384 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [May 
diseases. The English edition is brought down to date, by the addition of 
much new matter. 
The results of American research are prominent throughout the book, 
both in regard to the occurrence of special diseases and parasites, and also in 
regard to treatment for the same; yet the suggestions for use of fungicides 
and other preventive measures will seem meager and inadequate to American 
students. The translator has indicated the species found in Britain and 
North America, and has added many valuable notes. 
The work is perspicuously written, accurate, reasonably complete, and 
altogether the best work giving a systematic review of cryptogamic parasites 
and the diseases they induce in plants, yet published in the English language. 
—J.C.A. 
Report of the New York State Botanist. 
Ir has been thirty years since Mr. Charles H. Peck became State Botanist 
of New York. In this time twenty-eight annual reports have been printed. 
With exception of the last one all have been octavo in size, and have borne 
much similarity in appearance. 
About half of them have been accompanied with plates. The intricate 
official system of transmitting and publishing these reports has often delayed 
their appearance beyond all reasonable limits. Once the work was seriously 
checked by failure of the state to provide the necessary funds, and several of 
the reports have been printed in extremely small editions. In spite of the 
derelictions of those who receive and issue the reports, or rather of the sys- 
tem under which they are issued, the work of studying the state flora has 
gone steadily on, and a feeling of permanency and uniformity has become 
established. 
The recent receipt of the last report issued, that for 1894, brings an 
agreeable surprise. The size of page has been increased to a quarto (24 
3o™), the paper and typography are better, colored plates are used, and the 
work is attractively bound in cloth. It is a volume in keeping with the 
dignity of the state and with the importance of the subject, and ought to be 
the ene i Saber yernt cag 
; i t eports. The 
plants # new to the state siete: leven: ESS fungi new to science. Of 
: k from the state four new varieties are described, 
all fungi. The nea of the state have been collected and especially writ- 
ten up for this report by Dr. E.C. Howe. There are 133 species describ 
— with many. valuable notes. Dr. Howe is mentioned i in the first report made 
SPECK, Casares H—Annual Feport of the state botanist of the state of New 
y ase 241 pp. 44 col. 2 Albany, —_ 
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