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NOTES ON FOREIGN MYCOLOGICAL WORK. 
ese eee 
REVISION DES CHAMPIGNONS, tant Supérieurs qu’ inférieurs, trouves 
jusqu’a ce jour dans Les Pays-Bas. Dr. C. A. de Ay 
Oudemans. 
The second part of this book is now befor 
e the public, and is un- 
doubtedly, taken as a whole, by 
far the most important systematic 
work on Mycology that has appeared during recent times. The 
specific diagnoses are original and full, and the notes so frequently 
supplementing the specific diagnoses are of great value. Part I. 
(1893), contains the Hyménomycétes, Gasteromycétes, and Hypo- 
dermées. Part II. (1897), contains the Phycomycétes, and the 
Pyrenomycétes. 
MonoGRAPH OF THE LABOULBENIACEAE. 
Dr. Rowland Thaxter has produced under the above title (AZem, 
Amer, Acad. XII1., No. iii.), a charming volume illustrated by 26 
plates, dealing with a branch of Mycology of which he may b 
said to be the founder, 
Thaxter’s researches 
e truly 
since the allied forms known previous to Dr. 
were very few in number, and imperfectly 
