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NEW OR CRITICAL BRITISH FUNGI. 
the conidiophores, shortly cylindrical, ends truncate (barrel-shaped), 
vinous-brown, 10-12-8 /x. 
On damp, gummed paper. Commencing as pure white, waxy- 
looking patches ; the conidia are fully formed and full sized before 
they become tinged with colour. 
PI. 182, fig. 7, portion of the fungus, x 400 ; Fig. 10, conidia. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
Handbook of Australian Fungi (M. C. Cooke). — The present 
volume — published under the authority of the several Governments 
of the Australian Colonies — contains a general introduction to the 
study of fungi, and descriptions of all species known to occur in 
Australia and Tasmania, numbering 2,084. As the greater part 
of the material forming the basis of this work has passed through 
Dr. Cooke’s hands, the outcome is something more than a mere 
compilation, which must of necessity have been the case had the 
book been written by any other person ; and in addition to being 
indispensable to every Australian mycologist, claims the attention 
of all systematists, inasmuch as it contains descriptions and figures 
of many new genera and species. There are 36 plates of figures 
and dissections, 20 of which are coloured. 
Sylloge Fungorum (P. A. Saccardo, Supplementum Universale, 
Part 2). 
North American Pyrenomycetes (J. B. Ellis and B. M. Everhart, 
1 Vol., with plates). — This work will be noticed in the next number 
of “ Grevillea.” 
Ascigerous Stage of Endoconidium temulentum, Prill, and Delacr. 
— MM. Prillieux and Delacroix (Bull. Soc. Myc. de France, tom. 
viii., p. 22, 1892) describe the ascigerous condition of the above- 
named mould, which proves to be a species of Pliial ea ; Endoco- 
nidium temulentum, a hyphomycetous fungus, characterized by the 
hyaline spores being produced in short chains within the branches 
and near their tips, was discovered by the above-named authors, 
parasitic on grains of rye, to which it imparted poisonous proper- 
ties. The following is the description of the ascigerous form : — 
Phialea temulenta, Prill, fy Delacr. 
Solitary or gregarious on a single grain. Cup plane or slightly 
undulato-convex, thin, at first partly closed, pallid, from ocbra- 
ceous to honey-colour, 5-7 m.m. diameter; stem rather paler, 
equal, dilated upwards into the cup, 7-10 m.m. long, d-1 m.m. 
thick; asci cylindrical, 130. x 5 /x, sporiferous part 65 yu, at length 
operculate, not becoming blue with iodine ; spores hyaline, obliquely 
uniseriate, ovate-fusoid, 10 x 4-5 fi , paraphyses simple, con- 
tinuous, the slightly incrassated tips tawny (1*5-2 /x). 
On fruits of Secale cereale, following Endoconidium temulentum 
Prill. £ Delacr., of which it is the ascigerous stage. 
