238 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
n CC ; 
1836). The Cowberry he calls V. punctatum Lamk. (1778), 
instead of V. Vitis-Idea UL. (1753) way of explanation he 
Ww —‘ It is impossible to keep up the Linnean name for this 
geographical, and descriptive ; and should pass into the limbo of 
synonymy.” The change, however, is of course not in accord- 
ance with the Vienna Rules. 
wo or three small slips may be mentioned. The transcript 
of Lightfoot’s MS. account of his botanical tour in Wales is not 
in pointing out that the ge name is 
trivial should therefore be written hederaceum. Small matters 
indication, ‘The author is somewhat doubtful of completing the 
cheme planned out,” will not be realized, for good work is not 
very common, and in any case loses very much of its value if left 
unfinished. W.PH 
Diseases of Cultivated Plants and Trees. By Guorae Massen. 
London: Duckworth & Co. p- xii, 602, 171 figs. 
7s. 6d net. 
THE volume before ug is intended to supersede the author’s 
previously published book on t Diseases, the issue of whic! 
is exhausted; and a fuller treatment of the subject was urgently 
