Oct. 1903] Notes from Mycological Literature 
205 
(6:2387-8, 1903). To represent the Higher Fungi [continued] 
and Lichens he uses Bovista plumbea, Parmelia caperata, Sticta 
amplissima and Endocarpon miniatum. 
The Genus Fomes is the 3d installment of the Polypora- 
ceae of North America, by William Alphonso Murrill, Bulletin 
of the Torrey Botanical Club, 30:225-232, April 1903. Fomes, 
usually credited to Fries, was used by him for a subdivision of 
the genus Polyporus. Gillet (1878) raised Fomes to generic 
rank. The author gives a “synopsis” (dichotomal key) to the 12 
species — two of which are new species, and three others receive 
new names. Full synonomy and distribution, also notes are given 
for each of the species. 
Oogenesis in Saprolegnia by Bradley Moore Davis, 
Contributions from the Hull Botanical Laboratory, XLVI, Bo¬ 
tanical Gazette, 35 ^33-249, 320-349, plates IX and X, April and 
May 1903, is concerned chiefly with the events of oogenesis and 
a comparison of this process with the development of zoospores. 
The paper concludes with Theoretical Considerations, which deals 
with a number of topics suggested by the study in relation to 
recent investigations upon Phycomycetes and Ascomycetes, fol¬ 
lowed by an alphabetical list of the authors of the literature cited. 
A Study of tpie Food Value of Some of the Edible Fungi 
of Ames, Iowa, by J. B. Weems and Alice W. Hess, is given in 
the Proc. 23d An. Meeting Soc. Prom. Agr. Sci. 1902. (pp. 165- 
172.) During the summer of 1901 the authors collected and ana¬ 
lyzed Coprinus atramentarius, C. micaceus, Hirneola auricula- 
judas, Hydnum coralloides, Morchella esculenta, Lycoperdon gi- 
ganteum, L. gemmatum, Pleurotus sapidus, and P. ulmarius. 
Tables are compiled also by the analysts. This statement is made: 
Though the full value of the mushroom is materially lowered 
when the deduction is made for the non-digestable protein, and 
lowered more than the full value of the vegetables when the un- 
digestable fat and carbohydrates as well as the protein is deducted, 
yet the mushroom would fall within the rank of the fresh veg¬ 
etables if the whole of the carbohydrates and fats were digestable. 
PIollis Webster gives an interesting Description of the 
peculiar Clitocybe trullisata Ellis (Boston Mycological Club, Bul¬ 
letin No. 20, June 1903) which may be found in “any old sandy 
field” in Eastern Massachusetts, for example about Plymouth, 
on Cape Cod, the dunes of Ipswich or the farther inland sandy 
plains. The fungus looks as if it hadn’t much of a stem. There 
is a stem, long and surprisingly stout and swollen, but it is out 
of sight, deeply buried in the sand. This stem is of a metallic vio¬ 
let color when the sand is rubbed off; the interior of the broken 
stem shows same color. A dark violaceous tint appears in the 
