486 RECORD OF SCIENCE FOR 1887 AND 1888. 



embraces tlie Schigomycetes, Zygomycetes, and Oomycetes. Raben- 

 horst's "Krypogamen Flora v. Deutsclilaml n. s. w., Pilze," has 

 reached parts 27 aud 28, being the last contribution from the lamented 

 Winter. Part 27 comi)letes the Sphaeriacese and includes the small 

 sub-order Dothideace;p. Part 28 commences the Hysteriaceae and em- 

 braces the families Hysterinea^, Hypodermife, and Dichaenacese. 

 " Cooke's Illustrations of British Fungi" has now reached parts 46 to 48. 



Martin's "Enumeration and Description of the Septorias of North 

 America" ( Journ. Mic, iii) includes one hundred and eighty-eight species 

 of Septoria, eight of Pleospora, twenty of Rhabdospora, and eight of 

 Phlyctaena. He also gives a convenient index to the species and a list 

 of the host-plants. "The Synopsis' of North American Species of 

 Xylaria and Poronia," by Ellis and Bverhart {I.e., iii), describes thirty 

 species of Xylaria and two species of Poronia. The same authors have 

 a "Synopsis of the North American Species of Hapoxylon and Num- 

 mularia {I. c, IV). Phillips' " Manual of British Discomycetes," recently 

 published as a volume of the International Scientific Series, will be 

 useful to American as well as English students, as many of the species 

 described are common to both countries. The work describes nine 

 orders, forty-nine genera and about six hundred species. The genus 

 Phleospora has been monographed by Berllase (Nuov. Giorn. Bot. ct al., 

 XX), who makes out about one hundred and five species, and DeToni 

 (Rev. Mycol., July, 1887) has a "Revisio Monographica Geasteris e. 

 Tribu Geasteromycetum." He recognizes forty-eight species, and Mor- 

 gan, who reviewed the paper in Am. Nat., xxi, describes two additional 

 species from Nebraska. "Les Hymenomycetes D'Europe," by Potouil- 

 lard, is also a valuable work. As this is the first volume of "Materi- 

 aux pour L'Historie des Champignons," it is devoted to general 

 anatomy and classification. 



Of exsicati, Ellis' " North American Fungi" has reached centuries 

 20 and 21, and Roumeguere's "Fungi selecti exiscati prsecepue GalliflB 

 et AlgeresB" has passed through centuries xlii-xlv. 



Farlow and Trelease have done a most valuable work in compiling 

 "A list of Works on North American Fungi," which is issued by the li- 

 brary of Harvard College. The report of the botanist of the State of 

 New York, Peck, in " Fortieth Ann. Rept. N. Y. State Mus. Nat. Hist, 

 for 1886," contains descriptions of about forty new species. 



As it is imi)ossible to attempt anything like a complete enumeration 

 of all the work that has been done, the following list of articles that 

 have appeared in American periodicals, with a few of the more im- 

 portant foreign papers, will convey some idea of its magnitude. The 

 following have appeared in the Journal of Micology from July, 1887, to 

 June, 1888: Calkins, "Notes on Florida Fungi; " Ellis and Everhart, 

 " New Kansas Fungi, Additions to Hypocreacete, New Species of Fungi 

 from various localities. New Iowa Fungi, Additions to Ramularia;" 

 Tracy and Galloway, " Notes on Western Erysiphene and Peronospo- 



