1881.] Progress of Botany in the United States in 1880. 949 
macrosora, Aicidium Y¥amesianuim, Sorosporium atrum ona Carex, 
from Pennsylvania and Colorado, Cheiromyces tinctus, Pesiza 
spongiosa, Phacidium sparsum, Stictis fulva, Diatrype angulare, 
Spheria altipeta, Spheria lichenols. 
Twenty-nine new species of fungi, collected in California by 
Dr. Harkness, were described by M. C. Cooke in the September 
number of Grevillea. The descriptions are mere Latin diagnoses, 
and are by no means satisfactory. The species described are 
Phoma hosackiea, Chetophoma atriella, Vermicularia subglabra, 
Septoria helianthicola, Discella olivacea, D. tenuispora, Diplodia 
microscopica, D. rhuina, Hendersonia galiorum, Dichomera phacelia, 
D. compositarum, Gleosporium leguminis, Torula glutinosa, Coleo- 
Sporium baccharidis, Macrosporum culmorum, Trichaégum atrum 
Preuss., 7: opacum, Fusarium gallinaceum, Leotia ochroleuca, Stic- 
lis decipiens Karst., S. radiala, var. pumila, S. annulata C. and 
Phil., Ascomyces fulgens, Spheria labiatarum, S. epiptertdis, Sphe- 
rella brachytheca, S. aralie, S. dendromeconis, S. acacie, All, with 
three exceptions indicated above, are described as by Cooke 
and Harkness, who are therefore to be quoted as the joint authors 
of the specific names. 
M. C. Cooke enumerated thirty-one species of “ New York 
Fungi,” of which seven were new, in the March number of Gre- 
villea, The new species which are described are the following: 
Coniothyrium rubellum, Diplodia celastri, D. compressa, Massaria 
Gerardi, Psilospheria melasperma, Conispheria peniophora, Sphe- 
rella ilicella. Ss 
Two new species of Septoria were described by Baron F, De 
-Theumen in the October Botanical Gazette, one (5. Albaniensis) 
on Salix from New York, and the other (S. Querceti) on Quer- 
cus from South Carolina. a 
An interesting addition to the Phalloidei was made in an arti- 
cle on “A New Fungus,” by W. R. Gerard, in the January Bul- 
letin of the Ti orrey Botanical Clud. The new species, Simblum 
rubescens, was discovered on Long Island. A full and satisfac-_ 
tory description is given, and two good plates are added. Ap- 
pended to the paper is a valuable “List of United States Phal-_ 
loidei,” including all “ which have been detected in the United — : 
States up to the present time.” 
The “ Catalogue of Pacific Coast Fungi,” by Dr. Harkness and a 
J. P. Moore, first read before the California Academy of Sciences, 
