884 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
u read of an ascospore developing two antheridia, getting itself 
fertilized by both, and then somehow becoming an oo 
Acrostalagmus cinnabarinus. Boulanger is quite sure about these 
two forms, but he has also noted Stachylidium, and possibly a form 
of Amblyosporium, is part of the research has been amply 
We agree with M. Matruchot.--A. L 
Mr. G. F. Srrawson has issued a booklet on Standard Fungicides 
and Insecticides in Agriculture (London, Spottiswoode, price 1s. 6d.) 
i i ops. Heh 
destroy insects in the soil—a most useful discovery if it prove 
effec He adds notes on the destruction of charlock in corn 
crops. 
Dr. J. K. Satu, of the New York Botanical Garden, has issued 
a large and handsome volume dealing with the Flora of the South- 
eastern United States, which we hope to notice in an early issue. 
A norice of the Rev. W. R. Linton’s Flora of Derbyshire, to 
iar we relerred on p. 852, is unavoidably held over until our next 
number, 
“assisting” Sir Joseph Hooker in the preparation of that wor 
The descriptions in the October number are mostly from his pen. 
M. Barurézre et fils (Paris) have published (price 12 fr. 50) 
what is practically a reissue of M. A. Acloque’s Flore de France, 
with a new title-page, an additional preface, and 44 pages inter- 
calated, giving the distribution of ihe species in the north of 
France. The new title-p . 
h ys 
easily workable by its synoptical tables, and additionally 
useful by its numerous illustrations, 
