156 A MONOGRAPH OF THE BRITISH UREDINE.E AND USTILAGINEiE . 



RUBELLA, 44 ; RUPicoLA, 13 ; Selloana, 104 ; Sintensii, 12 ; 



SPH.TEROCEPHALA, 141 ; STROBILANTHA, 168 ; SwARTZII, 12 ; TRITICEA, 



42 ; Turneri, 144 ; Tweediana, 138 ; all of Baker. — T. Baker- 



lANA and T. corcoyadensis Britten. J. Bot. 172. 

 Trichodesma Boissieri Post. Asia Minor. J. L. Soc. xxiv. 436. 

 Trifolium Alsadami and T. Candollei Post. Asia Minor. J. L. 



Soc. xxiv. 425. 

 Trigonella laxiflora Aitch. d Baker. Afghanistan. Trans. L. Soc. 



iii. 47. 

 Utricularia bryophila PddL West Africa. Ann. Bot. ii. 306, t. 19. 

 Urera tenax N. E. Br. Natal. Ic. PL 1748. 

 Yerbascum Barbeyi, v. gileadense, and V. qulebicum Post. Asia 



Minor. J. L. Soc. xxiv. 436-7. 

 Vernonia esculenta HemsL China. J. L. Soc. xxiii. 401. 

 Viburnum arborescens, V. brachybotryum, V. Carlesii, V. Henryi, 



V. propinquum, V. rhytidophyllum, V. utile, all of HemsJeij. 



China. J. L. Soc. xxiii. 349-56. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 

 A Monograph of the British Vredinea and UstilarjinecB. By C. B. 



Plowright, F.L.S. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. 



Bvo, pp. vii. 347 ; 8 plates. Price 10s. M. 

 It has been said that " all things come to him who waits," and 

 to a certain extent the aphorism is true ; but many of us have 

 become grey-headed in waiting for an English work, by an English 

 author, that would place us on a level with some of our continental 

 neighbours in our laiowledge of the plants dealt with in this book. 

 To gather up and classify the biological and morphological facts 

 that have been established by his predecessors, and to add from his 

 own original observations to the general stock, is a task much 

 beyond the mere compiler's power. There are evidences in Mr. 

 Plowright's Monograph that he has accomplished the task in a 

 painstaking and workman-like manner. 



The object, he tells us, of the work is to provide the British 

 student, not only with improved specific descriptions of the numerous 

 parasitic fungi, included under Uredinea and Usti/ar/inrfr, but also an 

 account of their life-history, as far as bitlicrto ascertained. With a 

 view of satisfactoril}^ accomplishing this, he has freely availed him- 

 self of the works of those biologists who have made these plants a 

 special study. We designedly say biologists, for in no other large 

 group of fungi has the classification been more revolutionised by tlie 

 biologist than in this. It is no disparagement to the mycologists of the 

 early part of the century that they confined themselves to describiag 

 as species different life-forms of the same plant, and only suspected 

 a possible genetic connexion between them ; for the time had not 

 arrived for an elaborate and patient investigation of their relation- 

 ship, only possible with the modern microscope. In distinguishing 

 the numerous forms which came under their observation, and 

 grouping them according to their morphological characters, they 



