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destroy them quickly and completely, and attempts have been made 

 with some success to use them in combating insect ravages. The 

 majority of scale insect fungi are tropical, but there are a few in this 

 country which ought to be studied more thoroughly. Search should be 

 made for them during the winter. A. L. S. 



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Mycological Notes.— C. G. liLOYD {Gincinnati, 11)20, 1029-1101, 

 16 pis.). The first plate in this publication is a photograph of 

 0. Mattirolo, a prominent mycologist in Italy, who has done important 

 work on hypogasal fungi. A photograph is also printed of the Rev. — 

 Theiszen, who died from an accident in the mountains in 1919. Lloyd 

 then discusses a very numerous and varied series of fungi that have 

 been sent to him ; most of them are photographed and reproduced on 

 the plates. Lloyd publishes some critical notes on the Myxomycetes, 

 with an expression of his views as to nomenclature. Several of the 

 larger forms of the group are constantly sent to him as fungi. He 

 also criticizes a paper by Mary E. Currie on Slime-moulds. A. L. S. 



Obituary Notice of Emile Boudier. — L. Mangin {Bull. Soc. 3Iycol. 

 Fntnce, 1920, 36, 181-8, portrait). Emile Boudier was born in 1828, 

 and died in 1920 ; he was a Doctor of Pharmacy and lived most of his 

 life at Montmorency. He was an indefatigable and exceedingly careful 

 mycologist. One of his last and best known works is the Irones 

 mycologki, which are greatly admired on account of the fine scientific 

 descriptions and the beautiful reproductions of his drawings of fungi. 

 His publications were begun in 1866 ; the last, called by him Dernieres 

 etincelles myi:olo(jlques, was published in 1917. He founded, along with 

 Quelet and Mougeot, the Mycological Society of France in 1884. He 

 was an honorary member of the British Society. The list of his 

 published works occupies five closely printed pages. A. L. S. 



Fungi from the Island of Malta.— P. A. Saccardo {Nuovo Giorn. 

 Bot. Ital. 1915, 22, 24-76). The fungi were collected by A. 

 Caruana-Gatto and CI. Borg during the years 1918-14, and were 

 determined and listed by the late Professor Saccardo in 1914. He 

 enumerated three hundred and two species or varieties, of which eighty- 

 eight species and eleven sub-species and varieties are ncAv to science. 

 Very little was known previously of the fungus flora of the island, and 

 the number of forms collected was surprising when the xerophytic 

 conditions that prevailed and the absence of natural woods are 

 considered. Saccardo notes the great abundance of Phospora herbarium 

 on many plants, and the large number of Sphccropsideas without the 

 corresponding perfect forms. As an example of the latter case species 

 of Phomopsis are fairly numerous, but only one Diaporthe, the perfect 

 stage, was collected. Many of the new species belong to the 

 Sphaeropside^e. A. L. S. 



Ecological Character and Survey of the Mycological Flora of 

 Libya. — Prof. A. Trotter {jVuovo Giorn. Jhit. Ital., 1915, 22, 

 500-17 : 1916, 23, 5-33, 10 figs.). The mycological flora of Tripoli, 

 Trotter informs us, is undoubtedly a poor one, due to the relative 



