NEW LITEM ATURE. 



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NEW LITERATURE. 



BY W. A. KELLER JI AN. 



Farlow, W. G.— 'Xotes on Fungi," in the Botanical Gazette, Feb. 1885. 



Referring to Proc. Amer. xVcad. XVIII, 76, where it was stated that 

 Uredo Toxicodendri, B. & Rav. is the teleutosporic form with which PUe- 

 olaria brevipes, B. & Rav. is to be associated as the uredo form, i)r. Far- 

 low states that during the past summer he obtained the germination of 

 the spores of the so-called Uredo Toxicodendri, and found that their ger- 

 mination is that of a uredo and not of a teleutospore. Repeated attempts 

 failed to make tlie so-called Pileolaria brevipes germinate. * * * 

 Feronospora aiistmlis, described by Spegazzmi in 1881, seem to be identical 

 with P. fiicyicola, Trelease, hence the former name has the priority, 

 unless the species proves to be identical with P. Cubensis, B.& C. P. 

 Halstedii, Farlow, seems to be our most widely distributed species, 

 reaching ''its most luxuriant development on species of Silphium and 

 Helianthus in the Western States." * * Entyloma Besseyi, Farlow 

 is, according to Dr. Winter, U. Physalidis, Cke. & Kalch. 

 Faklow, W. G.— "The Synchytria of the United States," in the Botan- 

 ical Gazette, March, 1885. 



A full account, covering three and one-half pages, is given of the 

 genus Synchytrium followed by the diognosis as follows : 



SYisrcHYTRiU3i, D. By. & Wor.— Unicellular fungi inhabiting the 

 epidermal cells of living plants, entirely destitute of mycelium. Repro- 

 duction by resting spores and sori containing zoosporangia from which 

 are produced zoospores having one, or rarely two, cilia. Conjugation 

 wanting. 



The species of the United States are as follows : 



1. S. papillatum, Farlow, on Erodiumcicutarium,L. Her. , California. 



2. S. Holwayi, Farlow, on Monarda, Iowa. 



3. S. fulgens, Schroeter, on QEnothera biennis, L., California. 



4. S. innominatum, Farlow, on Malacothrix, California. 



5. S. decipiens, Farlow, on Amphicarpsea monoica, Nutt., Mass. to 



Minn. South to Md. 



6. S. Anemones, Wor., on Anemone nemorosa, L., Mass. to Wis. 



7. S. anomalum, Schroeter, on Adoxa Moschatellina, L , Iowa. 



8. S. aureum. Schroeter, on Lysimachia quadrifolia, L., Iowa. 



9. S. Myosotidis, Kuehn, var. Fotentillse, Schroeter, on Potentilla 



Canadensis, L., Mass. 



10. S. pluriannulatum (Curtis in herbarium), on Sanicula Marylan- 



dica and S. Menziesii, Hook. & Arn., Ala. to 111., Cal. 



Peck, Chas. H.— "Report of the Botanist" in the 35th xlnnual Report, 

 Y. State Mus. of JSTat. Hist. 



