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these temperatures, hut also at much lower ones, even —40°, when,'by the freezing of a part 
of its water of constitution, the lichen has taken the consistency of a block of ice. "Low tem- 
p eratures therefore stop respiration while permitting the assimilation of carbon— i. e., they 
anect the fungus and not the alga. By reason of the double constitution of lichens these 
two sorts of gaseous exchange which go on simultaneously in green plants in light can be 
separated by the action of heat, respiration only, carried’on by the fuugus, persisting at 
high temperatures and assimilation only, carried on by the alga, persisting at low tempera¬ 
tures. (E. F. S.) ' ® 1 
907. Webster, F. M 
v 
3STER, F. M. A podurid which destroys the red rust of wheat. <Inseet Life, 
-ol. ii, Washington, Jau.-Feb., 1890, pp. 259-260. 
Records a species of Neuropter (Smynthurus) feeding on uredospores of wheat rust (Pi 
cima rubigo-vera). While the spores eaten are destroyed, the hairs on the body of the insec 
wc- 
_ _ _insects 
serve to convey other spores from one plant to another and thus aid in distributing it. (J. 
F. J.) 
See also Nos. 661, 721, 724, 732, 760, 769, 854, 933, and 939.) 
F.— MORPHOLOGY AND CLASSIFICATION OF FUNGI. 
I.—GENERAL WORKS. 
008 . 
OOO. 
Bailey, F. M. Botany: Contributions to the Queensland flora. <Dept. of A«ri. 
Queensland, Bull. No. 9, Brisbane, May, 1891, p. 32. 
Gives description of Gloeosporium pestiferum Cke. & Mass., as occurring in the colony. 
(J. F. J.) J 
Bailey, F. M. Contributions to the Queensland flora. <Dept. Agile, of Queens¬ 
land, Bull. No. 13, Brisbane, Dec., 1891, pp. 39, pi. 6. 
Under fungi 
(J. F. J.) ' 
(pp. 36-38) gives list of species found with descriptive notes. 
No new species. 
910 . Bornet, M. Prix Desmazieres (Commissaires: MM. Duchartre, Van Tieghem, Chatin. 
Trecul; Bornet, rapporteur). <Compt. rend. Acad. d. sci., vol. exm, Paris. 
Dec. 21, 1891, pp. 918-920. 
Notes the conferring of this Academic prize on A. N. Berlese for meritorious work in My¬ 
cology. especially for three important publications. (1) A monograph of the genera Pleos- 
pora , Clathrospora, and Pyrenophora, forming a volume of 260 pages, accompanied by 12 col¬ 
ored plates, representing 111 species; (2) leones Fungorum ad usum Sylloges Saccardiance 
accomodatce , of which great enterprise two parts illustrating Pyrenomycetes have been 
issued; (3) Fungi moricolce , a volume containing 200 pages and 71 colored plates designed and 
lithographed by the author, and in which he has doubled the number of fungi known pre¬ 
viously to occur on the mulberry, and brought out various other interesting facts, e g., that 
the fungous flora of tho mulberry is quite different from that of the olive, but related to that of 
the elm and Bromonetia , and that certain groups of fungi are wholly wanting, notably tho 
Hypodermei, wanting also on the orange. (E. F. S.) 
911 . Chatin, M. Prix Thore (Commissaires: MM. Duchartre, Blanchard, Van Tieghem, 
Bornet; Chatin, rapporteur). <Comp. rend. Acad, des sc., vol. cxiii, Paris’ 
Dec. 21, .1891, p. 923. 
Note on the conferring of this academic prize on MM. J. Constantin and L* Du four for 
their Nouvclle Flore des Champignons. This flora, modeled on M. Gaston Bonnier's plneno- 
gamie flora, contains 3,812 figures, and has for its objectAhe easy determination of all the 
fungi growing in France as well as of most European species. (E. F. S.) 
912 . Colenso, W. An enumeration of fungi recently discovered in New Zealand. 
<Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst, for 1890, vol. xxm, Wellington, May 
1891, pp. 391-398. 
Gives list of species collected in New Zealand as identified by M. C. Cooke in London 
Eng. (J. F.J.) 
913. Ellis, J. B., and Everhart, B. M. New species of fungi. <(Jour. Mycol., vol. 
vii, No. 2, Washington, Mar. 10, 1892, pp. 130-135. 
The following new species are described: Puccinia suksdorfii on leaves of Troximon glau- 
cum: P. agropyri on leaves of Agropyrum glaucum.; Stictis compressa on dead limbs of Car- 
pinus americana; Tryblidiella pygmcea, on weather-beaten wood; Valsaria hypoxyloides on 
shrub or tree from Paraguay ; Phyllosticta gelsemii on leaves of Gelsemium sempervirens 
(cult.) ; P. rhododendri on leaves of Bhododendron catawbiense; Sphceropsis albescens on 
dead limbs of Negundo aceroides; Stagonospora spinacice on spinach; Septoria elymi on 
leaves of Elymus canadensis; S. jackmani, on loaves of Clematis jackmani; S. saccharina on 
leaves of seedling Acer saccharinum; S. drummondii , on leaves of Phlox drummondii; Hen- 
dersonia geographica, on fal. n and decaying chestnut leaves; Gloeosporimn catalpce on 
leaves of Catalpa bignonioides; G. decolorans on leaves of Acer rub rum; Melanconium mag- 
nolice on dead trunks of Magnolia glauca; Pestalozzia lateripes on dead legumes of Cassia 
chamcecrista; Scolecotrichum caricce on leaves of Carica papaya: Macrosporium tabacinum 
on leaves of cultivated tobacco; M. longipes on the same; Brachysporium canadense para¬ 
sitic on Valsa ambiens ?; and Clasterosporium populi on leaves of Populus tremuloides, and 
P. grandidentata. (J. F. J.) 
