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Iwnculatcd 

 plants, and 

 others injured 

 by violence, 

 took no difeafe. 

 Plants gathered 

 -which have the 

 #raw and the 

 grain not in the 

 fame (healthy or 

 difeafed) ftate. 



Other inftances 

 of found wheat 

 withruftyftrawj 

 and ihrivelled 

 wheat with 

 found ftraw. 



The ftrlvelled 

 corn was never 

 ii\r\y ripened. 



BLIGHT IW COJ.1I. 



fwne infefr, and at the fame time difcovered abundance of the 

 green locuft like infect on the ears; of which, fee the magnified 

 defign, Fig. % Plate IX. 



Some plants that I had lately innoculated were flill found: 

 other* that I had pinched and bruifed in the upper joint mewed 

 no alteration, but in all refpe&s refembled themoft healthy. > 



Aug 3rd, 1805, I went to a field of Mr. Oakley's, o 

 Wefton, where the wheat had a general good afpeft ; and 

 felccled and labelled, or 1 ears green yet full. 



No. 1. Sound ears with difeafed flraws. - .■'* 



No. 2. Compleatly fmutty ears with found draws in every 

 refpeCl. ■ 



No. 3. A fmutty arid a found ear from the fame rooL The 

 found ear had a fpeck of fungus. 



No. 4. Ears with crooked tops, others twitted by fpiders ; 

 others with crooked beards, fhort ftalks and long ; yet all oi 

 them full of grain, green and found. 



No. 5. Ears half fmutty, viz. on one fide all the way up. 



No. 6. Ears half flagged, (flagged means here thofe that 

 fhew only the flteleton of the ear and the crooked upper 

 flalk from early blight, all but the bare poles being blown 

 away) thefe ears were half flagged and half covered with 

 grains. 



No. 7. Bare ftaggs, but with quite fine found draw. 



LaflJy ; in Auguft and September, 1805, at Allcombe near 

 Minebead, j collected out of a field juft reaped, two bundles 

 which with all the others I flill keep as proofs of my after- 

 tions: One all of found wheat with all their upper flalk? 

 very much covered with the ruft of Sir Jofeph Bank's, defcrip- 

 tion, and the other all of black and thrivelled ears, yet all 

 found in the upper ftalk. 



Thefe latter mentioned flalks, I think, throw great light. on 

 my ultimate conjectures drawn from every observation through 

 the whole feafon; viz. they prefent ihnvelled, blighted. grainy 

 and exhibit fhort ears, beeaufe on examination they were, 

 evidently never fufficiently expofed to light and heat : for, aH 

 their ftraws though clean were green, not yellow as thofy 

 of ripe wheat ought to be, and their fmoaky miferable ap- 

 pearance (not having the lead fmell of the ftfhy fmutf) could 

 only arife from their humble fitualion below the other ear.-, 

 where air, fun, and light was deficient ; in fact, they never 

 ripened properly. The ftraw remained green, and the fan- 



probably 



