•Jan., 1887.] 
OBITUARY—NEW LITERATURE. 
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OBITUARY. 
British mycology has suffered another severe loss by the death of 
Christopher Edmund Broome, M. A., of Batheaston, for many years 
associated with the Rev. M. J. Berkeley in the production of numerous 
contributions to the Linnean Society and the Annals of .Natural History. 
Although ten years the junior of the latter and apparently more active 
and vigorous, yet his friends have not failed to observe a gradual decline 
during the last twelve months, which has somewhat suddenly come to a 
fatal termination. His quiet, unassuming manners, his extreme modesty 
in all scientific matters and his universal kindness and geniality endeared 
him to all who knew him.— Grevillea. 
NEW LITERATURE. 
BTW. A. KELLERMAN. 
“British Fyrenomycetes ; A Preliminary" List of known Spe¬ 
cies.” By G. Massee. Grevillea, December, 1886. 
“New t British Fungi.” By M. C. Cooke. 1. c. 
“PlLECURSORES AD MONOGRAPIIIA POLY"PORORUM. ” ByM. C. Cooke. I.C. 
“Fungus Forays, 1886.” 1. c. 
“ Kryptogamen-flora von Deutschland. Oesterreich und der 
Schweiz, Pilze, von Dr. G. Winter, 26,Lieferung, IWrenomy- 
CETES (SPII^ERIACEuE). 
This Lieferung is occupied mostly with the families Diatrypece. with 
the genera Calosphoeria , Quaternaries , Scoptria , Diatrypella , Diatrype , and 
Xylariece , with the genera Nummularia , Hypoxylon , Ustulina , Poronia 
and Xylaria. Dr. Winter unites under the genus Calosphoeria the forms 
(without stroma) with eight to manv-spored asci, with or without beaked 
perithecia. Calosphceria possesses, besides the conidia-bearing myce¬ 
lium, also special conidia-stromata which resemble the perithecia. 
Diatrypella , having asci with many spores, and Diatrype , having asci with 
eight spores, are nevertheless w r ell distinguished by several other char¬ 
acters. In the large genus Hypoxylon are included forms that differ 
w idely, but they are all connected by intermediate species. “ Notwith¬ 
standing the difference outwardly, all the species show a decided corre¬ 
spondence in the structure of the ascus-layer, also, so far as known, 
in the structure connected with the conidia.” 
“The Dry-Rot Fungus; Meruliuslachrymans.” Worthington G. 
Smith, Gardeners' Chronicle , Dec. 13, 1886. 
“Ceber Alkoholg^eiirung und Schleimfluss lebender B.eume, 
verursacht durcii Endomyues Magnusii, n. sp. und Leucon- 
ostoc Lageriieimii, n. sp. Vorl^eufige Mittiieilung.” Yon 
Prof. Dr. F. Ludwig, Hedwigia , Bd. XXV, Heft. Y, 1886. 
“Revision der Hysterineen im herb. Duby.” ■ Von Dr. Rehm. 1. c. 
