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Conids of Hydnum.* — M. N. Patouillard records the occurrence in 
Hydnum Erinaceus (as previously observed in H. coralloides) of two kinds 
of conid — microconids on the hymenium, among the basids, seated on 
hasid-like conidiophores ; and megaconids on the trama, between the 
spines of the hymenium. 
Development of the Hypogsei.f — Dr. R. Hesse publishes a mono- 
graph of the Tuberacem and Elaphomycetes of Germany, in which a 
number of new genera and species are described. 
The author does not lay the same stress as he has previously done on 
the part played by the “ s warmers ” in the life-history of the Hypogaei ; 
but describes a very complicated process of impregnation in the conjuga- 
tion of “ archicarps ” and “ antherids,” and also a possible conjugation of 
microspores. 
The Tuberaceae are divided into two groups. In the first the glebe 
is either chambered or solid, the sterile portion developing in the form 
of external asci, or of broader or narrower plates of tissue springing 
from the peridium, or of a pseudo-parenchvme with asci solitary or 
collected in clusters. In the second group the glebe is never chambered, 
and is composed of a single or of many hymenial plates. The Elapho- 
mycetes are also divided into two groups, the peridium having a soft 
and spongy consistence in the one, with a smooth outer cortex ; while in 
the other the peridium is tough or woody, and the outer cortex warty 
or spiny. 
Canceromyces.t — Dr. Van Niessen makes a preliminary communi- 
cation on a case of carcinoma uteri in which was found a greenish-black 
fungus standing between the Blasto- and Hyphomvcetes, and presenting 
appearances having extraordinary resemblance to the nests in epithe- 
lioma. The author seems to think that there must be some genetic 
connection between this fungus and the cancer, and denominates it 
Cancer omyces. 
Rabenhorst’s Cryptogamic Flora of Germany (Fungi). — The 
most recently published parts (42-44) of Dr. Rehm’s Monograph of 
the German fungi are still entirely occupied by the Pezizaceae. The 
following genera of Eupezizeae are treated of : — Pity a (2 sp.), Barlsea 
(12 sp.), Humaria (54 sp.), Pyronema (10 sp.), Aleuria (3 sp.), Geopyxis 
(11 sp .), Piscina (5 sp.), Acetabula (5 sp.), Macropodia (5 sp Plicariella 
(6 sp.), Melacliroia (2 sp.), Urnula (1 sp.), Plicaria (34 sp.), Tarzetta 
(1 sp.), Otidea (7 sp.), Spliserospora (3 sp.), Pseudoplectania (3 sp.), 
Desmazierella (2 sp.), Lachnea (48 sp.), Sarcoscypha (7 sp.), Sepultaria 
(4 sp.). The Ascoboleae are commenced with Ascoplianus (18 sp.), 
Lasiobolus (3 sp.), and Phyparobius , of which 9 species are described. 
The woodcuts representing the generic characters are of the usual 
excellence ; some new species are described. 
* Bull. Soc. Mycol. France, 1894, p. 158. See Bot. Centralbl., lxi. (1895) p. 262. 
f ‘ Die Hypogseen Deutschlands,’ Bd. ii., Halle, 1894, 140 pp. aud 11 pis. See 
Bot. Ztg., liii. (1895) 2 ,e Abtheil., p. 33. Cf. this Journal, 1891, p. 230. 
X Centralbl. f. Med. Wissensch., May 1894. See Centralbl. f. Bakteriol. u. 
Parasitenk., xvi. (1894) p. 137. 
