76 Transactions British Mycological Society Die Pilze Mitteleuropas. Band 1. Die Rohrlinge (Boletaceae). By FRANZ KALLENBACH. Leipzig: Dr Werner Klinkhardt, 1926. 4 marks each Lieferung. Under the general editorship of Professors H. Kniep, P. Claussen and J. Bass, three German scientific societies are publishing an atlas of the higher fungi of Central Europe. As is well known the late Adalbert Hicken, author of the important Die BliUterpilze (Agaricaceae) intended to complete his work with the consideration of the other Basidiomycetes. After his death in 1921 the Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Pilzkunde took up the idea and apportioned the work to various specialists. The scheme of publication is to issue every two or three months four plates, of which two are coloured, together with the appropriate text. Two fascicles are now to hand. Plate I shows Boletus satanus (ten drawings), and Plate 2 this species with Boletus rhodoxanthus, B. erythropus, B. luridus, and B. miniatoporus (six drawings). The plates are 13!" x 10". The two black and white plates of the first fascicle (numbered 10 and II) give fourteen photographs and one anatomical drawing. The text of four pages is devoted to a very full account of B. satanus: summary of original diagnosis, extended description, edible qualities, distinguishing characters, microscopic characters, habitat, distribution, history, literature and short diagnosis. The second fascicle has two coloured plates only, the first with eleven figures of rhodoxanthus, the second with the same number of B. impolitus: the text has not yet been issued. The next plates (nos. 5-9) are to show B. pseudo-sulphureus Kallenb., B. pulverulentus, B. rimosus, B. erythropus, and B. regius. The plates are very good of their type but heavily loaded paper printed in the three-colour process is never very pleasing. They are incomparably better than those in Rieken's work which are often said to have been badly printed on account of war conditions-but publication began in 1910 and was more than twothirds through in Aug. 1914. The value of the present leones will be in the number of figures devoted to one species giving stages of development of different examples in a manner recalling Barla's Les Champignons des Alpes-maritimes. It is a matter of congratulation that owing to the original scheme of continuing Rieken's work the beginning is made with Boletus and not Amanita. So that even if unfortunately it should turn out that for some reason publication has to be discontinued, mycologists will have drawings of some species not previously well done. If the scheme is carried out in full (e.g. twenty fascicles for the Boletaceae alone) the Atlas will be the most complete in existence. The price is to be raised to five marks after the issue of the third fascicle. The British Mycological Society wish the German Mycological Society every success in their heavy undertaking. . J.R.

Franz Kallenbach, ,Die Pilze Mitteleuropas Band 1. Die Rohrlinge (Boletaceae) (1926) Dr Werner Klinkhardt,Leipzig 4 marks each Lieferung

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76 Transactions British Mycological Society

Die Pilze Mitteleuropas. Band 1. Die Rohrlinge (Boletaceae).By FRANZ KALLENBACH. Leipzig: Dr Werner Klinkhardt,1926. 4 marks each Lieferung.Under the general editorship of Professors H. Kniep, P. Claussen and J. Bass,

three German scientific societies are publishing an atlas of the higher fungiof Central Europe. As is well known the late Adalbert Hicken, author of theimportant Die BliUterpilze (Agaricaceae) intended to complete his work withthe consideration of the other Basidiomycetes. After his death in 1921 theDeutschen Gesellschaft fur Pilzkunde took up the idea and apportioned thework to various specialists. The scheme of publication is to issue every twoor three months four plates, of which two are coloured, together with theappropriate text. Two fascicles are now to hand. Plate I shows Boletus satanus(ten drawings), and Plate 2 this species with Boletus rhodoxanthus, B. erythropus,B. luridus, and B. miniatoporus (six drawings). The plates are 13!" x 10".

The two black and white plates of the first fascicle (numbered 10 and II) givefourteen photographs and one anatomical drawing. The text of four pages isdevoted to a very full account of B. satanus: summary of original diagnosis,extended description, edible qualities, distinguishing characters, microscopiccharacters, habitat, distribution, history, literature and short diagnosis. Thesecond fascicle has two coloured plates only, the first with eleven figures ofrhodoxanthus, the second with the same number of B. impolitus: the text hasnot yet been issued. The next plates (nos. 5-9) are to show B. pseudo-sulphureusKallenb., B. pulverulentus, B. rimosus, B. erythropus, and B. regius. The platesare very good of their type but heavily loaded paper printed in the three-colourprocess is never very pleasing. They are incomparably better than those inRieken's work which are often said to have been badly printed on accountof war conditions-but publication began in 1910 and was more than twothirds through in Aug. 1914.

The value of the present leones will be in the number of figures devoted toone species giving stages of development of different examples in a mannerrecalling Barla's Les Champignons des Alpes-maritimes. It is a matter of congratulation that owing to the original scheme of continuing Rieken's workthe beginning is made with Boletus and not Amanita. So that even if unfortunately it should turn out that for some reason publication has to bediscontinued, mycologists will have drawings of some species not previouslywell done. If the scheme is carried out in full (e.g. twenty fascicles for theBoletaceae alone) the Atlas will be the most complete in existence. The priceis to be raised to five marks after the issue of the third fascicle. The BritishMycological Society wish the German Mycological Society every success in theirheavy undertaking. .

J.R.