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History and geographical distribution of the disease 159 



Economic importance 159 



Symptoms • 1 60 



On the canes 1 60 



On petioles and pedicels 163 



On the leaves 163 



Etiology 164 



Morphology 164 



Nomenclature 166 



Life history 167 



The ascigerous stage 167 



The imperfect stage 169 



Pathological histology 170 



Cultural characters 172 



Inoculation experiments 174 



Inoculations with spores from the Gloeosporium stage 174 



Inoculations with spores from the ascigerous stage 175 



Cross-inoculations 177 



The effect of weather conditions 177 



Control .- 178 



Cultural methods 178 



Spraying 179 



Bibliography 182 



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