AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 
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Strumella patelloidea, Cke. Sf Mass. 
Stroma orbicular, patelloid, scattered, superficial, black (1-1J 
m.m. diam.), conidia subglobose or ovate, continuous, dark olive 
(7-8 fx diam.), on short sporophores. 
On naked wood. Tasmania. ( Martin , 789.) 
Similar in fruit to S. hysterioidea , but quite different in habit 
and appearance. 
BREFELD’S “ MYKOLOGIE.”* 
Mycological works, in German, have a most limited circulation 
in this country, and our Teuton friends are very much mistaken if 
they think that any amount of effort on their part will materially 
increase it. Some expressions of disappointment have reached us 
that German works, many of them excellent, meet with so limited 
a sale, and such small encouragement in Britain. It should not 
be forgotten that mycologists are very limited in number in these 
islands, and some of these are unable to purchase indiscriminately 
expensive works in any language, whilst the number capable of 
pernsing German with ease is considerably less. All those 
capable of reading and appreciating Dr. Bref eld’s works, for 
instance, could be counted on the fingers of one hand. Up to the 
present nine parts have been issued, and the combined cost is 
£9 7s., and a tenth part is announced at twenty-six shillings. 
Alas, the purchasers, at ten guineas, of German Mycological 
works, with analytical figures, however beautifully executed, would 
scarcely be flattering, if a census could be ascertained. 
We may add a brief summary of the general contents of the 
nine parts. 
Part I. contains Mucor mucedo, Chcetocladium Jonesii, and 
Piptocephalis Freseniana, with remarks on the Zygomycetes. 
Part II. is in illustration of Penicillium. 
Part III. contains the first part of the Basidiomycetes, with 
observations on Coprinus stercorarius , C. lag opus, C. ephemerus, 
C. ephemeroides, Amanita muscaria , Agaricus melleus, and 
generally on Gasteromycetes, Clavarim, and Tremellini. 
Part IV. Methods of culture. 
Part V. is devoted to the Ustilaginese. 
Part VI. includes Myxomycetes and the Entomophthorem. 
Part VII. The second portion of the Basidiomycetes, prin- 
cipally the Tremellini. 
Part VIII. The third portion of the Basidiomycetes. 
Part IX. on Exoascus, and the first part of the Ascomycetes. 
* “ Untersuchungen aus dem Gesammt gebeite der Mykologie.” Yon 
Dr. Oscar Brefeld. Heft. ix. Die Hemiasci und die Ascomyceten. 
Munster, 1891. 
