THE FERN'S PLACE IN NATURE. S7 



Brefeld (O.)- Untersuchungen aus dern Gesammtgebiete 

 der Mykologie. Hcfte vii, viil, ix, x (1888-1891). The most 

 elaborate morpholo(<ical work on the subject. 



For the systematic study of the Fungi no single work is avail- 

 able for American students. The scattered literature is very 

 abundant, and the more available portions are classified below. 

 Among the European manuals the following is the most ex- 

 tensive and useful : 



Winter (G.) eia/. Die Pilze, in Rabenhorst : Kryptogamen- 

 flora von Detitschland, Oesterreich imd der Schweiz, Three 

 volumes are completed and the fourth is nearly so. 



Myxomycetes. 



McBride (T. H.). The Myxomycetes of eastern Iowa. 

 Btill. Lab. Nat. Hist. State Univ., 11, 99-162 (1892). 



Cooke (M. C). Myxomycetes of Great Britain. (1877.) 



The Myxomycetes of the United States. Annals N. Y. 



Lyceum Nat. Hist., xi, 378-409 (1877). An incomplete but 

 serviceable list. 



Berlese (A. N.). Myxomyceteae, in Saccardo : Sylloge 

 Fungoriim, vil, 323-450; x, 83-99. 



Massee (Geo.). A Monograph of the Myxogastres. (1892.) 

 To be u^ed with caution ; cf. criticisms in Bulletin Torrey Bot. 

 Club, XX, 73-82 (1893). 



Schizomycetes. 



Grove (W. B.). A Synopsis of the Bacteria and Yeast 

 Fungi. i2mo. (1884.) 



Saccardo (P. A.). Sylloge Fungorum, viii, 923-1087. 



Thaxter (Roland). On the Myxobacteriacea;. a new 

 order of Schizomycetes. Bot. Gazette, xvil, 389-406 (1892) ; 

 XVIII, 29, 30(1893). 



Phycomycetes. 



Fischer (A.). Phycomycetes, in Winter: Die Pilze 

 Deutschlands, Oesterreicks und de?- Schweiz (1892). 



Farlow (W. G.). Enumeration of the Peronosporeae oi 

 the United States. Bot. Gazette, vili, 305-315, 327 337 (1883) ; 

 Additions, ix, 37-40 (1884). 



