1896.] Botany. 313 



Several instances were noted where the glaciers had advanced over 

 their terminal moraines by riding up over them, but none where the ice 

 showed any competency to push the frontal material, even its own 

 debris, before it. 



A driftless area was discovered on the east side of Bowdoin Bay im- 

 mediately adjoining the present great ice-cap. (Bull. Geol. Club, 

 Phila., 1895.) 



BOTANY. 1 



New Species of Fungi.— The activity of our fungologists is in- 

 dicated by the long lists before us which have been published within 

 the last few months. From the Proceedings of the Academy of Nat- 

 ural Sciences of Philadelphia (1895, pp. 413 to 441) we have " New 

 Species of Fungi from Various Localities," by J. B. Ellis and B. M. 

 Everhart, including ninety-nine species. Many of these are from Col- 

 orado and other western regions. We note among the more interest- 

 ing species the following, viz. : Fomes alboluteus, from an altitude of 

 10,000 feet, in Colorado ; Bovista cellulosa, Lycoperdon alpig 

 from Colorado, the latter from an altitude of 11,500 feet ; Rosellinia 

 geasteroides from Louisiana; Phyllachora plantaginis, parasitic on 

 ', in Wisconsin. 



The same authors publish in the October (1895) Bulletin of the Tor- 

 rey Botanical Club, a paper on " New Species of Fungi " in which 

 there are described eight new species from the Sandwich Islands, 

 eleven from Florida, and six from Mexico. It is with much pleasure 

 that we observe that but two of the specific names are dedicated to 

 persons, viz. : Schizophyl robably a synonym for S. 



commune) ant /// from Mexico. It is to be hoped 



that the good example here set may be followed by others upon whom 

 it falls to find names for new species. 



In the Fourth Report of the Botanical Survey of Nebraska, just is- 

 sued, fifty-five new species of fungi are described by Eoscoe Pound, F. 

 E. Clements and C. L. Shear. These are distributed as follows : in the 

 - . >- - 

 baceas, 1 (in the new genus Trickurus of Clements and Shear) ; Tuber- 

 ctdariacece, 2 ; Helvellacece, 2 , Pezizacece, 24 ; Bulgariacece, 1 ; Agari- 

 1 Edited by Prof. C. E. Besscy, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska. 



