ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY, MICROSCOPY, ETC. 481 



Mau blanc, A.— Quelques Champignons de Test Africain. (Some fungi from East 



Africa. Tom. tit., pp. 71-6 (3 figs.). 



Oertel, G— Eine neue Rhabdospora-Art. (A new species, Bhabdospora Saccar- 



diana.) Ann. Mycol, iv. (1906) p. 35 (1 fig.). 



Patouillard, N.— Champignons recueillis par M. Seurat dans la Polynesie 

 francaise. (Fungi collected by M. Seurat in French Polynesia.) 

 [There is one new genus, Mapped (Basidiomycetes).] 



Bull. Soc. Mycol. France, xxii. (1906) pp. 45-62 (2 pis.). 



Peck, C. H. — New Species of Fungi. 



[The larger and smaller fungi are both represented in the list.] 



Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, xxxiii. (1906) pp. 213-21. 



Petch, I.— Descriptions of New Ceylon Fungi. 



[The fungi are all parasitic, and cause more or less damage to their hosts.] 

 Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Pcradeniya, iii. (1906) pp. 1-10. 



Poibault, J. — Liste des Champignons superieurs de la Haute-Vienne (Suite). 

 [List of fungi from Haute-Vienne.] 



Bull. Acad. Geogr. Bot., 1905, Nos. 185-6, pp. 73-7. 

 See also Bot. Centralbl., ci. (1906) p. 672. 

 Pringsheim, Hans H.— Ueber die sogenannte "Bios-Frage" und die Gewbh- 

 nung der Hefe an gezuckerte Mineralsalznahrlbsungen. (The so-called " Bios- 

 Question," and the accustoming of yeast to a mineral solution.) 



Centralbl. Bakt., xvi. (1906) pp. 111-19. 

 Rehm — Ascomycetes exs. Fasc. 36. 



[Nos. 1626 to 1650 are listed ; a number of them are new to science.] 



Ann. Mycol., iv. (1906) pp. 64-71. 



Rostrup, E.— Norges Hymenomycetes. Efter Forfatterens Dod geunemset og 

 affsluttet af Axel Blytt. (Norwegian Hymenomycetes collected and named by 

 Axel Blytt, and published by Rostrup after Blytt's death.) 



Videns-Selsk. Skrift. 1 Math-Naturiv. Kl., 1904, No. 6 



(Christiana, 1905) pp. 1-164. See also 



Ann. Mycol, iv. (1906) p. 93. 



Saccardo, P. A. — Mycetes aliquot congoenses novi. (Some new fungi from the 



Congo.) 



[A list of known species is given, and descriptions of new forms. There are 

 ten new species or varieties of Xylaria.'] 



Ann. Mycol., iv. (1906) pp. 72-7 (1 pi.). 



Starbak, Karl — Ascomyceten der Schwedischen Chaco-Cordilleren Expedition. 



[The new genera recorded are Robertomyces and Hypoxylina. Many new 

 species are described.] Arkiv Bot., v. (1905) No. 7, pp. 1-35 (1 pi.). 



Sydow, H. & P.— Neue und kritscheUredineen. IV. (New and critical Uredinese.) 

 [Species of Uromyces, Puccinia, and Uredo are described.] 



Ann. Mycol., iv. (1906) pp. 28-32. 



Lichens. 



(By. A. Lorrain Smith.) 



Subterranean Lichens.* — Among the forms of vegetation described 

 by Jacques Maheu as occurring in caverns, there are a fair number of 

 lichens. Tbey are confined, however, almost exclusively to the entrance ; 

 they do not penetrate into the depths of tbe caverns, less, Maheu thinks, 

 on account of the darkness than because of the great humidity. Some 

 live in semi-obscurity, but they are very deformed ; a few crustaceous forms 

 grow right in the caverns. The substratum seems to be one of the most 

 important factors in the case : while there were but few in the lime 



* Ann. Sci. Nat., ser. 9, iii. (1906) pp. 98-101. 



