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ria on Grapes, Sphaeria BidicelUi, which he regards as the ascigerous con- 

 dition of Plioma uvicola B. and C. In the Bot Gazette are Notes on 

 Fungi, by M. E. Banning, and North Americaii Sp^'.cies of Septoria, by Yon 

 Thuemen ; a Catalogue of the FaciJiG Coast Fungi, by H. W. Harkness and 

 J. P. Moore, including a large number of species, was read before the 

 California Academy of Sciences and afterwards issued in an octavo form. 

 Grevillea contains papers on California fungi, by Cooke and Harkness, 

 and on New York fungi, by Cooke. 



The fungi of the herbarium of the late M'lle Libert have been the sub- 

 ject of i)apers in Grevillea by Cooke, Reliquae Libertiance, and by liou- 

 meguere and Spegazziui in the Eevue Mycologique, Fevisio Feliquice 

 Lihertiance, and specimens have been distributed also by Yon Thiiemeu 

 in Mycotheca Universalis. Cooke has a number of papers in Grevillea; 

 Observations on Feziza; on Hymenochacte and its allies; descriptions of 

 British and Indian fungi; and South African and Australian fungi by 

 Kalchbrenner and Cooke. Hedwigia has a number of notices of Swiss 

 fungi, especially Uredinew, by Winter, and new fungi from tbe Jura and 

 the Yosges are described iu Grevillea by Quelet. Additions to the 

 mycological flora of Finland have been made by Karsteu, and to the 

 Italian flora by Saccardo, Spegazziui, and Passerini in Mitihelia, and 

 the Atti Soc. Critt. Ital. The Eevue Mycologique contains descripti9ns 

 of new fungi by Eoumeguere, Yon Thiimen, Passerini, Spegazziui, and 

 others. « 



Developmental works on fungi have not been numerous. Hartig has 

 connected Calyptospora Ooeppertiana Kiihn with ^Fcidium coluiunare A. 

 and S. by means of experimental cultures. Eathay experimented on the 

 connection between different species of Gymnosporangium and Roestelia, 

 and differs from Oersted in believing that K. pcniciUata is the aecidial 

 form of G. Juniperinum, and not of G. clavariaforme. The development 

 of the spores iu Uroeystis colchiei has been observed by Prilleux, who 

 has a paper on the subject iu the Annales des Sciences. In the Beit- 

 rage Zur Biologic is a pai^er by Eidam, Beitrag Zur Kenntiiiss der Gym- 

 noasceen, in Avhich he gives the development of Ctenomyces serratus and 

 Gymnoascus vncinatus. Fischer, in the Botanische Zeitung, has shown 

 that the enigmatical round and spiny bodies found in Saprolegnia spe- 

 cies are not organs of the Saprolegnia, but parasites, ai)parently related 

 to Chytridium. Eeinke has studied the chemical composition of the lAskS- 

 modium of Aethalium septicum, the principal constituent of which he finds 

 to be plastiu, which he has studied in detail. 



ARCHEGONIATA. 



Iu the United States, the principal publication has been the Ferns of 

 North America, by Professor Eaton, which reached completion this year, 

 including in all 181 plates and accompanying descriptions. Besides 

 this principal work there is a paper in the Bull. Torrey Club, on New or 



