The more important references have been appended 

 under each disease, and six illustrated plates have been 

 prepared. 



The ground covered by the parts dealing with West 

 Indian parasitic fungi is much the same as that contained 

 in a paper recently contributed to the West Indian 

 Bulletin, published in Vol. X., No. 3, of that journal under 

 the author's name, and entitled " Fungi Causing Diseases of 

 Cultivated Plants in the West Indies." A word of 

 explanation, therefore, appears necessary with regard to 

 certain not inconsiderable differences between that paper 

 and this book. Owing to the loss of time incident to 

 transmitting the paper to England before its publication in 

 the West Indian Bulletin, the author was not referred to in 

 connexion with certain modifications and alterations which 

 were made by the Imperial Mycologist to the West Indian 

 Department of Agriculture ; the paper published in the 

 West Indian Bulletin, therefore, did not altogether express 

 the author's views on the fungus diseases of the West 

 Indies. 



The author is much indebted to the Director of the Royal 

 Botanic Gardens, Kew, for his kindness in permitting 

 the work to be done at the Jodrell Laboratory, and to 

 Mr. George Massee for the great kindness which he has 

 shown in directing the work. 



