No. 1, July, 1920] MORPHOLOGY AND TAXONOMY L63 



1055. Bataili.e, F. Decouverti en France d'une nouvelle station du Phallus impudicus, 

 var. imperialis (Schulz) Lloid. [The discovery of a new place for Phallus impudicus, var. im- 

 perialis in France.] Bull. Trimest. Boc. Mycolog. Prance 34: L95 L97. L919. -The author 

 in. 'lit inns thai Phallus impudicus, var. imperialis, a rare variety, was collected La 1915 on the 

 battlefield of Champagne, Prance. -Fred C. Werkenthin. 



1056. Hi; \r\ i.ki i:, J. [Rev. of: VlNCBNS, F. Recherches organogeniques sur quelques 

 Hypocreales. (Organogenic researches on Hypocreales.) The* Bci. Paris. 170 p. 

 PL 3, fig. 71. 1917.] Rev. Gen. Bot. 31: 122 125. 1919. 



1057. Boas. [Rev. of: DlETBL, P. Ueber einige neue oder bemerkenswerte Arten von 

 Puccinia. (New and interesting species of Puccinia.) Ann. Mycolog. 15: 192-494. 1017.] 



Zeitschr. Pflanzenkrankh. 29:63. 1919. 



1058. Boas. [Rev. of: Neger, F. W. Experimentelle Untersuchungen uber Russtau- 

 pilze. (Experimental studies of sooty fungi.) Flora 10: 67-139. 1917] Zeitschr. Pflanzen- 

 krankh. 29: 64-65. 1919. — Author discusses fungi causing sooty coverings, generally referr* ■<! 

 to as Capnodium and Fumago. In reality this deposit is a mixture of more or less numerous 

 species living upon honeydew covered leaves. Most general are: — Demalium pullulans, 

 Cladosporium herbarum, Penicillium spp., Bulrylis cinerea, yeasts, and bacteria. [See Bot. 

 Absts. 1, Entry 1667.]—//. T. Gussow. 



1059. Boas. [Rev. of: Wartenweiler, H. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Gattung Plasmo- 

 para. [On the genus Plasmopara.) Ann. Mycolog. 15:495^97. 1917.] Zeitschr. Pflanzen- 

 krankh. 29: 62. 1919. 



1060. Bottomley, Averil Maud. A preliminary investigation into a disease attacking 

 young Cupressus plants. South African Jour. Sci. 15:613-617. PI. 18-21. 1919. — See Bot. 

 Absts. 4, Entry 1244. 



1061. Brierly, W. B. Some concepts in mycology — an attempt at synthesis. Trans. 

 British Mycol. Soc. 6: 204-235. 1919. — The author points out that many concepts in biology 

 fail to correspond to reality. The species concept is one of these. He then at considerable 

 length discusses the undesirability of following the methods of the older school of systematists 

 in attempting to delimit species on morphological characters. Another questionable concept 

 called to attention is termed the "educability of fungi." In this connection doubt is ex- 

 pressed concerning the possibility of changing the inherent characters of organisms under 

 control conditions. The paper is fundamental in its application to the study of the fungi 

 and much literature bearing on the general subject is cited. It will prove of interest to stu- 

 dents who are concerned with biological species, with the growing of fungi on differential 

 media, with the phenomenon of facultative parasitism, and other kindred matters. — H. M. 

 Fitzpatrick. 



1062. Briosi, G., and R. Farneti. La moria dei Castagni (mal dell' inchiostro.) [Black 

 canker of chestnut.] Atti 1st. Bot. Univ. Pavia 2, 15: 43-51. Fig. 1-2. 1918.— See Bot. 

 Absts. 3, Entry 2579. 



1063. Btjder, J. Zur Biologie des Bakteriopurpurins und der Purpurbakterien. [Contri- 

 bution to the biology of the purple bacteria and their pigments.] Jahrb. Wiss. Bot. 58: 525-628. 

 PI. 5, fig. 1-5. 1919.— See Bot, Absts. 4, Entry 1429. 



106-1. Burt, E. A. Merulius in North America, supplementary notes. Ann. Missouri 

 Bot. Gard. 6:143-145. 1919. — Merulius rubellus, regarded as a synonym of M. incarnatus 

 Schw. in Burt's work on "Merulius in North America," is a good species and should take the 

 place of .1/. incarnatus in the key to species in that paper. Merulius incarnatus ' 'is the common 

 species with snow-white effuso-reflexed pileus, garnet-colored hymenium, large decompound 

 pores, and small allantoid spores, of the eastern United States," and probably should as hith- 



