1881!. ] 
NEW LITERATURE. 
i.‘n 
stromate iiisidentia vel immersa, coiitigua. contextii librosa, globosa, 
iiicollum subaeqiiilongum crassiusculum rectum vel subinde flexuosum 
erumpentum, attenuata; asci elongato-clavati; paraphysati octospori; 
sporse oblongie didyme fuscesceiites. Ab aliis generibus phseodidymus, 
stromate byssoides et peritheciis fibrosis, prsecipue diverstim. Amico 
carissimo Joseplio Gibelli^ in Arcliigymnasio Taurinensi Botanices, 
Professore Prseclaro, dicatum. One species [O. cerealis. Passer.) is 
described, infesting dying culms of Tnticum vulgaris. 
“FungiGalliciexsiccati, Centukie XXXIXe.” C. Roumeguere. 1.c. 
“ CnAMPIGNOUS MONSTRUEUX DES CARRIERES DE PHOSPHATES DE 
CHAUX DU Quercy.” C. Roumeguere. 1. c. 
“ OlIAHPlGNOUS RARES OU NOUVEAUX DE LA CHARENTE-INFERIEURE.’’ 
Dr. G. Passerini et P. Brunaud. 
“ Fungi Australiensis, Auctore.’' Dr. G. Winter. 1. c. 
*• Un HyPHOHYCETE nouveau DES FEUILLES VIVANTES DU jACQUIElt 
(Strumella Darntiana, Roumeg. et Wint., nov. sp.) 1. c. 
“UeBER das MASSENHAFTE VoRKOMMEN EINER 3IERKWUERDIGEN 
ASC03IYCETEN SPECIES, PeZIZA (O^IBROPHILA) ClAVUS ALB. ET 
ScHW., U3I Greiz.” Von Dr. F. Ludwig. Deutsche Bototanisclie 
Monatsscbrift, August and September, 1880. 
“ On the Morphology of Ravenlia GLANDULyEFOR3iis.” By G. II. 
Parker. From the “ Proceedings of the Academy of Arts and 
Sciences, Vol. XXIF’ (issued September, 1880). 
The investigation was undertaken at the suggestion of Dr. Farlow, 
the material (on Tephrosia Virgmiana) having been furnished in 1879 by 
II. W. Ravenel. The paper deals with the morphology of the teleuto- 
sporic stage. The heads usually occupy depressions made by the uredo- 
spores. Each one is an umbrella-like mass, connected with the host by 
a moderate stalk. “Three regions may be defined in it: First, the spore- 
mass or brown, cap-like cluster of cells at tlie top; second, the cyst 
region, composed of cells, with their transparent walls connecting the 
spore-mass with the third, or stalk region, consisting of a series of com¬ 
pressed, parallel cells, passing from the cysts to the leaf-tissue below.” 
* * “ In the course of the development of the head, no feature has pre¬ 
sented itself which cannot be easily harmonized with the proposition 
that the head is ii bundle of fused hyphse-bearing spores.” The paper 
(of fourteen pages) gives, fully, the mode of investigation of this species 
and the comparison of others of the same genus. It is also accompanied 
with twenty-one good figures, illustrating fully Ii. glandulmformis, B. A 
(h, and partially H. ses.^ilis. Berk., E. Indica, Berk., E. glabra, C. A K.. 
and E. .stictica, Bk. A Br. 
••An Interesting Peronospora.” By B. D. Halsted, Botanical 
Gazette, October, 1880. 
The species reported (P. graminicola, Schw.) was known in this 
country only from Minnesota. Dr. Ilalsted finds it abundant this year, 
and very “ vigorous,” on Setaria viridi.^, at Ames, Iowa. 
•• Ilo-ME-.MADE Bacteria Apparatus.” T. .1. Hurrill. 1. c. 
