434 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Mr. Brown describes the genera heii ae Lepterica, Saat 
diagnosed in the clavis to the order issued last year, restores 
Kote 8 genus rio a ma and establishes a new anes -dine sain 
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Mr. J. M. Woon, of the Natal Botanic Gardens, is siiparids a 
list of Natal plants which will be published ge in the Transac- 
tions of the South African Philosophical Societ 
Tue Board of Agriculture issues from “iil to time leaflets 
dealing with any question of urgent importance to agriculturists. 
One of the most recent—Leaflet No. 174—describes the tree root- 
rot, which is caused by Armillaria mellea, one of our commonest 
toadstools, Like many other fungi, it is a Site parasite, and can 
only enter the tree by some cut or abrasion the bark. When - 
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tree is oaly a matter of time. The writer advises that ie toad- 
old r-like rhi 
ric an which creep through the soil or stack other roots or 
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Tue botanical survey of the country requires that every neigh- 
bourhood should have its list of plants. Mr. J. F. Rayner has just 
ut he does not claim 
anything like completen While e larger Sieh are well bls 
no ted, there is a facnatitable falling “Of | in the smaller forms—the 
inute Diseomycetes, ‘‘ fungi imperfecti,” and vada, The last 
picsentell by one Phragmidium and one Uredo: hence we foresee 
many additions to the New Forest list of fungi. 
E have received from Messrs. Cassell the first volume (price 
6s.) “ what is rightly termed an “entirely new edition revised 
throughout and enlarged” of Mr. Boulger's Familiar Trees, which 
in its original form obtained a wide circulation. The volume con- 
tains in colour and from photographs) 
~ Paer nineteen trees of Reid Logeapil families and characters, ree gn ng 
e Tamarisk—which is e familiar as a shru n as & 
tree, iss. wee ntiither—Clomatsi Vitalba—whic h can hardly siaiic the 
title. A seco feature in a popular took ia is presented by the 
illustrations from photographs of microscopic sections of woods and 
pine-needles; these, as well as a large number of the other pictures, 
