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i 1914] Book Review 79 
The summer meeting of 1914 is to be held at West Haven, with 
headquarters at Fairhaven, during the second week of July. 
The officers elected are Pres. Ezra Brainerd, Middlebury; Vice-pres. 
W. W. Eggleston, U. S. Dep’t. Agric. Washington, D. C.; See. Dr. 
George P. Burns, Burlington; Treas., Mrs. Nellie F. F lynn, Burling- 
ton; Editor of the Bulletin, George L. Kirk, Rutland; Librarian, Miss 
Phoebe M. Towle, Burlington.— NELLIE F. FLYNN. 
Tug FUNGI WHICH CAUSE PrLANT-DiskAsk. By F. L. SrEVENS.I— 
This volume of about 750 pages with 449 text figures is a companion to 
the author's “Diseases of Economic Plants" and “is intended to 
introduce to the student the more important cryptogamic parasites 
affecting economic plants in the United States, with sufficient keys and 
descriptions to enable their identification." The treatment includes 
the Mycetozoa and Bacteria, which occupy fifty pages, the rest of the 
book being devoted to the Kumycetes. 
Professor Stevens has attempted the somewhat difficult task of 
combining in small compass a text book, a synopsis of the more im- 
portant genera and families of the fungi, and a manual of plant 
diseases. General matters of reproduction and structure and even of 
cytology are taken up in connection with each main group. Keys are 
given to the genera, families, orders etc., and a very large number of 
forms are mentioned by name at least; while those of greater economic 
importance are in general fully treated, usually with figures and cita- 
tions of literature. It has no doubt been a very difficult matter to 
decide which forms should receive full consideration .and which 
should be passed over with scant mention or omitted entirely from an 
enumeration which aims to be so comprehensive as the present, and 
no two persons would probably agree in making such a selection. It 
is thus not always evident what has determined the choice of forms to 
be treated at length; as for example in the case of Echinodothis, 
which is given nearly a page, while various other forms of equal or 
much greater economic importance, receive scant reference or are 
omitted. The figures which are taken from various sources are suffi- 
cient and usually good. Mycologists will not, however, recognize 
Clitocybe parasitica in fig. 327. There is no separate host-index and 
no indication of the diseases referred to under host-names in the 
general index. Such an arrangement does not seem to be a very 
convenient one for a book to be used for ready reference. Under 
‘Oak’ for example forty pages are cited by number, and agaln others 
under ‘Quercus’ some of which are not included under ‘Oak.’ The 
1 The Macmillan Co., New York, 1913. $4.00. 
