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Fungi Gallici and Fungi Veneti by Saccardo, who has, in addition, 

 issued parts 28 to 32 of his Fungi Italici Delineati. lu Hedicigia are 

 descriptions of new Ascomycetes by Eehm, and new Sordarice bj' Oude- 

 mans. Bainier, in his J^tude sur les MucorinSes, describes several new 

 species of that order, and Blytt describes a new species of Myxomy- 

 Cetes, Glastoderma De Baryanum. The development of the sclerotium of 

 Feziza sclerotiorum has been published by Mattirolo in the Giorn. Bot. 

 Schrceter has notes on the genus Fhysoderma in the Bericht Schles. 

 Gesellsch. Fungi rom South America have been described by Speg- 

 gazzini; from Australia by Cooke, and from the Cape of Good Hope by 

 Kalchbreuner, the last two of which appeared in Orevillea. The Revue 

 Mycologique contains numerous notices of fungi by Eoumeguere, includ- 

 ing notes on the species included in Fungi Gallici Exsiccati^ which has 

 reached the " 24th century." 



Of works relating to the diseases of plants caused by fungi should 

 be mentioned R. Hartig's Lehrbuch der BaumJcranJcheiten. Michelia 

 contains an elaborate article by Penzig, Funglii Agrumicoli, in which 

 he describes all the species of fungi known by him to be parasitic on 

 different species of Citrus. The diseases of grape-vines have been 

 treated by Millardet, Thuemen, and Comes. In his paper on Pourridie 

 et Phylloxera, Millardet ascribes the rotting of vines at first attacked 

 by Phylloxera to the growth of Bhyzomorpha fragilis, whose action 

 on the roots and young stems he describes and figures. Thuemen 

 ascribes the origin of the rotting of the roots to the moisture in the 

 ground. Comes considers what is known in Italy as the Mai Fero to 

 be a gummy degeneration like similar diseases in the Amygdalece. 

 Prillieux, in the Comptes Bendus, describes the change produced in 

 grapes by mildew. Marshall Ward presented to the Linnaean Society 

 the results of his later observations on the coffee-leaf disease, giving 

 still stronger reasons than before for considering the fungus Hemiltia 

 vastatrix to belong to the Uredinew. Prillieux regards the rot of 

 grapes as caused primarily by Peronospora viticola, and states that 

 Phoma uvicola follows, but is not the cause of the disease. He also 

 notes the occurrence of disease of beets in France caused by Pero- 

 nospora jSchachtii. Of works relating to disease in animals caused by 

 plants of a higher grade than bacteria, we should mention the Actino- 

 myltosis des Menschen, in which Ponfick describes and figures a species of 

 Actinomyces, which attacks primarily the lower jaw in man, causing a 

 disease similar to one already known to occur in cattle. The diseases 

 produced by the growth of species of Aspergillus is the subject of a 

 paper by L. Lichtheim^ in the Berlin Klinische Wochenschrift. 



AlgcB. — Among the more important works on the development and 

 general structure of algae should be mentioned the Chromatophoren der 

 Algen by Fr. Schmitz, in which he gives an account of the morphology 

 and development of the colored body in the cells of algae. These 



