March 1907] Notes from Mycological Literature 81 



Sheldon, John L. 



Under the title of "A Rare Uromyces" is given an account 

 of observations on Aecidium houstoniatum Schw., on Houstonia 

 coeralea L. and the Uromyces on Sisyrinchium graminoides Bick. 

 Clumps of Hbustonia with aecidia were transplanted beside plants 

 of Sisyrinchium, and a short time thereafter the latter developed 

 Uredosori. Are the two Rusts alternate forms or at all connected? 

 That on Sisyrinchium differed from the description of the U. 

 sisyrinchii Mont., it has uredospores, differently shaped teleuto- 

 spores which germinate at maturity in the living host, and the 

 epispore is smooth. A full technical description is given. See 

 Torreya, 6 1249, Dec. 1906. 



Annales Mycologici, vol. Ill, No. 6, Dec. 1905. 



The Inhalt of this No. reads as follows: Salmon, Ernest S., 

 On the Variation shown by the Conidial stage of Phyllactinia 

 corylea (Pers.) Karst. I; Saccardo, P. A., Notae Mycologicae; 

 Rehm, H., Ascomycetes Americae borealis ; Trotter, A., Nuove 

 richerche sui micromiceti delle galle e sulla natura dei loro rap- 

 porti ecologici ; Hoehnel, Franz v., Mycologiche Fragmente ; Neue 

 Literatur. 



Salmon, Ernest S. 



An interesting paper "On the variation shown by the conidial 

 stage of Phylloctinia corylea (Pers.) Karst. I," is published 

 by this author in Annales Mycologici, December 1905, illustrated 

 by 3 full-page plates. The statement is made that P. corylea 

 shows in its conidial stage marked and constant morphological 

 differences confined to certain hosts. Using characters shown 

 by the conidiophore, two morphological varieties, var. rigida and 

 var. suhspiralis, can be distinguished ; a third variety, var. angu- 

 lata, can be based on the shape of the conidium. The examin- 

 ation of a large number of host-plants has shown further that 

 there are other more or less important morphological variations, 

 some of which will probably also require to be separated from 

 the type. 



Bulletin de la Societe Mycologique de France, tome 33, 36. 

 Fasc, 15 Sept. 1906. 



The sommaire for this No. is as follow^s : — N. Patouillard. — 

 Champignons Algero-Tunisiens nouveaux ou peu connus ; P. 

 Hariot et N. Patouillard. — Note sur le genre Colletomanginia; 

 G. Bainier — Mycotheque de I'Ecole de pharmacie, V. VI, VII, 

 VIII ; F. Gueguen. — Emploi du Sudan III comme colorant my- 

 cologique, seul ou combine au bleu coton et a I'iode ; M. Boue. — 

 Empoisonnement par V Amanita junquillca; Demange. — Empois- 

 onnement mortel par des Hygrophores ; Bihliographie analytique. 



