480 
E. F. Smith.— United States Department of Agriculture, Bull. 
No. 12, 1896. 
G. Massee.— Diseases of Cultivated Plants and Trees, p. 5 13, 
1910. 
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. Many of the fungi described and figured are well- 
known pests hire, such as Fames semitosius, Irpex ftavus, and Diplodia 
and there are accounts of the best methods of dealing with these pests. 
It is interesting to find Schizopfiyllum commune 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 wood-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. — Er>. 
BROWN’S SPECIFIC 
FOR 
AND 
DIARRHOEA. 
To be ha'd at the Singapore Dispensary and of Miss Brown, 
Grassdale, River Valley Road, Singapore. : : : : 
