34 FUNGOID DISEASES 



is used largely for fruit trees, and fuller details re- 

 garding- its preparation will be found in books 

 dealing with diseases of fruit trees. 



lo. Flowers of Sulpluir. — This is sometimes 

 dusted on the leaves to check mildew attack on 

 small areas. 



Note. — For further information on spray mixtures and spray- 

 ing machinery, see " New York Exp. Station Bulletin," No. 243 ; 

 Pickering, Gimmingham, and Barker, I.e. p. 26 ; also " Standard 

 Fungicides," by G. F. Strawson (Simpkin, Marshall & Co.). 



Classification of Fungi. — The Vegetable King- 

 dom (following Engler) is divided into twelve 

 divisions, the twelfth of which consists of seed- 

 bearing plants, and the tenth the true fungi. Per- 

 haps a more natural arrangement is that of 

 Professor Charles E. Bessey, who divides the 

 Vegetable Kingdom into fourteen Phyla. Of these 

 fourteen Phyla the last five represent different 

 groups of seed-bearing plants. Fungi are found 

 in two distinct Phyla, viz. : Siphonophycece, which 

 consists of two classes of green alg^e and one class 

 {Phy corny cetecs) of fungi, and CarpoinycetecB (the 

 Higher Fungi) containing three classes : Ascomy- 

 cetece (or AscosporecE), Basidiomycetece (or Basidio- 

 sporece), and Teliosporece. 



The Phy corny cetece have no direct relationship 

 with the Higher Fungi, but rather with the green 

 algae belonging to the other classes of the Phyltim 

 — Siphonophycece ; while the Higher Fungi have 



