48o 



E. F. Smith.— United States Department of Agriculture, Bull. 



No. T2, T896. 



G. Massee.— Diseases of Cultivated Plants and Trees, p. 513, 

 IQIO. 



T. Fetch.— Tropical Agriculturist, Vol. xxxiii, No. 6, Dec. 1909. 



A HANDBOOK OF FUNGUS DISEASE OF WEST 

 INDIAN PLANTS. 



We have received an excellent little handbook dealing with 

 the parasitic fungi of the West Indies by Mr. Bancroft which is most 

 compact and handy. IVlany of the fungi desciibed and figured are well- 

 known pesis hire, such as Fowes semitostus, Irpex flavus, and DipJodia 

 and there are accounts of the best methods of dealing with these pests. 

 It is interesting to find Schizophylluin comnnme recorded as a parasite 

 on sugar cane and mulberry trees. This little grey fan-shaped 

 fungus is familiar to us here as being one of the commonest destroyers 

 timber in buildings and wocd-yard. I have never yet, common as 

 it is, seen it attacking any live plant. It is much to be hoped that simi- 

 lar works will be published on our pestilential fungi here. The only 

 large work on parasitic fungi is that of Tubeuf, an invaluable work 

 but unfortunately for us almost confined to the fungi of temperate 

 climates. A good work on the parasitic fungi of the tropics is badly 

 wanted. Much has been written about them but it is scattered over 

 various periodicals and practically inaccessible to the ordinary 

 searcher after knowledge.— Ed. 



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