A.UG., 1887.] 
NEW LITERATURE. 
OBITUARY. 
Dr. Ezra Michener died at his residence in Toughkenamon, Chester 
Co., Pa., June 25,1887, in the 93d year of his age. He was born in London 
Grove township, in Chester Co., Nov. 24, 1794. In 1818 he received his 
medical diploma and began the practice of medicine in his native village. 
Some ten years later, he removed to Toughkenamon, where he ever after¬ 
wards continued to reside. For sixty years, he was the trusted family 
physician of many of the residents of his section ; but among scientilic 
men, he will be chiefly remembered on account of his mycological work 
in collecting and giving to science, through the publications of Berkeley 
& Curtis, many new and rare fungi from his locality. E. 
NEW LITERATURE. 
BY W. A. KELLER MAN. 
“ Revisio monographic a generis Geasteris Mich., e tribu 
Gasteromycetum.” Auctore Doct. G. B. DeToni (Suite et tin.) 
Revue Mycologuique, ler Juillet, 1887. 
“Tiie Growth of Tulostoma mammosum.” Chas. E. Bessey. Amer¬ 
ican Naturalist, July, 1887. 
“Fungi selecti exsiccati pr^ecipue Gallic et Algerije.” Cen- 
iurie XLIIe. C. Roumeguere. 
“Les Hymenomycetes D’Europe: Anotomie Generale et classif- 
cation des Champignons superieurs.” N. Patouillard. Paris. 
Librarie Paul Klincksieck, 1887. 
This valuable work, which is Vol. I of Materiaux pour L^Historie 
des Champignons, embraces general anatomy, pp. 1-69, classification, pp. 
70-166, and four plates, with numerous figures, illustrating the anatomy 
of the several species. 
“Sylloge Fungorum Omnium hucusque cognitorum,’’ digessit P. 
A. Saccardo, Padua, May 28, 1887. 
The 5th volume of this work is now issued. It is a thick royal octavo 
volume of 1,144 pages and is devoted to the Agaricini , of which 4,639 
species are enumerated with the original descriptions. The systematic 
arrangement is the same as that given by Fries in his Epicrisis, except 
that the subgenera Amanita, Tricholoma, Lepiota , etc., are given generic 
rank. 
The rest of the Hymenomycetes will be included in Vol. VI 
(which will be about half the size of Vol. V) and is expected to be ready 
early in 1888 and will contain an index of all the species of Hymenomy¬ 
cetes, Vol. V having only an index of the genera. 
Vol. VII, on which the work is already nearly finished, is expected to 
appear at the end of the current year and will contain the Phalioids, Nid- 
ulanacece., Lycoperdons, Hymenogasters, Mucorini, Peronosporece, Sapro- 
legneae,, Entnmophtkorene, Chytridiacece , Protomycetece and Myxomycetes. 
The VIII and last volume, containing the Discomy'cetes, Tuberaceae, 
Elaphomyceteae, Saccharomyceteae, Estilagineae and Uredineae is promised 
early in 1889. E. 
