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nexions in the mycelium and of biuucleate cells that proved the affinity 

 of this fungus. 



American Basidiomycetes.* — W. A. Murrill publishes a coloured 

 plate of five species of Agaricacete, with full descriptions of the plants. 

 The present series includes five Russulse, most of them European as well 

 as American. Murrill is careful to tell the kind of woods in which the 

 species commonly grow. 



British Mycology. t — An account is published of two forays of the 

 British Mycological Society : one of these at Baslow in Derbyshire in 

 the end of May, 1915. As usual the gatherings of fungi in early summer 

 belonged to the Ascomycetes and parasitic fungi rather than to the 

 Basidiomycetes. Some species new to Britain were found and one new 

 species, Dermatea nidulariformis, described by Rea. About 155 species 

 were recorded. 



A second foray in the end of September was held at Swansea, and 

 resulted in the collection of 3'.)7 different species, the Basidiomycetes 

 figuring largely in the list ; 200 species were new records for the 

 Swansea disti-ict, several being new to Britain. 



E. F. Linton J has published two accounts of the fungi of East 

 Dorset. In one he gives a careful account of the habitat of each plant 

 as well as the locality. There are examples from all the different 

 groups, including six species of Mycetozoa. 



In the second paper,§ which includes a large number of species, the 

 habitat and locality are also given. Only the Agaricaceae are so far 

 dealt with. The district worked over is almost entirely on a tertiary 

 formation, and light sandy soils preponderate. There is also some chalk 

 and a strip of heavier soils. 



♦Somerville Hastings j| publishes an account of the " Fungi of Bare 

 Pine Woods " as exemplified at Oxshott Heath. The most abundant fungi 

 in that locality are PaxiUus involutus, which occur singly or in pairs 

 uniformly scattered over the area ; Flammula sapinia grouped rather 

 thickly round the pine trees, and in addition close groups of Boletus 

 bovinus and Hyyrophorus hypotliejus growing ten or twenty together. 



E. A. Ilea,ir in her presidential address to the members of the British 

 Mycological Society^ gave an account of the progress in illustrating 

 fungi. She passed in review the various mycologists who have enriched 

 our" knowledge with their careful drawings, and she comments on the 

 art and style as well as on the scientific knowledge of the various artists. 

 The first known illustration was found on a fresco at Pompeii, and has 

 been identified as Lactarius deliciosus. The next, also a fresco painting, 

 was depicted on a chapel near the Castle of Plaincourault in the Indre, 

 France. There follows a long list of botanists who have devoted their 

 artistic powers to portraying these elusive plants. 



* Mycologia, viii. (1916) pp. 121-4 (1 pi.), 

 t Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc, v. (1916) pp. 187-92, and 196-207. 

 X Proc. Dorset Nat. Hist. Antiq. Field Club, sxxvi. (1915) pp. 148-96. 

 § Journ. Bot., iiii. (1915) pp. 313-21. 

 J Selb. Mag., xxvii. (1916) pp. 63-7 (5 figs.). 

 1 Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc, v. 2 (1915) pp. 211-28. 



