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Journal of Mycology 
[Vol. 11 
There is an excellent though brief review by H. Has- 
selbring in the December No. of the Botanical Gazette (1904), 
of Hollos’ imposing monograph of the Gasteromycetes of Hun¬ 
gary, German edition. We quote: “The complete descriptions, 
full of synonomy and citation, and the excellent illustrations are 
three features that will insure this book a position of authority 
among taxonomic works. Not only will it be of value to the 
students of the country for which it was written, but also to 
American students, for most of the gasteromycetes have a world¬ 
wide distribution. Of the forms described nearly all occur in 
this country and specimens of many of these were seen and cited 
by the author.” 
The Discomycetes of Eastern Iowa by Fred J. Seavers 
is a paper of 67 pages and 25 plates issued in Nov. 1904, in the 
Bulletin of Laboratories of Natural History of the State of Iowa 
(Vol. V, No. 4). Mr. Seaver gives a general account of the 
Group, reproduces in English, from the Pflanzen-familien, the 
complete key to the genera of Helvellineae and Pezizineae, de¬ 
scribes all the Iowa species with their bibliography, and furnishes 
admirable figures. He states that since the determinations have 
been made for the most part without material for comparison, 
any corrections by those interested will be gratefully received. 
Mr. E. Bartholomew has recently sent out the XX Cent¬ 
ury of Ellis and Everhart’s Fungi Columbiani (Nov. 15, 
1904). A wide range in the groups of fungi and in the terri¬ 
tory covered is represented by the specimens. The genus Puc- 
cinia is especially well represented — there being 27 specimens. 
With one specimen the description is furnished, namely, Aecidium 
batesianum Barth, n. sp. The usual data are printed on the 
labels, as host, locality, collector, also citation for the original 
publication. 
Notes on the variability of Hypothele repanda, an ar¬ 
ticle of four and a half pages, by Howard J. Banker, is published 
in the August number of Torreya (1904). The gist is con¬ 
tained in his “synopsis” which is as follows : 
Plant reddish buff. 
Plant small, less than 4 cm. wide, often umbilicate; spores large, 
8-Kk* wide. Form a. 
Plant large, stout, reaching 12 cm. wide, average width of cap 6-8 
cm.: pileus often cracked, sometimes into thick scales, deeply umbilicate; 
spores 7-8 n wide. Form b. 
Plant pale buff to cream color, slender, medium size, average 4-6 
cm. wide, rarely 7 cm.; spores 7 -8m wide. Form g. 
The Journal of Mycology, Vol. 11, No. 75 (Jan. 1905) 
contained the following; Morgan, Spaheria Calva Tode; Seaver, 
A New Species of Sphaerosoma; Arthur, Sydow’s Monographia 
Uredinearum, With Notes Upon American Species; Memminger, 
Agaricus Amygdalinus M. A. C.; Kellerman & Ricker, New 
