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SACCARDO SYLLOGE FUNGORUM. 
The ninth volume of this work has been issued, and contains the 
first portion of an Universal Supplement, from Agaricacese to 
Laboulbeniacese ; and the tenth volume containing the remaining 
portion is promised in 1892. This latter part is also to include a 
Bibliography, a repertorium of species according to their hosts, an 
alphabetical Index of species, and an alphabetical Index to the 
families, genera, and sub-genera in the entire work. 
The present volume of 1,140 pages gives the diagnoses of about 
4,500 additional species of Hymenomycetes, of Gasteromycetes, of 
Hypodermeas, of Phycomycetes, and of Pyrenomycetes, including 
the new species published during the progress of the work, and 
supplying many of the omissions in the previous volumes. The 
task has been a herculean one, and perfection was hardly possible, 
where such an immense mass of scattered literature had to be con- 
sulted ; but this supplement will do much towards rendering the 
work complete. Of course the volumes will be indispensable to 
every public library, as well as every private library of scientific 
pretensions, and although costly, will supply the place of an im- 
mense bulk of periodical publications, and, in the end, prove a 
saving of money, as well as of space, to the specialist, both of which 
advantages are not to be despised. 
MEMORABILIA. 
Geaster hygrometricus. — Mr. Percy Grimshaw has found 
three or four old specimens of this Geaster in Yorkshire. 
Cordyceps Sherringii, Massee. — By error this species was 
called Speeringii in “ Grevillea,” p. 15, whereas it should have been 
as above. 
Hypocrella Tuberiformis ( B . £ R.), Cooke. — The species 
called Hypocrea tuberiformis, B. & Rav., see Sacc. Syll. ii., 4902, 
was assumed by Patouillard to be identical with his Dussiella 
tuberiformis (B. and R.), Pat., see Sacc. Syll. ix., 4021, but this is 
called in question by G. F. Atkinson, in “ Botanical Gazette,” 
October, 1891, where he states that they are not identical, and 
that Hypocrea tuberiformis , B. & Rav., should be called Hypocrella 
tuberiformis , as stated by ourselves, years ago, in “ Grevillea,” Vol. 
xii., p. 105, No. 161. 
Index to Cooke’s Illustrations. — A few copies are left of a 
special Index to the plates in this work, in alphabetical order, 
giving the MS. numbers to the plates, according to the systematic 
arrangement adopted in the several Indices to the volumes, thus 
enabling any plate to be found at once, when bound in systematic 
order. The price is one shilling each, direct. 
Agaricus (PanjEolus) fimiputris. — We have just discovered 
that in “ Illustrations of British Fungi ” the names on two of the 
plates have been transposed by misadventure. 
