July 1906] Notes from Mycological Literature 
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F. Gueguen. — La moisissure des caves et des celliers; etude 
critique, morphologique et biologique sur le Rhacodium cellare 
Pers. (avec 3 planches,); L. Lutz. — Associations symbio- 
tiques du Saccharomyces Radaisii Lutz; Bibliographic analy- 
tique. 
M. le docteur Baret reports in the Bulletin de la Societe My- 
cologique de France the following list of edible species sold in 
the market of Nantes during the year 1905: Amanita caesarea, 
Lepiota procera, L. rachodes, L. excoriata, L. pudica, Psalfiota 
campestris, P. ammophila, P. arvensis, P. pratensis, P. syl- 
vatica, P. bernardii, Clitopilus orcella, Marasmius oreades, Len- 
tinus tigrinus, Tricholoma personatum, Clitocybe laccata, Bo¬ 
letus edulis, B. aestivalis, B. aereus, B. scaber, B. scaber var. 
auranticus, B. luteus, Fistulina hepatica, Hydnum repandum, 
Craterellus cornucopioides, and Lycoperdon giganteum. 
Bruce Fink’s article in the March No. (1905) of the Bry- 
ologist on How to Collect and Study Lichens, deals fully with 
the subject under the following heads: Introductory, Collect¬ 
ing, Collecting Outfit, Where to Collect, Aids at Home, The 
Study at Home, and the Herbarium. 
Further Notes on Cladonias, V, by Bruce Fink, the Bry- 
ologist, May 1905, deals with Cladonia gracilis (L.) Willd., 
widely distributed over North America, not occurring in the 
southern half of the United States. The varieties which are 
also fully described are dilatata (Hofifm.) Wainio dilacerata 
Flk., chordahs (Flk.) Shaer., aspera Flk., and elongata (Jacq.) 
Flk. 
Lichenology for Beginners is the title of a very instructive 
article by Frederick Leroy Sargent in the May (1905) No. of the 
Bryologist. What these plants are is discussed, then their 
habits, distribution, etc., receive attention with suggestions for 
collecting and taking care of specimens. The second install¬ 
ment is found in the July No.; it is illustrated, fully explaining 
the characters of a Parmelia. 
The Transactions of the British Mycological Society for 
the season 1904, published 13th May 1905, includes the follow¬ 
ing contents: Report of the Whitby Foray and complete list of 
Fungi and Mycetozoa gathered; Eriksson’s recent researches 
on the vegetative life of the Cereal Rust Fungi, by Charles P. 
Plowright; Saccardo’s De diagnostica et nomenclatura myco- 
logica, admonita quaedam; Recent Researches on Parasitism, 
by R. H. Biffen; Corticium (Peniophora) chrysanthemi, by 
Charles B. Plowright, M. D.; Notes on three uncommon Fungi, 
by Cecil H. Sp. Percival; Fungi new to Britain, by Miss A. 
Lorrain Smith F. L. S. and Carleton Rea, B. C. L., M. A. & C. 
