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List of the Discomycetes of Perthshire. — James Menzies {Trans. 

 Perthshire Soc. Nat. ScL, 1919, 72-7). The author has brought together 

 all the Discomycetes that have been recorded in that county ; those from 

 the Perth district were found by himself. The list is long and represen- 

 tative of British species. With the list is associated the description of a 

 rare Myxomycete, LindhJadia effiisa. It grew on sawdust, and when in 

 full vigour looked like a great splash of tar. A. L. S. 



South African Perisporiaceae. 11. — Ethel M. Doidge (Trans. 

 Roij. Soc. S. Africa, 1919, 7, 193-7, ?> figs.) reviews and corrects the 

 description of Meliola torta Doidge. She finds on the same host a second 

 species, M. scabra and Asterina sp., also another fungus, Perisporina 

 meUoliicola sp. n., parasitic on the mycelium of Meliolse. A. L. S. 



South African Perisporiaceae. III. — Ethel M. Doidge {Trans, 

 Roy. Soc. S. Africa, 1919, 8, 107-10, 1 pi.) describes four species of 

 Meliola from Natal and the eastern part of the Cape Province, hitherta 

 unrecorded from South Africa. Full descriptions and figures of these 

 species are given. A. L. S. 



South African Perisporiaceae. IV.— Ethel M. Doidge {Trans. Rotj, 

 Soc. S. Africa, 1919, 8, 111-5, 2 pis.) in this contribution gives diagnoses 

 of six new species of Meliola, two species of Zukalia, and PhseodimerieUa 

 asterinicola sp. n., the latter parasitic on the mycelium of Asterina. All 

 of them grew on leaves from various regions of South Africa, but mostly 

 from Natal. A. L. S. 



South African Perisporiaceae. V. — Ethel M. Doidge {Trans. Roy. 

 Soc. S. Africa, 1919, 8, 137— 43, 2 pis.) describes a number of new species 

 of Meliola from Natal, and lists a number of species already recorded 

 from South Africa or elsewhere on the same or on different hosts. 



A. L. S. 



Mycological Notes.— Ethel M. Doidge {Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Africa, 

 1920, 8, 117-9). The paper contains notes on Asterodothis Solaris 

 (K. and Cke.) Th., a frequent parasite on leaves of Olea verrucosa in 

 South Africa. The author gives several new records for other leaf -fungi, 

 and describes two new species. A. L. S. 



Meliolaster, a New Genus of the Microthyriaceae. — Ethel M. 

 Doidge {Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Africa, 1920, 8, 121-3) places the new 

 genus in the group of Hemisphaeriales, as it bears a perithecium or 

 " thyriothecium " of hemispherical form. Meliolaster combines characters 

 of Meliola and Asterina ; it grows on leaves of Pijieris capensis in Natal. 



A. L. S. 



Descriptions of New Fungi Imperfecti from the Philippines. — 

 H. DiEDECKE [Ann. Mycol., 191G, 14, 02-4). There are eight new 

 species in the list and two new genera, Bakcroplioma and Macropliomella, 

 both related to Phoma, but the pycnidia seated on a subiculum, or 

 furnished with setae at the apices. A. L. S. 



