378 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Aberedw, Radnor.—Campanula patula L. Near Boughrood, Radnor. 
Centaurea Scabiosa L. Rhayader Cwm, Festiniog, Merioneth.— 
simachia vulgaris L. Llangorse Mere, on.——Polygonum lapath- 
tfolium L. Maes-y-neuadd, Harlech, Merioneth.—Allium Scheno- 
prasum A the stones in t er t Boughrood, 
junceum and Festuca rubra vy. arenaria. Sand-hills, Barmouth, 
Merion — Phragmites — Beau. Harlech, Merioneth.— 
Polypodium caleareum. Aberedw Woods, Radnor. — Selaginella 
iA Rca Abundant on the aeiy of Festiniog, Merioneth.— 
argenteum. The two plants are very similar, both being allied to 
- pallidum, sibipaais of which they probably are. H. argenteum, 
however, is distinguished at a glance by its intensely glaucous 
bloom on the stem and under side of leaves. Thus Montgomery- 
shire may be added as possessing a locality for this species, without, 
however, invalidating the previously recorded habitat for the true 
H. lasiophyllum Koch, which occurs on both the hills in some 
plenty.—J. Cosmo Metvm. 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Diseases of Field and Garden Crops, chiefly such as are caused by 
Fungi. By Worrmneron G. Swira, F.L.S. London: 
Macmillan i Co. 1884, Pp. xxiv. 353. 
Unver the above title Mr. Smith has published, in a handy 
form, his lectures on the diseases of crops, delivered recently under 
the auspices of the Institute of Agriculture. While the main 
interest attaching to the book is perhaps agricultural and horti- 
cultural, the botanist will find much that is both new and interest- 
ing in its pages, since Mr. Smith has not confined himself in his 
estates to old well-worn facts and theories, but has presented us 
with new views and original subjects. A notewo Hig. feature of the 
book is the originality of the illustrations and Sie a kill with which 
of i 
(first exhibited in Sachs : Text. book’ ) have come to be associated 
in one’s mind with familiar mural iearunaits from the fre- 
quency of their occurrence in, and their appar arent indispensability to, 
every well-regulated botanical handboo 
Mr. Smith has made studies of such Taide as are of economic 
