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These include the three groups, Hymenomycetes, Gastromycetes, and 
Discomycetes. In the second of these are some peculiar Phalloids and 
Lycoperdaceae. Among the latter is Podaxis indica , which bears a sur¬ 
prising outward resemblance to Coprinus comatus , although, of course, 
the interior structure is widely different. There is also Xylopodium 
ocliroleucum , with a long stalk and a peridium marked with angular 
projections. 
Only one change seems to have been projmsed in nomenclature. This 
is the substitution of Platycheilus for Tryblidiopsis , preoccupied. A 
list of authorities cited and a full index are valuable portions of the 
book. The descriptions of the plates would have been more conven¬ 
ient for reference had the pages where each species is described been 
given.— Joseph F. James. 
Haberlandt, G. — Pine botanische Tropenreise: Indo-Malay is die vegeta- 
tionsbilder und Reiseskizzen. Pp. vii, 300, fig. 51. Leipzig, 1893. 
An account of a six months’ trip from Triest to Java via Bombay 
and Singapore, and return via Geylon and Egypt. Most of the time, 
November to February, was spent in the hot, rainy region of West 
Java, where the yearly rainfall is 4J meters, and the mean annual tem¬ 
perature 25° C., with a difference of only 1° between the mean of 
the warmest month, September, and that of the coldest, February. 
In spite of what would seem to be favorable conditions, parasitic fungi 
in West Java are comparatively rare. The author thinks this may be 
due to the fact that the spores do not find lodgment, the foliage on a 
great many plants being thick, hard, and smooth, so as to be washed 
clean by the daily rains and quickly dried. If the leaves were hairy, 
so as to hold the spores and retain moisture, the opportunities for 
attack would be better. In some of the thickets the growth from the 
interweaving of lianas is so dense that fallen branches and foliage do not 
reach the ground, but gather in masses, like thatch of roofs, and over and 
through these, anchoring here and there, clambers the black and brown 
liana-like mycelium of a fungus resembling Marasmins —fungus-lianas, 
the author calls them. 
During the nine days spent in Ceylon the following facts were 
gathered relative to the coffee rust ( Uemileia vastatrix). The extensive 
and beautiful coffee plantations so graphically described by Haeckel, 
have been almost entirely destroyed and the land is now devoted to 
other purposes, e. g., tea-growing. The first cofiee plantation was set 
out in 1825, and the business proved so remunerative that a vast extent 
of upland country was devoted to it, and coffee-growing and speculation 
became the rage. The leaf rust appeared in the seventies, and no rad¬ 
ical means were found to check its rapid spread. The influence of this 
disease was felt in every branch of business and a great many people 
were financially ruined. Many of the plantations can now be had for 
one-tenth their former value, and the total depreciation in real estate 
