By Charles H. Peck. Pp. 54. 4 plates. Professor Peck records the growth of the state herbarium during the year, and makes many notes upon plants, chiefly fungi. Many new species of fungi are described, and a new genus, Underwoodia, is named for Professor L. M. Underwood, of Syracuse University. A new oat disease is described, and the fungus producing it is christened Fusicladium destruens. Among flowering plants, a new variety of an umbelliferous plant is described : Slum cicuta-folium, var. brevifolium, characterized by lanceolate or linear-lanceolate leaflets which are an inch or less in length.

Some interesting experiments upon potato rot were made in Professor Peck's garden. It was found that Bordeaux mixture is a preventive and remedy for the disease when on the leaves. "If the foliage of the potato plant is kept whitened with the Bordeaux mixture, it can be kept free from the fungus." Deep planting was found to prevent the rot of the tuber, by preventing the spores from the leaves from penetrating into the soil. A trench was dug 12 inches deep, and the po. tatoes planted in the bottom of it and gradually covered until the trench was full. Very compact soil saved the tubers, also. Diseased tubers were also found, when planted, to give diseased plants.

Classification and Generic Synopsis of the Wild Grapes of North America. By T. V. Munson. Pp. 14.