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New Species of Fungi. XIII. — H. and P. Sydow (An7i. 3fycol., 



1915, 13, 34-43, 2 figs.). The fungi described came from many parts, 

 mostly from Asia and Africa. They comprise species of Uredinese and 

 Ustilagineae, Ascomycetes and Denteromycetes. Of special interest are 

 a new species of Eurytheca from Trinidad, and a new genus of Dema- 

 teaceae, Gheirojjodium. There are no specialized conidiophores in the 

 latter ; the conidia rise directly from the creeping mycelium, which also 

 bears hair-like tufts. G. flagellatwn grew on living leaves of Carex in 

 Japan. A. L. S. 



Contributions to the Fungus-Flora of Moravia and Austrian 

 Silesia.— F. Petrak {Ann. Mycol, 1915, 13, 44-51). The author 

 gives a short list of known fungi, and then describes at length a con- 

 siderable number of new species of minute Ascomycetes, with copious 

 biological notes. 



In a subsequent contribution (Atm. MycoL, 1916, 14, 159-76) 

 Bubak continues his account of these minute fungi belonging to the 

 Pyrenomycetes and also to Fungi Imperfecta He again diagnoses many 

 new species. He discusses various specific points, such as the occurrence 

 of the black stroma line in Phomopsis, a feature by no means constant. 



In a further paper (A7in. My col., 1916, 14, 440-3) Petrak records 

 a new genus, CucurUtariella, with congregate perithecia and brown 

 simple spores. G. moravica sp. n. grew on branches of Primus spinosa ; 

 four new species of Phomopsis are also added to science and to the 

 fungus-flora of Moravia. A. L. S. 



Further Contributions to the Fungus-Flora of Switzerland. — 

 Otto Jaap {Ann. Mycol, 1917, 15, 97-124). This is a second list of 

 Swiss fungi by the author. The species were collected by him in a 

 journey through Switzerland in the summer of 1910, and at Lugano in 

 1913. He gives a short list of Myxomycetes. The fungi are all micro- 

 fungi, belonging to many different groups. A number of species are 

 new to science. A. L. S. 



Fungi Indias Orientalis. Part V.— H. and P. Sydow and E. J. 

 Butler {Ann. MycoL, 1916, 14, 177-220). The present contribution 

 deals with Sphseropsidese and a few Melanconieae. H. Diedecke helped 

 in the determination of the new fungi. Many of the new species are 

 parasites on Indian plants, and were collected in various parts of India.. 

 The new genera are : Phyllostictina Syd., which differs from Phyllosticta. 

 in that the spores are involved in mucus; Pleosphaeropsis, in which 

 the spores become brown; Gystophsera Died., nearly akin to the 

 preceding, but differing in the absence of mucus ; Plenozythia Syd. 

 (Nectrioidese), with simple spores ; and Diplozythiella Died., with two- 

 celled spores. There is also a new genus in Leptostromataceae, Siro- 

 thyrium Syd., in which the membranaceous stroma is not stellate as in 

 Sirothyriella. A. L. S. 



Novae Fungorum Species. XIV. — H. and P. Sydow {Ann. Mycol. y 



1916, 14, 256-62, 1 fig.). Sydow gives diagnoses of fungi mostly from 



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