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except that, on account of the hulls, oats and barley should be soaked 
longer.—E. A. SouTHWORTH. 
Bolley, Henry L. The Ilcteroeeismal Pucci nice. American Monthly 
Microscopical Journal, Vol. X, 1861). 
The author of this paper starts with a general account of the biology 
and classification of the Uredinecc , gives a short description of theinternal 
arrangement of the order, as well as its position among the fungi, and 
a definition of hctercecism , ascribing as a cause “inherent wants of the 
parasite net to be satisfied by one of its hosts alone,” rather than to any 
difficulty which the promycelia might find to an entrance into the host 
tissue. Taking up the mycelium, a short description is given, with a 
belief that there are no true baustoria, but that young mycelial threads, 
penetrating the cell walls, give the misleading appearance. The article 
treats of secidiaand spermogonia at some length, without, however, at¬ 
tempting to clear up the mystery of their designed use. Under the ac¬ 
count of the teleutospore, a doubt is expressed in regard to the existence 
of the so-called germ-pores. The author finds in the process of germin¬ 
ation, instead of the passage of a germ-tube through a previously 
formed canal, a gradual erosion of the eudospore from within. In re¬ 
gard to the question of sexual or non-sexual reproduction in the order, 
the work of Dr. George Massee is criticised, claim being made that the 
stroma, which bears ultimately the secidial spores, does not consist, as 
figured by the latter, of a stalked body, but of a mass of interlaced 
hyplue—branches and extensions of ordinary hyphse. In the cases 
studied by Mr. Bolley JE. berberidis and 2E. hepaticarum , the basidia 
arise as bud-like branches from individual hyplue without any charac¬ 
teristics of a sexual process, and the author coincides with II. Mar¬ 
shall Ward in the thought that this process has disappeared, not being 
longer needed by the fungus.—D. G. Fairchild. 
Farlow, W. G. Notes on Fungi. Botanical Gazette, August, 1S89. 
In the last number of the Botanical Gazette Dr. Fallow gives an ac¬ 
count of a Cystopus causing peculiar swellings on the stems of Ipomcea 
pandurata , sent him by Prof. L. II. Pammel from Missouri. It appears 
from the note that the form of Cystopus upon the Convolnulacece of the 
United States has hitherto been found wanting in oospores, raising the 
question whether or not it should be united under C. cubicus (Strauss), 
Lev., which inhabits the Compositce. The specimens sent by Professor 
Pammel seem to have abounded in peculiar oospores. The oogonia also 
differed from those of others of the same genus, in having their walls 
raised in blunt papillae or short flexuous ridges over the whole surface. 
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Differing as it does in oogonia and oospores from C. cubicus , the author 
thinks it clearly can not be placed under it. The name C. convolvulace- 
arum , Otth, used by Kelierman and Ellis, is considered, after correspon¬ 
dence with Dr. Fischer, of Berne, as only a manuscript name used by 
