NEW BRITISH FUNGI. 
Ill 
Sphaerella hiexacii, Cke. fy Mass. 
Perithecia scattered over the upper surface of faded leaves, 
punctiform, subconical, immersed at the base. Asci clavate. 
Sporidia uniseriate, or rarely in part biseriate, elliptically lanceo- 
late, obtuse at the ends, uniseptate, at first with a nucleus in each 
cell, hyaline, not constricted (20 x 4 j^)- 
On dying leaves of Hieracium pilosella. Tunbridge Wells. (E. 
G. Baker.) 
TWO FUNGI FROM GABOON. 
C oniothyiium aroideum, C. Sf Mass. 
Amphigenum. Peritheciis sparsis, minutis, punctiformibus, 
prominulis, atris. Sporulis ovalibus, fuscis (4 x 3 /x). 
On leaves of Culcasia scandens. Gaboon, W. Africa. (E. 
Simmonds.) 
Asteromella gabonensis, C. $ Mass. 
Epiphylla. Maculis fumosis, orbicularibus vel confluentibus. 
Peritheciis gregariis, minutis, atris, haemisph sericis, membranaceis. 
Sporulis ovalibus, continuis, hyalinis (6x4 /i). 
On fading herbaceous leaves. Gaboon, W. Africa. 
THE HYMENOMYCETES OF EUROPE.* 
This thin volume by M. Patouillard may be supposed to 
represent a kind of introduction to his “ Tabulae Analyticae 
Fungorum,” and, as such, will doubtless prove acceptable to those 
who require general elementary information ; otherwise, as an 
independent work, it possesses little value. Sixty-seven pages of 
large type cannot be supposed to exhaust the anatomy of the 
Hymenomycetes, and we do not recognize any effort to do so, 
since we fail to discover anything new, either in matter or manner, 
to give any character to what is simply a resume of what is pretty 
generally known. This is followed by about as much more letter- 
press devoted to classification, in which we detect more novelty, 
without any increase of satisfaction. Nowadays a book on 
Fungi is supposed, of necessity, to contain a batch of new genera, 
brought into the world prematurely, and doomed to premature 
death, like rickety children, while scarce a tear will be shed over 
their remains. When this mania for new genera subsides a very 
small percentage of the creations will perhaps survive; the rest 
will serve to entertain and employ future mycologists in the 
* “ Les Hymenomycetes d’Europe. Anatomie generate et classification 
des Champignons snperieurs,” par N. Patouillard. 8o., pp. 162, plates 4. 
Paris (Klincksieck), 1887. 
