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NOTES FROM MYCOLOGICAL LITERATURE. XII. 
W. A. kellerman. 
The British Mycological Society Transactions for 
the Season 1903, pp. 41-67, three colored plates, has the follow¬ 
ing contents: Report of the Savernake Forest Foray and com¬ 
plete list of Fungi and Mycetozoa gathered; Mycology as an 
instrument of recreation (Rev. W. L. W. Eyre) ; Occurrence of 
Echinostelium minutum (G. & A.) Lister; Diseases of Plants 
due to Fungi (Miss A. Lorrain Smith) ; Notes on Fungi recently 
collected (Miss A. Lorrain Smith) ; Two Phalloideae new to 
Europe (Carleton Rea) ; Fungi new to Brittain. 
Roland Thaxter’s Notes on the Myxobacteriaceae, 
Contributions from the Cryptogamic Laboratory of Harvard 
University, LVI, with plates XXVI and XXVII, is a model piece 
of literature and record of invaluable work on an interesting 
group of organisms. Dr. Thaxter vigorously controverts the 
view of Zederbauer, namely, that the Myxobacteriaceae as an 
independent order of organisms has no real existence; and that 
the conditions supposed to have been observed merely represent 
a symbiotic association between ordinary Eubacteria and hypho- 
mycetous molds. Dr. Thaxter regards this as a novel and some¬ 
what hasty view since the figures and descriptions in that author’s 
paper show as yet a non-acquaintance with any member of the 
order he discusses. Besides the critical and historical part, the 
article in the Botanical Gazette contains descriptions of eight 
new species — amply illustrated. 
