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JOURNAL OF MYCOLOGY. 



[Vol. ], 



Kellermania yuccegena, E. & E— On dead or withered leaves 

 of Yucca augustifoUa, Manhattan, Kansas, June, 1885. Ferilhecia mem- 

 branaceous, about .2 min. in diameter, globose, buried in the substance 

 of the leaf and only visible outwardly as small, dusky circles with a 

 blacli spot in the "center, caused by the minute, papilliform ostiolum 

 barely visible throu^'h th'^ slightly ruptured epidermis. Spores cylin- 

 drical, gLMuular, 45—50 x 10—12 abrui,)tly contracted below into a slen- 

 der, stipe-like base, 18—25 long. The granular contents are divided by 

 a septum across the middle with indications of becoming faintly multi- 

 septate. The outward appear nee is the same as that of tiphcei'ia nigro- 

 annulcUa, B. & C. The specimens in X. A. F. 1368. are this species" in 

 some copies. 



If the cylindrical spores can be considered as asci, the species will be 

 referable to J'lilella, Sacc, but they seem to be really stylospores. 



NEW LITERATURE. 



BY W. A. KELLERMAN, 



''Rabenhorst- Winter, Fungi ETJROP.EI," 32d Cent. 



This splendid collection of fungi, indispensible to the American 

 Mycologist, contains in the thirty- second Century 47 specimens that 

 were collected in this country. In connection with seven of the species 

 which are new to the literature of science. Dr. Winter has given also 

 descriptions. They are as follows : Puccinia Macowani, Winter, I and 

 III, in foliis vivis Helichysi peuolati, England; ^Ecidium splendens. Win- 

 ter, in cotyledonibus vivis Crotonis mononthagyni, Missouri; Feziza Ulei, 

 Winter, ad folia viva Gleichonia^ dichotomie, Brazil; Farodiella csespitosa, 

 Winter, ad folia viva composit?e scandentis adhuc indeterminata, Brazil ; 

 Diplodia maculicola, VV^inter, ad folia viva Lguminosse adhuc indetermin- 

 atse, Brazil; and Sphserella convexula (Schw.)— whose asci and spores 

 were hitherto undescribed — ad folia arida Caryie amarse, Ohio. 

 '•Kryttogamen Flora von Deutchland, CEsterreich itnd der 



Sghweiz. Pilze yon Dr. G. Winter. 20. Lteferung.'' 



This Leiferung of the II part. Vol. I, contains pp. 385-448, including 

 a portion of the Fyrenomycetes (SphseriaceEe). This carefully edited 

 work of Dr. Winter's is doubtless too well known to American botanists 

 to need a full account here. 

 Champignons Coprophiles de la Belquique. Far Elie Marchal, 



1884-5." Fp. 45, 4 plates. 

 Algologiska och mykologiska anteckningar FRAN en botanisk 



RESA I LuLEA Lappmaok. . , f G . Lageaheim. " Konigl. Vetens- 



kaps Foerhandlingar, 1884. 

 '•My^vOLOGiska bidreg. Af G. Lagerheim.'" Separataftrj^ck nr 



Botanska j^otiser, 1884. 

 ■'Fungi Moricol^e. Iconographia e Descrizione dei Funghi par- 



assiti del Gelso dt Augusto jSTapoleone Berlese. Fascicolo 



I, II." 



This small book cannot be too highly commended as to the execution 

 of the numerous colored lithographic plates. The figures were drawn 

 from nature by Sign. Berlese. They are accompanied with Latin 

 descriptions of the species, and observations printed in the Italian lan- 

 guage. 



