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history of the various species, but the author has hunted out the facts 

 ah-eady published, and has added his own experience of cultures. Five 

 .species are known in New Zealand — four of them being endemic— and 

 they attain to considerable size. The author gives the figures of these 

 species, with figures of the larvae and insects which are parasitized by 

 the fungus. A. Ij. S. 



Notes on a New LophiostomacesB. — Gonsalez Fragoso {Bull. 

 Soc. Ml/col. France, 1920, 36, 103-0, 2 figs.). Fragoso places his new 

 fungus provisionally under Luphiostrema. It grew on withered fronds 

 of Pteris aqniUna. A description is given of the development of the 

 species. A. L. S. 



Two Species of Pestalozzia. — Martino Savelli {Bull. Soc. Bot. 

 ltd., 1917, 0-7, 62-8, 8 figs.). Savelli describes two new species — onC; 

 Pestalozzia Lucse, grew on the living leaves of an oak : the other, 

 P. Feijose, v.'as found covering with mycelium and conidia the fruits of 

 Feijoa Sellowiana. The new species are compared with others, and their 

 development and spore-germination are described. A. L. S. 



New or Rare British Discomycetse. — Carleton Re a {Trans. 

 Brit. Mycol. Soc, 1921, 7, 58-01). Here are described seven Discomy- 

 cetes, mostly new to the British flora. One species, Ascocorticium 

 anomalum, represents a genus new to the country. It was collected by 

 A. A. Pearson on bark of Finns at Weybridge. Another new species, 

 Ni])tera Taxi, was also collected by Pearson. Several of the species 

 were found by Menzies in the neighbourhood of Perth. A. L. S. 



Studies in the Physiology of Parasitism : VL Infection by 

 Sclerotinia libertiana. — C. Boyle {Ann. Bot, 1921, 35, 387-47, 1 pL). 

 The author studied the early stages of infection of bean leaves by 

 hyphffi of the fungus. From the top of each hypha tliere arises a 

 special infection hypha, usually very narrow, which under appropriate 

 conditions penetrates the host. The rupture of the cuticle by this 

 hypha appears to be due solely to mechanical action. After penetration 

 the host tissue beneath rapidly becomes disorganized. A. L. S. 



Geoglossacese. — C. G. Lloyj) {Cincinnati, 0/iio, May, 1910, 1 pi., 

 figs. 782-807). Lloyd commends Durand's work on this group, though 

 he himself prefers to follow an older grouping with sis genera. Durand 

 has distinguished eleven genera in the family. Lloyd gives figures 

 of most of the species, and gives descriptions with habitats and localities. 



A. L. S. 



New Species of Yeast, Debaryomyces Klockerii. — A. GtUILLIER- 

 MOND and Pe.ju {Bull. Soc. Mycol. Frame, 1920, 36, 164-71, 8 pis.). 

 The yeast was isolated from the throat of a patient. It was cultivated 

 on various media, and giant cells, mycelium and asci were produced. 

 The authors discuss the affinity of the new yeast, and note the close 

 relationship to the Endomycetaceaj. They place it in Debaryomyces on 

 account of the Torala form of the budding cells, the heterogamic 

 copulation and the characteristic form of the ascospores ; the latter have 

 a fairly thick verrucose epispore. A. L. S. 



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