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ria on Grapes, Spliaeria BidweUii, which he regards as the ascigerous con- 

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

 Fungi, by M. E. Banning, and North American Species of 8eptoria, by Von 

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

 J. P. Moore, including a hirge 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 2^ew York fungi, by Cooke. 



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

 ject of papers in Grevillea by Cooke, Reliquae Libertiance, and by liou- 

 meguere and Spegazzini in the Revue Mycologique, Eevisio Reliquiw 

 Libertiance, and specimens have been distributed also by Von Thiiemen 

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

 Observations on Peziza; on Hymenochaete 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 Uredinece, by Winter, and new fungi trom the Jura and 

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

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

 Italian flora by Saccardo, Spegazzini, and Passerini in Michelia, and 

 the Atti Soc. Critt. Ital. The IJevue Mycologique contains descriptions 

 of new fungi by Roumeguere, Von Thiimen, Passerini, Spegazzini, and 

 others. 



Developmental works on fungi have not been numerous. Hartig has 

 connected Calyptospora Goeppertiana Kiihn with ^Fcidium cohimnare A. 

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

 connection between ditferent species of Gymnosporangium and Roestelia, 

 and differs from Oersted in believing that li. peniciUata is the aecidial 

 form of G. Juniperinum, and not of G. clavariceforme. The develoi)ment 

 of the spores in Urocystis colchici has been observed by Prilleux, who 

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

 rage Zur Biologic is a paper by Eidam, Beitrag Zur Kenntniss der Gym- 

 noasceen, in which he gives the development of Ctenomyces serratns and 

 GymnoasGus uncinatus. Fischer, in the Botauische Zeitung, has shown 

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

 cies are not organs of the Saprolegnia, but parasites, apparently related 

 to Chytridiiun. Reinke has studied the chemical composition of the Plas- 

 modium of Aethalium septicum,t\ie i)rincipal constituent of which he finds 

 to be plastin, which he has studied in detail. 



AECHEGONIATA. 



In the United States, the principal ijublication has been the Ferns of 

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

 including in aU 181 plates and accompanying descriptions. Besides 

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



