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ing of the pear (Extomosporium maculatum),; Plum-rot (Monilia 
Sructigena),; Black-Knot of the Plum and Cherry; Leaf-spot 
Disease of the Plum and Cherry (Septoria Cerasina); Powdery 
Mildew of the Cherry (Podosphera Oxyacanthe); Peach-leaf 
Curl (Zaphrina deformans) and several others. 
The work will prove an important one for fruit growers, and 
can be had for seventy-five cents, bound in cloth, from the J. T. 
Lovett Co., at the place of publication. It is well illustrated and 
embellished by a portrait of the handsome and distinguished 
author. | N. L. B. 
Garrya elliptica. (Garden, xxxix. 261; illustrated). 
FHlackberry Branch Knot—Note on the Distribution and Ravages 
of the. W. A. Kellerman. (Trans. Kans. Acad. Sci. xii. 
IOI—104, illustrated.) 
A description of the affliction to which Celtis occidentalis is 
so generally subject, from the attacks of a gall mite (Phytopus) 
with the assistance of the fungus Spherotheca phytoptophila. 
Hydrastis, Canadensis—A Contribution to the Life History of. 
Homer Bowers. (Bot. Gaz. xvi. 73-82, pl. viii.) 
List of Plants found in Cherokee County, Texas—A Partial. 
Mrs. A. L. Slosson. (Trans. Kans. Acad. Sci. xii. 62, 63). 
A list of about 170 species, chiefly remarkable for the large 
number of typographical errors contained in it. 
Lygodium palmatum. (Garden, xxxix. 265, illustrated). 
Masdevallia macrura. (Bot. Mag. t. 7164). 
Notes on North American Trees—XXV. C.S. Sargent. (Gar- 
den and Forest, iv. 147-148). 
Professor Sargent concludes that the eastern Sugar Maple 
should bear the name Acer barbatum, Michx. (1803), regarding 
the A. saccharum, of Marshall (1785), as not safely referable to 
the tree, while the Linnean name A. saccharinum (175 3), belongs 
to the Silver Mapie. It appears to us that Marshall’s name can 
safely be attributed to the Sugar Maple, first, because it is the 
principal sugar-producing species, and thus the one to which the 
designation saccharum would naturally be applied by one en- 
tirely familiar with the native maples, which Linnzeus evidently | 
was not; second, because Marshall notes that ‘it flowers in the 
manner of the Red Maple,” indicating the production of flowers 
