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rusts may possibly dispense with cell fusion, while retaining the 
more essential feature of the union of nuclei more or less widely 
separated in origin.” 
The articles in the Revue Mycologuique, October 1903, 
besides the reviews are as follows: Mycorrhizes des arbres for¬ 
estirs et sur le sens de la Symbiose des Racines, Georg F. L. 
Sarauw; L’Amanita mappa Fries estelle a ranger parmi les 
especes tres veneneuses? R. Ferry et H. Schmidt. 
In Revista Agronomica, Dezembro de 1903, J. Verissimo 
d'Almeida et M. de Souza da Camara, publish contributions 
ad Mycofloram Lusitaniae, Centuria III. Four species are listed, 
and a new genus is proposed, namely, Coutinia, Sphaeriaceae, a 
familia Dothideacearum praecipue differt stromate nullo. They 
also make correction of previous publication as follows: Puc- 
cinia maculicola n. sp. in Urginea Scilia est P. Asphodeli Duby, 
in Asphodeli sp. 
Islands Svampe af E. Rostrup published in Botanisk Tids- 
skrift, 25 :28 i~ 335, 1903, contains a list of 543 fungi. The author 
describes 22 new species: the diagnoses are in the latin language. 
In the Annals of Botany (17:167-236, Pl. XII-XIII, 
Jan. 1903) is published an extended article by T. P. Barker, 
on The Morphology and Development of the Ascocarp in Monas- 
cus. “These considerations point to the view that Monascus 
represents a low and comparatively simple type of Ascomycete 
and is not far removed from a common ancestral type, from 
which all the higher Ascomyces may be supposed to have sprung.” 
Albert Howard, whose investigation on some Diseases 
of the Sugar-Cane in the West Indies is published in the 
Annals of Botany, 17:373-411, PI. XVIII, March 1903, con¬ 
cludes that Thielaviopsis ethaceticus Went, (and not Melan- 
conium sacchari Massee) causes a disease of cane-cuttings which 
is the same as the “pine apple” disease in Java; the ‘rind/ disease 
is caused by Colletotrichum falcatum Went.; the common root 
disease of the sugar-cane in Barbados is caused by Marasmius 
sacchari Wakker. 
Miss E. Dale contributes an interesting and import¬ 
ant article. Observations on Gymnoascaceae, Annals of 
Botany, 17:571-596, PI. XXVII-XXVIII, June 1903. The in¬ 
vestigations “leave no doubt as to the occurrence of a sexual 
process in the Gymnoascaceae, if not in every species, at least 
in Gymnoascus reesii and in G. candidus. Such a process has 
not before been described, though it was assumed.” 
Two Fungi, parasitic on species of Tolypothrix (Res- 
ticularia nodosa Dang, and R. boodlei n. sp.) by F. E. Fritsch 
(Annals of Botany, 17:649-664, PI. XXIX, Sept. 1903) is an 
