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yellow flowers, some 6 to 15 inches in height, on a naked peduncle a foot 

 long. It has previously been described under the names of Seuhcrtia 

 crocea, Milla crocea, and Triteleia crocea. — G. S. S. 



Bug's injurious to oup Cultivated Plants. By 0. Lugger. 

 {U.S.A. Exp. Stn. Minn. Bull. 69; Dec. 1900).— A pamphlet of 259 

 pages, illustrated with sixteen plates and numerous woodcuts, giving a 

 short account of the Hemiptera generally, with descriptions of certain 

 genera in this order which are of little or no interest from an economic 

 point of view ; and then of the true bugs which injure oiu- plants, fol- 

 lowed by those in the sub-order Homoptera (Cicadas, Plant-hoppers, 

 Aphides, and Scale insects) and their natural enemies. Descriptions of 

 the various insects, their habits, and the best methods of destroying them, 

 are given. A valuable contribution to the literature on insect pests ; and 

 though most of the insects mentioned are not natives of Great Britain, 

 some are, and those that are not have their prototypes which attack our 

 plants, and which may be destroyed by the same means as the American 

 species. — G. S. S. 



Buitenzorg Botanic Gardens, Java. By D. G. Fairchild {Bot. 



Gaz. vol. xxxi. p. -128, No. 0). — A description of the gardens and houses 

 in connection with it, as well as notes on some of the plants. — G. H. 



Bulbophyllum grandiflorum, Blume. By Sir J. D. Hooker (Bot. 

 Mag. tab. 7787). — Nat. ord. Orchidece ; tribe Ejndendrece. Native of New 

 Guinea. Discovered by Zippel in 1828. Flowered at Kew 1900. It is 

 remarkable for the great size of the flower, being about 8 inches long. 

 The sepals are very broad, tesselated with alternate large pale brown 

 and yellow square spots. Petals are very minute, triangular. — G. H. 



Bulbous Plants in California. By Carl Purdy {Gard. p. 455 ; 

 22/6/1901). — Climatic condition of the country and systemsof culture form 

 an interesting article where bulbous plants are appreciated. — H. J. C. 



Cacao, Fungi attacking. By J. H. Hart {Jour. Imp. Dep. Agr, 

 W.I. vol. i. No. 4, p. 422). — The Cacao-tree has its special fungus disease. 

 Nectria Bainii, Massee ; it is also attacked by Phytophthora omnivora, De 

 Bary, a species closely allied to Plujtophthom ijifcstans — the potato disease. 

 The two are fully described in this paper, and an excellent plate of them 

 given. — W. W. 



Cacao in West Indies {Jour. Imp. Dep. Agr. W.I. vol. i. No. 2, 

 p. 152). — Dr. Morris, C.M.G., mentions that " the prosperous little island 

 of Grenada is dependent on Cacao and Spices," and whilst the sugar 

 industry of the West Indies has in the last twenty years decreased by 

 nearly £800,000, the export of Cacao has increased by nearly a million 

 and a quarter sterling. — W. W. 



Cactacese, Structural Studies on. By C. E. Preston {Bot. Gaz. 

 vol. xxxii. p. 35, No. 1). — The author describes the anatomy of south- 



