246 SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



Additions to Lichen Distribution in North America. — Bruce 

 Fink {Mtjcologia, 1919, 11, 296-307). The lichens enumerated were 

 mostly collected in Western America bv the writer in such widely- 

 separated regions as the islands of Puget Sound, British Columbia, and 

 Laggan, Alberta. Other collectors sent contributions from various 

 western areas. A bare list with locality and habitat appended. 



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Contribution to the Lichenographia of Thuringen. — Gr. Lettau 

 {Hedivigia, 1919, 61, 97-175). Lists of lichens from Thiiringia, the total 

 lichen flora for the region numbering, according to the author, about 

 594. Many descriptive and biological notes are added. In an appendix 

 there is a list of fungi parasitic on lichens. A. L. S. 



Mycetozoa. 



Mycetozoa from Cornwall.— G. Lister {Journ. Bot, 1920, 58, 

 127-30). The account of Cornwall Mycetozoa was partly prepared 

 by Dr. A. Adams, who died last autumn. He was a keen student of the 

 group, and experimented with living specimens. Several of the species 

 recorded are new to England. Other collectors who contributed notes 

 are Gr. H. Fox and J. M. Coon. Eighty-two species and four varieties 

 are included, with locaUties of the rarer forms. A. Lorrain Smith. 



Mycetozoa found during the Baslow Foray. — G. Lister {Trans. 

 Brit. 3Iycol, Soc, 1920, 6, 248-52). During two previous forays at 

 Baslow forty-four species of Mycetozoa were found ; the number on the 

 last occasion was forty-five, and fifteen of these are new to Derbyshire. 



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