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making It Inadvisable in most cases for farmers to spend their time in this 

 way." 



Fertilizers and industrial wastes, F. W. Bbown (Saturday Even. Post, 189 

 (1911), No. 48, pp. 121, 122; Amer. Pert., 47 (1917), No. 1, pp. 58, 62, 64, 68).— 

 Attention is called to the loss of nitrogen, potassium, and phosphoric acid com- 

 pounds in industrial wastes, especially of potash in cement mills and blast- 

 furnace gases. 



Analyses of fertilizers (Bui. N. C. Dcpt. Agr., Sup., 58 (1917), No. 2, pp. 4).— 

 Tills bulletin contains the results of actual and guaranteed analysis of 54 

 samples of fertilizers and fertilizing materials collected for inspection in North 

 Carolina in February, 1917. 



FertiUzer analyses (Bui. N. C. Dept. Agr., S8 (1917), No. S, pp. i^).— This 

 bulletin contains the results of actual and guaranteed analyses of 268 sample.s 

 of fertilizers and fertilizing materials collected for inspection in North Carolina 

 during tlie spring of 1917. 



AGRICULTURAL BOTANY. 



International catalogTie of scientific literature. M — Botany (Intemat. Cat. 

 Sci. Lit., IS (1016), pp. V7// +67^). —This volume (E. S. R., 35, p. 29). though 

 listing mainly the literature of 1913, includes some of previous years, going 

 back as far as 1901. 



[Some investigations in the department of experimental evolution] (Car- 

 negie Imt. Washington Year Book, 15 (1916), pp. ISS, l.S^). — This section of 

 the report of this department includes condensed Information on the results of 

 work by J. A. Harris on the correlation between characters of leaves in normal 

 and abnormal bean seedlings, the correlation between homologous parts of a 

 plant, and a table of osmotic pressures based on depression of freezing point; 

 by lilm with Lawrence on plant sap In relation to environment on the Arizona 

 deserts ; and by tlie.se with Gortner on expressed regetable saps as affected in 

 their concentration by continued pressure. 



Wild flowers worth knowing, N. Blancuan, adapted by A. D. Dickinson 

 (Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, Page d Co., 1917, pp. XVIII +270, pla. 1,8, figs. 

 S9). — This book, adapted from Nature's Garden, a previous work by the author, 

 deals with a number of well-known families of plants. The nomenclature and 

 classilicatlou of Gray's New Manual of Botany, seventh eilltion, are followed 

 throughout. 



Fungi from Val d'Aosta, P. A. SACCARno (Nuovo Giov. Bol. Ital., n. ser.. £4 

 0917), No. 1, pp. S1-4S). — Among a number of fungi colUvte<i at various alti- 

 tudes in Val d'Aosta in 1916 and submitted for examination to the author, he 

 has designated as new s[)ecles Clitocybe thuHensis, FlTobasidium a-quale, 

 Bpharronemn oreophiium, Nctnvosphcera chanousiana, Rhahdospora bemardiana, 

 Cylindrosporium vaccarianum, Sporodesmium fumagineum, and Nothoditcua 

 antonice, the last named being considered aLso as representing a new genus. 



Fungi causing discolorations In paper, P. SliiE (Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. 

 [Paris], 164 (1917), No. 5, pp. 2.^0-2.?2).— Brief descriptions are given of dis- 

 colorations caui^ed in paper by the development of spores of certain fungi, also 

 an account of culture studies therewith. 



On Stigeosporium marattiacearum and the mycorrhlza of the Marattiaceee, 

 C. West (Ann. Bot. [Limdnn]. XI (1917). No. 121, pp. 77-99, pi. 1. figs. 9).— 

 The author describes a fungus, suiipusedly a new species and here named 

 S. marattiacearum, which forms an endotrophlc mycorrhlza with roots of cer- 

 tain genera ( Anglopteris, Archnngiopteris. Kanlfussla, and Marattla) of 

 Marattlacese, giving a discussion of its biology, systematic position, and probabl* 



