Eumycetes. 
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gustica. Contributo secondo. (Atti R. Istituto Bot. Univ. di 
Pavia. ser. II. XIII. p. 273—289. 1908.) 
Seconde contribution ä la connaissance de la flore mycologique 
de la Ligurie; l’auteur y enumere 134 especes, qui portent le 
nombre des Champignons connus jusqu’ä present de cette region ä 
660 maero- et ä 660 micromycetes environ. R. Pampanini. 
Mangin et Patouillard. Sur une moisissure du ble latouag, 
le Monilia Arnoldii nov. sp. (Bull. Soc. mycol. France. XXIV. p. 
156—164. 5 fig. texte.) 
Les indigenes d’Algerie conservent leur ble dans des silos oü 
il subit une Serie de fermentations. Le latouag est le ble altere 
dans ces conditions par des moisissures diverses qui lui ötent sa 
valeur nutritive et lui communiquent des proprietes toxiques. C’est 
une de ces moisissures que les auteurs ont isolee, cultivee et decrite 
sous le nom de Monilia Arnoldi. Les cultures offrent des sortes de 
sclerotes noirs jusqu’ä present steriles, des touffes blanches de fila- 
ments fins qui se dressent cä et lä; mais le substratum est recou- 
vert, dans sa plus grande partie, d’un gazon blanc jaunätre bientöt 
saupondre de conidies d’un brun chocolat. Celles-ci ont une surface 
verruqueuse, un diametre de 6—7^; eiles sont reunies au nombre de 
20 environ par des isthmes etroits et naissent en direction basipete 
au sommet d’un filament simple. Parfois les conidiophores sont 
coremies. P. Vuillemin. 
Smith, W. G., Synopsis of the British Basidiomycetes: a de- 
scriptive Catalogue of the Drawings and Specimens in the 
Department of Botan}^. (British Museum. 531 pp. 5 plates and 
145 figures in Text. 8°. 10 p. 1905.) 
The author furnishes in a single volume a description of all 
the British Hymenomycetes and Gasteromycetes and thus has produ- 
ced a work which has long been a desideratum in England. The 
“Synopsis”, entitled a descriptive catalogue of the drawings and 
specimens in the Department of Botany in the British Museum, 
contains the names of about 2130 species and therefore may well 
be regarded as covering the entire British flora. 
The species bear numbers agreeing with those of the drawings 
in the museum to which the work acts as a guide; the numbers at 
the same time facilitate the use of the keys to species found in the 
book. The sequence of the genera of the same as that of Fries’s 
Hymenomycetes Europaei (1874), being the arrangement adopted 
with the drawings referred to. Synonymy and all references to lite- 
rature are omitted. A series of tables in the end of the book show 
the generic distinctions of the Agarics, in addition to which each 
genus is illustrated by line drawings. The specific descriptions are 
brief, being limited to the essential features, as seen with the unaided 
eye or pocket lens. Details of the spores and other microscopic 
characters are not given. 
The author has followed the Vienna Rules and therefore a very 
large number of alterations appear in the authorities quoted for 
Fries’s subgenera of Agaricus which are treated as genera. Novel- 
ties are few. A new genus — Togaria — is founded, into which the 
author places the terrestial species of Pholiota, and two new species 
of Russula are described R. mitis W.G.Sm. and R. luteotacta Rea 
in herb. A. D. Cotton (Kew). 
