News, Notes and Reviews 
267 
In the last number of the Annals of the Missouri Botanical 
Garden, E. A. Burt presents his first paper on “ The Thelephora- 
ceae of North America,” which, we trust, will be rapidly followed 
by other much needed contributions to the knowledge of this 
important and difficult family. It will be a surprise to some, per- 
haps, to find Exobasidium among the twenty genera of the Euthe- 
lephoreae recognized by the author. The twenty-three known 
North American species of Thelephora are discussed in full, with 
synonyms, descriptions, and a list of specimens examined. Thele- 
phora scissilis from the state of Washington, T. magnispora from 
Jamaica, and T. perplexa from Cuba are described as new. 
An important collection of fungi from Texas, consisting of ioo 
numbers, collected by Dr. Fredrick McAllister assisted by stu- 
dents of the botanical department of the University of Texas, was 
recently sent in for determination by Professor I. M. Lewis, head 
of the department. Several of the more perishable species were 
accompanied by good field notes. Duplicates of nearly half of 
the collection were reserved for the Garden herbarium. These 
include Inonotus texanus, I. juniperinus, Pyropolyporus texanus, 
Simblum sphaerocephalum, Calvatia craniiformis, Mycenastrum 
corium, Phcllorina calif ornica, Gyropliragmium texense, and sev- 
eral species of Tylostoma. 
A splendid collection of gill-fungi and polypores, containing 
nearly one hundred specimens accompanied by excellent field 
notes, was recently sent to the Garden for determination by Pro- 
fessor W. A. Setchell, of the University of California, who was as- 
sisted by the students and instructors of the department of botany 
in the collection and preparation of this material. This collection 
forms an important addition to the Garden herbarium and adds a 
number of new species to the list of known California fungi. A 
few of the specimens will probably prove new to science when the 
collection is more fully studied. Attention is called to the fol- 
lowing species: Agaricus calif ornicus, Agaricus crocodilinus , 
Agaricus placomyces, Agaricus silvicola, Clitocybe oreades, Crepi- 
dotus calolepis, Crytoporus volvatus, Gomphidius oregonensis, 
