here in this 
AR 
13] 
Current Literature. . a03 
with the work which has been carried on during the year upon 
grain rust, leaf blight of peat and cherry, black rot of the grape, gun- 
shot disease and rust of almond and prune, peach yellows and rosette, 
pear blight, and other diseases of cultivated plants. The results are 
of great 
of giving 
economic value. Attention is called to the urgent necessity 
more attention to questions of physiology in connection with 
pathological investigations. 
AN AID T0 THE sTUDy of the plants of Queensland has been issued 
from the 
government press at Brisbane, for free distribution, prepared 
by F. M. Bailey, F. L. S., colonial botanist.1. It embraces some 
secount of the morphology and physiology of flowering plants, an ex- 
tended glossary of botanical terms, and the characters of seven of the 
Most important orders of Australian plants, i. e., Leguminosx, Myrta- 
cer, Rub 
together 
iaceze, Composite, Proteacez, Euphorbiacez, and Graminez, 
with the characters of all the tribes and of one genus and 
species under each order. 
Part SEVEN of the first volume of Contributions from the National 
erbarium 's devoted to a systematic and alphabetic index to new 
‘pecies of North American phanerogams and pteridophytes published 
in 1892, 
a 
Rica, wh 
Year. 
It is compiled by Miss Josephine A. Clark of the Herbarium 
. It is accompanied by a supplement to the index for 1891 
Several pages, including chiefly some plants from Costa 
ich were overlooked in the publication of the preceding 
AN INTERESTING pamphlet of thirty-seven pages, by Dr. W. J. Beal, 
recen 
tly been distributed. It contains (1) the report of Dr. Beal 
& : 
Professor of botany in the Michigan Agricultural College, for the 
Year endj 
n 
g June 30, 1892, (2) a chronological history of the botanical 
ae of the coll : 
Tue 
-Bued, 5a sig part of Husnot’s Muscologia Gallica has just been 
Rtintaing the part. The work evidently draws near itsclose, and 
ege, and (3) a full report of the exercises at the 
the corner stone of the new botanical laboratory. 
td 
PORT ON THE SISAL HEMP of Florida, and other fiber-produc- 
Department ohare prepared by Chas. R. Dodge, of the U. S. 
: teresting i 
i 
“st 
Shy 
A 
: 
of Agriculture. It is well illustrated and contains much i 
nformation, a, 
; Barey, F . ; 7 ict 
nA. 8vo, sek companion for the Queensland student of plant life. e 
he ‘a 
faq: okeee > 1893: 
Fiber Investiga Feport on the leaf fibers of the vanes 
io 
vernment Printer; 
CR. Rep. 10. 
tions, Dept. of Agriculture. 7 10 plates and 
“st. Washington; Gov't Printing othe.” on 
