July 1906] Notes from Mycological Literature 
165 
May 1906. These are small Agarics which are tremelloid when 
fresh and growing, and when dry have the appearance of Maras- 
mii. Prof. Morgan affixes these to his Monograph of Marasmius 
(published in previous Nos. of the same Journal) to which genus 
in fact most of the species were originally referred. Both the 
Marasmius and the Heliomyces species are indexed together— 
and also issued as one pamphlet {Separate ). 
In Science for May 25, 1906, Charles J. Chamberlin 
points out that Mega as a prefix in such words as megaspore, 
megasporophyll, megasporocarp, megaphyllous, should be used 
rather than macro (macrospore, etc.), since mega, from the Greek 
me gas, means big, great, large, — equivalent to the Latin mag- 
nus, and is the opposite of micro. But macro means long, is not 
the opposite of micro, but of the Greek brachus which means 
short. If the idea is that of great size rather than of great length 
the prefix mega not macro should be used. 
Paraphyses in the Genus Glomerella, by John L. Shel¬ 
don, is reported in Science, N. S. 23 1851-2, 1 June 1906. Allusion 
to the fact is made, that there is no evidence that those who 
studied Gloeosporium (Atkinson, Stoneman, Clinton, Spaulding 
and von Schrenk) saw anything suggesting paraphyses — in fact, 
Clinton says ‘there was no sign of paraphyses/ and Spaulding and 
von Schrenk in describing the genus Glomerella say that it is 
‘aparaphysate.’ The author found in cultures of G. rufomaculans 
isolated from a Baldwin apple, perithecia containing long slender 
paraphyses. 
Fungi as related to weather and Fungi upon the Experi¬ 
ment Grounds — the former extracts from the weekly “Weather 
and Crop Bulletinsthe latter notes on the occurrence of a 
few parasitic fungi — are given on pp. 510-512 and 517 in the 
Report of the Botanist, [B. D. Halsted] N. J. Agr. Coll. Exp. 
Station Report for the year 1905, issued 1906. 
A Cause of Freak Peas is given with one half-tone illustra¬ 
tion of abnormal plants in Torreya for April, 1906. The cause is 
Ascochyta pisi Lib., a fungus that attacks not only the growing 
pea-stems and leaves, but also the pods and thence may grow 
into the seed. 
A Key to the Agariceae of temperate North America 
is given by William A. Murrill in the Dec. No. (1905) of Tor¬ 
reya. The Agariceae here enumerated are not ordinary gill- 
fungi, but a subfamily of the Polyporaceae with furrowed hy- 
menium. They are corky or woody, not fleshy. The genera in¬ 
cluded are Agaricus, Cerrena, Lenzites, Gloeophyllum and Cy- 
cloporus. The key is carried to the species in each case — gotten 
up on the dichotomal plan. 
