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charnus; Rehm, PI., Zum Studium der Pyrenomyceten Deutsch- 
lands, Deutsch-Osterreichs und der Schweiz; Saccardo, P. A., 
Notae Mycologicae; Neger, F. W., Kleinere mycologische Be- 
obachtungen; Hoehnel, Franz V. and Litschauer, Victor, Re¬ 
vision der Corticiceen in Dr. J. Schroter’s “Pilze-Schlesiens” nach 
seiner Herbar examplaren; Schorstein, Josepf, Sporenkeimung 
in Somete-losing: Neue Literatur. 
The Bulletin de la Societe Mycologique de France, Tome 
XXII — 2er Fascicule, presents this sommaire: L. Dolland. — 
Observations sur le Mycenastrum Corium Desv. et sur le Bovista 
plumbea Pers. (PI. VI); N. Patouillard et P. Hariot.— Fun- 
gorum novorum Decas secunda; A. de Jackzewski. — Notes phy- 
topathologiques: Alternaria Grossulariae n. sp. et Colletotrichum 
Grossulariae n. sp.; Paul Vuillemin. — Un nouveau genre de 
Mucedinees: Hemispora stellata (PI. VII); G. Bainier — My- 
cotheque de l’Fcole de Pharmacie, III (PI. VIII) ; Mycotheque 
de l’Rcole de Pharmacie, IV (PI. IX) ; Em. Boulanger. — Germi¬ 
nation de la spore echinulee de la Truffe; F. Gueguen. — La 
moisissure des caves et des celiers; etude critique, morphologique 
et biologique sur le Rhacodium cellare Pers. (Fin) ; X. Gillot.— 
Nouveaux tableaux scolaires de Champignons. — Notes toxi- 
mycologiques ; M. Barbier. — Empoisonnement par TEntoloma 
lividum. Ant. Magnin. — Les expositions mycologiques de Be- 
sancon. P. A. Saccardo. — Note sur les Herbiers mycologiques. 
Index bibliographique des travaux mycologiques parus en 
France et a l’etranger pendant l’annee 1904. 
A. P. Morgan's North American Species of Marasmius, 
publishd in the Journal of Mycology for September and Novem¬ 
ber 1905 (vol. 11) and January 1906 (vol. 12) “is an attempt at 
an orderly arrangement of the species thus far enumerated in 
North America, including the West India Islands. It is only an 
endeavor to get together the scattered species so that some crit¬ 
ical study of them may be made; hence the descriptions of the 
different authors are given as written and there is no indication 
of the synonyms which undoubtedly occur to some extent.” He 
says these are small or minute Agarics, growing for the most 
part upon wood or among the dead leaves in woods; they are 
easily dried in good shape and make elegant specimens for the 
herbarium. The species are numerous, especially abounding in 
the forests of tropical regions. More than 500 species are listed 
in Saccardo’s Sylloge, and Prof. Morgan includes 162 species as 
North American in this preliminary monograph. They are 
grouped under sections; these again are ranged in divisions, 
under which usually one or more sets of synoptical descriptive 
head-lines are given, thus practically furnishing a useful key 
for convenience in identifying the species. The parts have been 
issued as a Separate, bound together as one pamphlet. 
