dec. 1907] KUSANO.-PHOBO-CHFMOTAXIS OF MYXOMYCETES. 167 



Hori, S., Smut on cultivated large bamboo (Phylla- 



stachys). (The Bulletin of the Imperial Central Agricultural 



Experiment Station, Japan. Vol. I. No. 1. Dec. 1905, p. 73-89, 



with 4 plates). 



The author made a study of the smut fungi infecting 



Phyllostachys and other bamboos, and found that they are all 



identical, belonging to Ustilago Shiraiana P. Hennings. The 



fungus was first described by Hennings 1} in 1900, and as a 



result of the study the author proposes to make some changes 



in the original description as follows : 



Produced on the growing points and internodes of the 

 young branches, causing often deformation or distortion ; spore- 

 masses at first covered by the leef-sheath and bracts, pulverulent, 

 deep brown ; spores spherical, sometimes subglobose or ellipt- 

 ical, the rounded ones 6—10 ju. in diameter, and the elongated 

 ones 5.5—10=6—12 p. in size. Epispore light olivaceous, smooth; 

 contents finely granular with some oil globules ; promycelium 

 cylindrical or long fusiform, pedicellated, 1-2 septated, evanes- 

 cent ; sporidia terminal and lateral, long fusiform or elliptical, 

 develop into the new promycelium. 



K. Miyake. 



Hayata, B., On Taiwania, a new Genus of Coniferae 



from the Island of Formosa. (Journal of the Linnean 



Society, London, Botany, Yol. XXXVII. July 1906, p. 330- 



331 wit 1 plate). 



The new conifer was found on the western slope of Mt. 



Morrison, at an altitude of 2000 meters, in Formosa. The 



author gave the name Taiwania cryptomeroides and the 



diagnosis is for the first time published here. A fuller note was 



later published in this journal (Bot. Mag. Feb. 1907). 



K. Miyake. 



Fungi japonici I. Engler's Bot. Jahrb. Bd. 28. 1900, p. 260. 



