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FUNGI EX8ICCATI. 



Austrian Fungi, it would have been as well not to have included so 

 large a proportion of these in his Mycotheca Universalis. The 

 idea, however, of such a collection as this is a good one, and we 

 hope that extra European countries will gradually exclude those in 

 which good collections have already been published. 



Rabenhozst's Fungi Euzopaei. Cent, xix.— This series is too well 

 known to need commendation. It contains contributions from the 

 majority of European Mycologists of note, whose names are a 

 sufficient guarantee, although perhaps not of uniformity, yet of 

 general accuracy. 



Sphsexiacei Britannici. Cent ii. C. B. Plowright. — It is an ex- 

 cellent plan which Mr. PlowrigUt has adopted to confine his fasciculi 

 to the Sphceriacei, whilst Mr. Phillips illustrates the Elcellucei, and 

 the Eev. J. E. Vize the leaf parasites. This method secures to 

 students of special groups specimens belonging to such groups in a 

 larger number and at a more moderate price than if mixed with others 

 in a general collection, for which probably they care little. This 

 plan is also calculated to confine the attention of the Editors them- 

 selves within narrower limits, and greater accuracy, as well as the 

 acquisition of new or rare species, is more likely to result. This 

 second Fasciculus of the " Sphseriacei Britannici " contains 

 amongst rarities Torruhia entomorrhizo, Hypocrea delicatula, 

 Hypomyces torminosus, Dothidea Piggotii, 3Ielanconis longipes, 

 Lophiostoma angiistilabra, and Sp>hcEria {jnacrospora) Scitpi, and of 

 species entirely new, or new to Great Britain, we notice Hypo- 

 creopsis p)'*^lclira ; Nectria mammoidea, Diapoi'the Beckhausii, Dia- 

 2J0rthe samaricola, Diaporthe spina, Cucurbitaria Diilcamarce, 

 Sphceria (sordaria) equorum, Spihccria carbo?iaria, Sphceria 

 (Delitschia) Winteri, Sphceria applanata, Sphcerella Iridis, and 

 Sj)hcerella Typha;. Most of these have been announced or 

 described in previous numbers of " Grevilloa," and we trust that 

 Mr. Plowright will continue his Fasciculi until he has exhausted 

 the British Spha?riacei, even though he does not reap the sub- 

 stantial reward of pecuniary remuneration commensurate with the 

 labour entailed. 



Fungi Britannici. By the Eev. J. E Vize. Fasc. i. & ii. — These 

 two centuries profess to be confined to such groups as the parasitic 

 Coniomycetes, the Pti-onosporiacei, and such Fungi as are parasitic 

 on living plants ; at least, so we comprehend the scope of the 

 Editor's intentions. We cannot exactly comprehend what may be 

 gained by the introduction of such species as Torula herbarum, 

 Sporocybe byssoides, &c., unless the collection is intended to merge 

 into a general collection of Microscopical Fungi. If this is not 

 the intention, then we would submit that in the end its editor will 

 find a manifest advantage in confining himself vtithin definite 

 limits, however artificial those limits may be. We observe in the 

 two fasciculi published some very interesting species, such as 



