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Italian Fungi. — L. Maffei * has listed the first century of his 

 " Micologica Ligustica." The fungi were collected along the Mediter- 

 ranean littoral from Genoa to Albenga. The present contribution takes 

 account only of microfungi, and includes three new species, Jlf/ssarieUa 

 jMlmamm, Ascochyta aqnarae and Septoria Erlohotryse. 



Malusio Turconi f publishes an account of the fungi of Lombardy. 

 These have been to a large extent published in various magazines, and 

 are now gathered together, and the nomenclature given according to 

 modern rules. Those that Turconi has himself collected are printed in 

 darker type. He speaks of the great mycological activity in the 

 Lombardy region during the last twenty years, inspired and directed 

 from the laboratory afc Pavia. The species known number 1,970. 

 Bibliography and index are provided. 



New Spanish Fungi. J — R. G. Fragoso publishes a series of new 

 records of microfungi in Spain ; several of these are new species 

 determined by Bubak or by Fragoso himself. 



New Microfungi, § — M. N. Naoumoff has described a series of new 

 fungi, parasitic and saprophytic on various plants. A new genus, 

 Phseocryptopus, was discovered, similar to Cryptopus^ but with l)rown 

 spores. P. Abietis grows on living leaves of Abies sihirica ; the 

 perithecia are superficial on a wide-spreading brown mycelium. A new 

 species, Rhytiama xylostei, was found on leaves of Lonicera Xylosteum, and 

 proved to be the ascigerous form of Melasmia Lonicerse. Another new 

 genus, Rhizothyrium {Pycnothyriaceae), has dimidiate pycnidia and 

 elongate three-septate spores. 



Fungi from Porto Rico. — J. C. Arthur |1 continues his account of 

 Uredinales based on a collection by F. L. Stevens in Porto Rico, a 

 few species of j^cidium and many species of Uredo. One of the former 

 genus and many of the latter are described as new species. 



Ph. Garman 1 publishes descriptions and notes on other microfungi 

 also collected by Stevens. They are nearly all new to science and are 

 mostly parasitic on leaves. 



Fungi from the Adirondacks.** — W. A. Murrill lists a number of 

 fungi collected at Upper St. Regis. The number of species collected 

 in a week was over 300. Special attention w^as given to edible and 

 poisonous fungi, and about thirty-five species were eaten. The fungus 

 flora of that district he found to be distinctly northern, unmixed with 

 southern elements, and associated with coniferous forests. Lists are 

 given of the genera and species, and views of the neighbourhood are 

 reproduced. 



* Atti 1st. Bot. Pavia, xii. (1915) pp. 1-16 (1 pi.), 

 t Atti 1st. Bot. Pavia, xii. (1915) pp. 57-284. 

 : Bol. Hist. Nat., xvi. (1915) pp. .837-43. 

 § Bull. Soc. Mycol. France, xxx. (1915) pp. 423-32 (4 pis.). 

 II Mycologia, vii. (1915) pp. 315-32. 

 ^ Mvcologia. vii. (1915) pp. 533-40 (1 pi. and 1 tig.). 

 ** Mycologia, vii. (1915) pp. 297-306. 



