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use of common names, only, for hosts is often confusing or inexact, as 
is usually the case in such a connection. The several lists of literature, 
cited in the text by consecutive numbers and following the main 
groups, appear to be full; but do not, as a rule, indicate the nature of 
the subject treated. The reviewer has not taken pains to verify any 
of the citations, and it is to be hoped that they have been carefully 
gone over; but the proof reading of the text has evidently been hastily 
done. Ina cursory examination of the latter, several quite contradic- 
tory statements have been noticed, even in single sentences, and there 
are numerous errata, for the most part misspelled words. Although 
it is a question how usable this book will prove to persons who have 
not access to much fuller literature, it will assuredly be of great use to 
working phytopathologists as a convenient compendium of generally 
well selected matter relating to the economically more important 
fungi producing plant-diseases.— R. T. 
Vol. 16, no. 183, including pages 45 lo 56, was issued 23 March, 1914. 
