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The British Mycological Society is publishing its Transactions 
with great rapidity. The parts 1 and 2 (issued together on Sept. 29 ; 
15s. n.) of vol. ix. contain accounts of the Norwich and Keswick 
Forays (1922) with lists of the species observed, and a report on 
Keswick Lichens and Mycetozoa ; an address by Mr. F. T. Brooks on 
“ Some Present-day Aspects of Mycology ” ; and a paper by Mr. Carle- 
ton Kea, somewhat unattractively printed, on Edible Fungi; Mr. Fetch 
continues his “ Studies in Entomogenous Fungi ” ( Torrubiella , with 
an excellent coloured plate) and has a note on his genus Triclio- 
sterigma , which proves to be identical with Hirsutella Pat. ; Miss 
Lister writes on j Lampoderma columbinum and its varieties ; Mr. W. 
1). Buckley describes new British Discomycetes, with a new genus, 
Ramsbottomia, from Dunoon ; Mr. P. J. Alexander gives the result 
of ten years’ study of the “ Ecology and Phenology of Surrey Myce¬ 
tozoa ”; Mr. Somerville Hastings describes and figures an alpine 
form of Anellaria separata ; Mr. B. C. McLean offers “ Bemarks on 
the Nature and Definition of Species ” ; Miss W. L. Hake catalogues 
the British specimens of Laboulbeniacecje in the Tliaxter Collection 
at the British Museum; Mr. W. F. Bidler discusses “The Fungus 
present in Lunularia cruciata ” (1 pi.); I. A. Hoggan writes on 
Dematium pullulans De Bary ; and B. St. John Brooks and Mabel 
Bhodes give a “List of Fungi, &c. maintained in the National Col¬ 
lection of Type Cultures ”—altogether a varied and interesting 
number. 
The Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society for September 
(xlviii. parts 2 & 3) contains an interesting paper on “ Some Early 
Italian Gardening Books ”—“ the fruits of a hurried search in 
Italian book shops and street barrows ”—by Mr. E. A. Bunyard, 
illustrated by four reproductions of plates, one of them (from Arena’s 
Coltura di Fiori, 1768) containing figures of 28 pollen grains; another, 
a beautiful drawing of a lily, is from the Varice ac Multiformes 
Florum Species of Nicolas Bobert (1665 ?)—a series of copper plates 
rightly described by Mr. Bunyard as “ magnificently executed ” 
and undoubtedly a scarce work, as Pritzel only refers to it as in 
Jussieu’s library. Mr. Bunyard will find it thus entered in the first 
edition of Pritzel, which contains many works on gardening omitted, 
from the second, including, we think, others of those mentioned in 
his list. The paper contains numerous notes of interest on many 
of the books mentioned, and a bibliography, ranging from 1474 
to 1792, is appended; the letter-press presents a rather curious 
appearance, on account of the very small paragraphs, often of only 
one sentence, into which it is broken up. The Journal also includes 
a memoir with portrait of the Bev. William Wilks (1S43-1923), 
Secretary of the Society from 1888 to 1920 ; a paper on “ Autumn 
Crocuses,” by Mr. E. A. Bowles, with 8 plates; and an account, by 
Mr. F. Kingdon Ward, of “The Flora of the Tibetan Marshes”— 
altogether an excellent number. 
Einfuhrung in die Ffianzenpathologie , by H. Morstatt (Bom- 
traeger, Berlin, 3 s.) (“ Made in Germany”) is noteworthy in so far as 
