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Shite by the State botanist Mr. C. H. Peck, together with an account 

 of certain common injurious fungi. Peck has also several papers on 

 new fungi in the Torrey Bulletin, including a new fern rust, Cceoma 

 Cheilanthis, and a new genus, Neopeckia Sacc, founded on the older 

 Sphceria Coulteri Pk. A considerable number of new species of the 

 United States have been described in the Torrey Bulletin by Ellis and 

 Kellennann and in the Am. Naturalist by Ellis and Martin. Hedwigia 

 lias notes and descriptions of several United States fungi by Winter, 

 some of the descriptions being also given in Torrey Bulletin. Farlow 

 in Broc. Am. Acad. Boston gives critical notes and descriptions of some 

 of the species contained in the 3d and 11th centuries of Ellis's North 

 American Fungi. The Beronosporecc of the United States is the title of 

 a paper presented by Farlow at the meeting of the Soc. Promotion of 

 Agriculture at Minneapolis, and printed with a supplement in the Bot. 

 Gazette. The same writer has also a paper on Some Ustilaginece of the 

 United Statts, also in the Bot. Gazette. A description and figure of a 

 Phallus collected in Pennsylvania by Rau, B. togatus Kalch., are given 

 in the Gazette, and in a later number is a note by Farlow who regards 

 the species as identical with P. duplicatus Bosc. The Broc. Cincinnati 

 Soc. Nat. Hist, has a paper by A. P. Morgan, Mycologic Flora of the 

 Miami Valley, with full descriptions of the Agaricini known to occur in 

 that region, illustrated by 9 colored plates. Morgan has also notes on 

 some Kentucky fungi in the Gazette. The species of Vromyces found in 

 Iowa are fully described by J. C. Arthur in the Bull. Minnesota Acad. 

 Sci. A new species of Entomophthora infesting Caloptenus dijferentialis 

 is described by Bessey in Am. Naturalist. New American fungi have 

 also been described by Cooke in Grevillea, where among other things he 

 reports the appearance of a new Cycloderma in Ohio, and states that 

 Milleria herbatica Pk. is the long-lost Testicularia Gyperi Klotzsch. 



In Bot. Gazette A. B. Seymour has a note on the synonymy of Buccinia 

 heterospora B. & C. A partial List of the Fungi of Wisconsin is given 

 by W. F. Buudy in the Geology of Wisconsin, Vol. i. 



The most extensive systematic work on fungi which has appeared 

 <luriug the year is the second volume of Saccardo's Syllogc Fungorum 

 including the remainder of the Byrenomycetes. Saccardo has also issued 

 a series of plates illustrating the fruit of the genera included in the first 

 two volumes of the Sylloge under the title Genera Byrenomycetum Schema- 

 tise Delineata, and the Fungi Italici Delineati have been continued to 

 No. 1440. The classification of Saccardo is not accepted by Cooke in 

 many points, and in Grevillea the latter has given a revision of some of 

 the genera already treated by Saccardo, viz, Xylaria, Hypoxylon, Xum- 

 mularia, Anthostoma and their allies, and in the Journal of Botany a 

 revision of Splucrella. The first volume of Cooke's Illustrations of British 

 Fungi, including the Leucospori in 292 plates, lias been completed, and 

 the beginning of the second volume lias a number of the Hyporhodii. 

 Qrevillea has also a notice of new British Funt/i by Cooke, a classifica- 



