FUNGOID PESTS OF CULTIVATED PLANTS. 207 



the tree may continue to live for some years. It is by medium of the 

 spores that healthy trees are inoculated, and hence to prevent the diffusion 

 of spores all specimens of the polypore should be at once destroyed. 



Sacc. Syll. vi. 5165 ; Cooke, Hdbk. No. 768 ; Mass. PL Dis. p. 191, 

 fig. 44 ; Soiu. Fung. t. 345 ; Husscy, i. t. 29, 31 ; Mass. Fun. Fl. i. p. 243. 



Living Ash trees in this country have been attacked and killed by a 

 spha?riaceous fungus, Boscllinia ligniaria (Nitschke). Specimens were 

 exhibited by W. Carruthers at the Linnean Society, December 10, 1897. 



llass. PL Dis. p. 122 ; Sacc. Syll. i. No. 991 ; Grcville, Sc. Crypt. FL 

 pi. 82. 



Small Oak-leaf Anthbacnose. 



Gkeosporiitm umbrinellum (B. & Br.), PL XIX. fig. 16. 



This anthracnose has been found occasionally on Oak leaves in Britain, 

 whilst some persons think it is the same species as one which has 

 occurred in Belgium, France, and Germany, although the conidia are 

 twice as large. 



The spots are irregular and angular, minute, and of a brown colour, 

 upon which are seated the almost inconspicuous pustules, from which the 

 conidia are expelled when mature in pallid irregular tendrils. The 

 conidia themselves are oblong (10-15 /< long), with two nuclei, and at 

 first seated upon long and sometimes forked pedicels. 



Sacc. Syll. iii. 3731 ; Cooke, Hdbk. No. 1412 ; Berk. & Br. A.N.H. 

 No. 1141, t. 3, f. 5 ; Grevillea, xiv. 124, No. 61. 



There are a host of leaf-spots on Oak leaves, which have been referred 

 to fungi of different genera as the cause, but tbey do not appear to be of 

 sufficient importance as " pests " to require notice. 



Oak-leaf White Mould. 

 Microstroma album (Desm.), PL XX. fig. 17. 



This is a small white mould which attacks the under surface of Oak 

 leaves, appearing to the naked eye somewhat like hoar-frost. The very 

 short threads are developed in tufts, which form confluent patches. The 

 conidia are oblong (5-7 x Sfi), unequal-sided, containing one or two small 

 guttules ; the basal threads about three or four times as long as the conidia. 



We have observed it mostly upon the leaves of young seedling Oaks, 

 and in coppices. 



Known also in France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Moravia, and South 

 Africa. 



Sacc. Syll. iv. 17; Cooke, Hdbk. No. 1831. 



Oak-leaf Cubl. 

 Ascomyccs Quercus (Cooke). 



This, and one or two other species of Exoasci, attack Oak leave . 

 Jouni. B.H.S. xxix. 1905, p. 848. 



