240 The Botanical Gazette. [May, 
destruction of the forests of the eastern counties by fires and stock 
and the importance of remedying the evil before it is too late; and 
also to the fact that the quality and value of the “naval store” products 
may be increased some $200,000 per year by the adoption of the 
French system of gathering the turpentine. 
Pror. L. M. UNDERWoop, in Bud/. Torr. Bot. Club (March), makes 
a plea for uniformity in the names of the larger plant groups, illustrat- 
sequence: sub-kingdom, class, order, family, genus, species. This 
does away with such terms as “branch,” “series,” “cohort,” which have 
crept in among phanerogams, and makes an “order” stand for a 
oup of related families. Professor Underwood would recognize 
Bie sub-kingdoms: Mycetozoa, T hallophyta, Archegoniata, and Sper- 
matophyta, the first two sub-kingdoms being as yet essentially tenta- 
names, Hepaticee and Musci, as meaningless. The general suggestion 
certainly has very much in its favor. 
EGETABLE PATHOLOGY is treated, in some of its phases, largely or 
exclusively in the following bulletins from the experiment stations: 
Potato scab by H. J. Wheeler, J. D. Towar and G. M. Tucker (R. L., 
no. 30 i 
tions are varied; Potato blight and scab by F. Wm. Rane (W. Va., no. 
38); Potato scab and its prevention, also Bacteriosis of rutabaga by L. 
H. Pammel (Iowa, no. 27) givi i 
(N. J., no. 108); Treatment of smut in wheat and potato scab by H. L. 
Bolley (N. D., no. 19), a condensed statement with directions for field 
orchards and potato fields by L. R. Jones (Vt., no. 44), embodies ex- 
ry) ‘ : 
os. 80 and 84), both py devoted to diseases, the latter especially 
treating of apple scab ( 
a colored plate. 
