology) 



348. Anonymous. Auskunft iiber Speisepilze. [Information concerning edible fungi.] 

 Naturwiss. Zeitschr. Forst- u. Landw. 18: 278-279. 1920. — Agaricus melleus, well known in 

 Germany as a serious enemy of soft woods, is described with reference to its life-history, 

 morphology, edibility, etc. The edible qualities and food possibilities of the species are 

 emphasized; a recipe for cooking is given. — /. Roeser. 



349. Chipp, T. F. A list of the fungi of the Malay Peninsula. Gardens Bull. Straits 

 Settlements 2: 311-418. 1920. — A complete list of the known fungi of the Peninsula with 

 localities and hosts. — 7. H. Burkill. 



350. Church, A. H. Elementary notes on the morphology of fungi. Bot. Mem. [Oxford] 



7. 29 p. 1920. — These are notes apparently used by the author in connection with some 

 of his courses in botany. — J. S. Cooley. 



351. Clayley, Dorothy M. Some observations on the life-history of Nectria galligena 

 Bres. Ann. Botany 35: 79-92. PI. 4, 5., fig. l-?5. 1921, — A study of the morphology and 

 cultural characters of a fungus isolated from an apple canker in Britain. The writer agrees 

 with Weese that the Nectria which has been shown to form definite cankers on beech and 

 other trees, and which has been discussed in literature under the name Nectria ditissima 

 Tul., should be called N . galligena Bres. This fungus grew well and completed its life-history 

 on a starch medium containing 1 per cent glycerine. All stages of the fungus, — microspores, 

 macrospores, and perithecia,' — develop normally on potato slants with 1 per cent glj'cerine, 

 the latter being the only medium found on which the fungus developed perithecia. Pycnidia 

 were found on bark but no mature pycnidia were seen in pure culture on artificial media. 

 There is thus insufficient proof that pycnidia occur in the life-history of N . galligena. — Several 

 ascogonia occur in the young perithecium; these degenerate and disappear before the forma- 

 tion of the asci. The ascogenous hyphae, from which the asci develop, arise de novo from 

 cells at the base of the perithecium, the nuclei of which have the same characteristics as the 

 nuclei of the ascogonia. The further development of the perithecium could not be followed. — 

 W. P. Eraser. 



352. Garrett, A. 0. Smuts and rusts of Utah — IV. Mycologia 13: 101-110. 1921.— 

 The paper includes discussions of 5 smuts and 45 rusts. Hilaria Jamesii is reported as a new 

 host for Ustilago Hypodytes (Schlecht.) Fries, and Lepidiiim perjoliatum and culivated Tro- 

 paeolum as new hosts for Puccinia subnitens Dietel. — H. R. Rosen. 



353. Gloyer, W. O. Septoria leaf blight on the China aster. [Abstract.] Phytopathology 

 11 : 50-51. 1921. — A new disease of China aster {CalHstephus chinensis) has been under obser- 

 vation in New York State since 1915. The leaves are spotted and finally killed by Septoria 

 Callistephi n. sp. — B. B. Higgins. 



354. Grove, W. B. Mycological notes.— V. Jour. Botany 59: 13-17. 1921.— The new 

 combination Boydia insculpta (Oud.) Grove is made, it being shown that several species 

 supposed by various authors to be distinct are really forms of the same species. A collection 

 of undoubted Puccinia Peucedani-parisiensis (DC.) Lindr. from Britain is discussed. Notes 

 are included on some fresh collections of Phomopsis ahietina Grove. [See also Bot, Absts. 



8, Entry 1294.]— A'. M. Wiegand. 



