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Baxter, E. J. 



The *'Fung-us Diseases of Sugar-cane in Bengal" forms Vol. 

 I. No. 3. of the Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture in 

 India, Botanical Series, July, 1906. The principal diseases dis- 

 cussed and ilhistrated by figures are: Red Rot (or Red Smut), 

 Colletotrichum falcatum ; Smut, Ustilago sacchari Rab. ; Diplodia 

 cacaoicola P. Henn ; Cytospora sacchari Butl. sp. nov. ; "Pine- 

 apple disease, Thielaviopsis ethaceticus Went ; Black Rot 

 Sphaeronaema adiposum Butler n. sp. ; Brown leaf-spot, 

 Cercospora longipes Butler n. sp. ; Ring-spot, Leptosphaeria 

 sacchari Br. & H. ; and sooty mould, Capnodium sp. 



Butler, E. J. 



The "Annual Report of the Cryptogamic Botanist for 1905" 

 is published in the first Annual Report of the Imperial Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture in India, pp. 71-88, 1906. This is a general 

 account of the work done, a large number of plant diseases hav- 

 ing been encountered. Some work had been done previously by 

 the mycologists. Doctors Cunningham and Barclay. Widely 

 distributed and serious fungus pests are mentioned, as 

 Phytophthora infestans, The common Rusts of wheat, smuts of 

 wheat, oats and sorghum, Exoascus deformans, Thielaviopsis 

 ethaceticus, etc. 



Butler, E. J. 



An important "Account of the Genus Pythium and some 

 Chytridiaceae" is given by Mr. Butler, as Vol. i., No. 5, Bo- 

 tanical Series, Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture 

 in India, February. 1907. In Part I the genus Pythium is fully 

 discussed and monographed, new species being P. indigoferae, 

 P. diacarpum, P. palmivoram, and P. rostratum. In Part II, 

 Observations on some Chytridiaceae the following new species 

 are described : Pleolpidium irregulare, PI. cuculus, PI. inflatum. 

 Pseudolpidium pithyii, Ps. gracile, and Nowakowskiella ramosa. 

 Ten full page plates illustrate the species. 



Burlingham, Gertrude Simmons. 



Pertinent "Suggestions for the study of the Lactariae" are 

 given by the author in the June No. of Torryea, 1907. After 

 stating the case she summarizes the points in a blank form for 

 guidance of the amateur or observer in recording the notes. It 

 is suggested that the most complete and satisfactory color chart 

 is the Repertoire de Couleurs, published by the French society 

 of "Chrvsanthemistes." 



