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fungi. The record for Great Britain has been much extended by these 
papers, and doubtful points have been cleared up by Grove’s helpful 
notes. A. L. S. 
New or Rare Fungi from Various Localities. — 0. E. Fairman 
( Proc . Rochester Acad. Sci ., 1922, 6, 117-39). The paper is a con- 
tinuation of the author’s studies on fungi carried out in the laboratory 
and the field for many years. It contains an account of 50 species, 
mostly collected in Western New York, many of them new to science, 
with one new genus, Amblyosporiopsis, a Hyphomycete. The last two 
records are of fungi causing diseases of cultivated plants : Phoma 
Dioscoreae on stem of Dioscorea Batatas , and Discosea maculicola on 
leaves of garden Impatiens. A. L. S. 
Novitas Bryologica. II. — Gyorffy (The Bryologist , 1922, 25, 
18, 1 fig.). A. translation is given of Gyorffy’s account of the presence 
of Gladosporium herbarium in the capsules of Campylopus introflexus 
from Tasmania. Gyorffy has found the fungus in the capsules of six 
other moss species. A. L. S. 
New Japanese Fungi. XI.— Tyozaburo Tanaka ( Mycologia , 
1922, 14, 81-9). The species described are microfungi belonging to 
various classes of fungi, Hyphomycetes, Ascomycetes, Phycomycetes and 
Ustilagineae. They are all parasitic on leaves or stalks, and are new to 
science. Some of them are of considerable economic importance. 
A. L. S. 
Reliquiae Farlowianee. — Roland Thaxter ( Mycologia , 1922, 14, 
99-103). An account is given by the author of the fungi, etc., included 
in these Reliquiae. They are assorted and made into sets to be dis- 
tributed to selected institutions and herbaria. Thaxter publishes notes 
on the specimens when desirable or necessary. A. L. S. 
Note on the Occurrence of the Finger and Toe Disease of 
Turnips in Relation to the Hydrogen Ion Concentration of the 
Soil. — W. R. G. Atkins (Sci. Proc. Royal Dublin Society , 1922, 16, 
427-8). The note follows on a long paper concerned with the acidity 
or “ Hydrogen Ion Concentration of Plant Cells.” The writer tested 
the soil of two fields, in one of which the crop of turnips was badly 
infested with finger and toe, while the other, close at hand, was free 
from disease. In the former field the soil contained 0*17 p.c. of 
calcium, in the latter 0 * 40 p.c. He thus proved the direct benefit of 
lime as a remedy for the disease. A. L. S. 
Bionomics of the Conidia of Phytophthora infestans. — Paul A. 
Murphy (Sci. Proc. Royal Dublin Society , 1922, 16, 442-66). It had 
been observed that tubers contaminated by soil or by diseased foliage 
suffered serious rot in storage. The present paper deals with the 
viability of the spores of Phytophthora infestans under different conditions 
of soil, moisture, temperature, presence or absence of oxygen, etc. It 
is reckoned that the conidia, mingled with soil and kept out of doors, 
may remain viable and capable of infecting potato tubers for a period 
between three and four weeks. The other factors affecting viability 
are discussed and results of experiments are given. A. L. S. 
