422 SUMMAllY OF GURREXT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



New British Hymenomycetes.— A. A. Pearson {Trans. Jlrit. 

 Mycol. Soc, l'J21, 7, 55-8). Species of Exidia, Sebarina, Gorticiuni, 

 Feniophora, Hyporhnns and AhwronelJa new to this country are listed 

 and described. A new variety of Hypochnus roseo-griset/s var. lavan- 

 didaceus has been established on account of the colour, " without trace 

 of pink." A. L. S. 



Critical Notes on New or Little-known Hymenocytes. — H. 

 BouRDOT and L. Maire {Bull. tSoc. Mycol. France, 11)20, 36, G9-85, 

 1 fig.). The authors' notes range over a large number of species and 

 over many points — on form, colour, development, type of spores, etc. 

 The species discussed are resupinates. A. L. S. 



Cortinarius suaveolens Bataille et Joachim. — Frederic Bataille 

 (Bull. Soc. Mycol. France, 1920, 36, 85-6). A beautiful species 

 collected at Fontainebleau and distinguished from closely allied species 

 by a penetrating odour of orange flower. A. L. S. 



Chlamydospores of Fomes officinalis in Nature. — ^\. H. Snell 

 {PliytO'pathology, l'J21, 11, 173-5, 1 fig.). These secondary spores, 

 colourless, globoid or ellipsoid, and rather small, are constantly formed 

 in cultures. They have now been found on a piece of timber rotted by 

 the fungus. Attempts to germinate these spores were unsuccessful. 



A. L. S. 



Fungi from Tonkin. — N. Patouillard {Bull. Soc. Mycol. France, 

 1920, 36, 17-4-7). The fungi are mostly minute forms'; several species 

 and varieties are new to science. Patouillard takes occasion to criticize 

 Atkinson's Eocronartium. typhuloldes. He considers it a member of the 

 senus Hellcohasidiuni. A. L. S. 



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List of Micromycetes from Spain.— Gr. B. Traverso {Bull. Soc. 

 Bot. Ital., 1915, 3, 22-G). The species were collected by Gonzales 

 Fragoso and submitted to Traverso for determination. There are twelve 

 in all, most of them new to science, and chiefly Spha^ropsidales. 



A. L. S. 



Polyporacese of Bengal, Part IV.— S. E. Bose {Bull. II. Garmichael 

 Med. Coll. Belgachia, 1921, 11, 1-5, 13 pis.). Bose has written clear 

 descriptions of fifteen species which he has found in Bengal — with one 

 exception. They are finely illustrated by photographic plates showing 

 both surfaces. A. L. S. 



Fungi Parasitic on Scale Insects. — T. Fetch {Trans. Brit. Mycol. 

 Soc, 1921, 7, 18-40). The paper was given by T. Fetch as his 

 Presidential Address to the members of the British Mycological Society. 

 The earliest fungus recorded on a scale insect was by Desmazieres in 

 18'18, who instituted for it a new genus Microcera. It was the conidial 

 stage of a Sphserostilbe, several of which have been found on scale 

 insects. The writer describes these and the history of their occurrence. 

 He also gives an account of the fungi on the same insects — species of 

 Cordyceps, Aschersonia, Hypocrella, Myriangium, Scptobasidium, Fusarium 

 and other Hyphomycetes. When the fungi attack the insects they 



