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(CeratorUa siliqua) with reference to its distribution; botany; varieties; propa- 

 gation; flowering, pollination, and fruiting; culture; commercial importance; 

 and economic uses. The work has been written with special reference to the ex- 

 tension of carob culture in Italy. 



The black wattle industry. — Acacia mollissima, A. decurrens var. mollis, 

 T. R. Sim (So. African Jour. Sci., IS (1917), No. 7, pp. 279-S01).—A general 

 and statistical account of the black wattle tanbark industry in Natal. 



Catalog^ue of the wood specimens exhibited in the economic section. T. V. 

 Narasinga Kao (Madras: Govt. Museum, 1916. pp. VI+ll.'f). — A catalogue of 

 the wood specimens exhibited in the Madras Government Museum, giving the 

 common names of the wood, distribution, characteristics, and uses. 



The grouping of ties for treatment, C. P. Winslow (Proc. Amer. Wood 

 Preservers' Assoc, IS (19111), pp. 3S6-41S, figs. S). — A paper presented at the 

 annual meeting of the American Wood Preservers' Association in New York 

 City in January, 1917, and discussing the proper grouping for preservative treat- 

 ment of woods used as railroad ties. 



Paper and wood pulp industry, W. A. Ruyp (Bur. of the Census [U. S.] 

 Census of Manfr. 191-^, Paper and Wood Pulp, pp. 19). — This coniririses a sum- 

 mary of the principal statistics for the paper and wood pulp industry as a whole 

 for 1914 and 1909, together with special statistics relating to materials, products, 

 equipment, imports, and exports. 



Forest products of Canada, 1916. — Pulpwood (Dept. Int. Canada, Forestry 

 Branch Bui. 62B (1917), pp. IS, figs. 7).— A statistical account of the pulp- 

 wood consumption in Canada in 1916. The Canadian mills consume<l l,7tVJ.9r2 

 cords valued at $13,104,458. while 1.06S.207 cords valued at $6,SG6,669 were 

 exported. 



DISEASES OF PLANTS. 



New or interesting species of fungi, H. D. HoirsE (.V. 7. State Mus. Bui. 188 

 (1916), pp. 29-58. pis. .')). — Among other fungi this list includes, as more or less 

 parasitic on economic plants, the new species Cercospora cnricis on Carcx follicu- 

 lata, Cercospora lathyri on Lathyrus maritimus, (Jlorosporiiim alnicola on .4/fi«« 

 rugosa, O. falcatuvi on Benzoin €estival^, G. hydrophylli on Hydrophyllum 

 canadense, Phoma pectinata on Abies pectinata. Phyllosticta steironcmatis on 

 Steironema ciliatuvi, Ramularia cichorii on Ci<horium intybus, Seolcscosporium 

 coryli on Corylus americnna, Septoria moUisia on Antenn<iria neodioica and A. 

 canadensis, S. tenuis on Carex tenuis, Stagonospora convolvuJi on Coni^olvulus 

 sepium, and Dothidella i^acciniicola on \'aciimum atrococcum ; the newly named 

 form Phoma bumelia (P. (Sphwropsis) maculans) on Bumelia ; and the newly 

 formed combination Septogloeum ochroleucum (Septoria ochroleuca) on Cas- 

 tanea dcntata. 



Texas parasitic fungi. — New species and amended descriptions, B. C. Tharp 

 (Mycologia, 9 (1917), No. 2, pp. 105-12 i). — The pathogenic fungi described in this 

 article, collected In 1914 to 1916 near Austin and in several points in east and 

 northeast Texas, Include, besides some previously known, the new .species Asco- 

 chyta boerhaaiHo', Cercospora aculypharum, C. ammanni<x. C. apiifolia;, C. arboricB, 

 C. bidentis, C. bliti, C. cnpitati. C. carolinensis. C. crythrinicola, C. flcina, C. 

 hehnii, C. hydrangcana. C. marrvbii. C. mirabilis. C. modiolo', C. nelumbonis, 

 C. nigri, C. nysscF, C. piaropi, C. populicola, C. p^ulcherrimce, C. regalis. C. roti- 

 gena, C. salHicola, C. texcnsis, C. torw, CoUctotrichum cinnamoni. Cnniothyrium 

 rho4,'<, C. ulmi, Exosporium Hquidainharis, E. platanorum. E. phoradendri, 

 Napicladium prosopodium-, Phleospora ptelece, Phyllachora texana, Phyllosticta 

 cei)halanthi. P. euonyini, P. verbenicola, Ramularia acalypha, R. salviioola, 



