Cryptogamic Botany and Plant Pathology. 



A New Anthracnose of the Privet. 



A few twigs of the privet (Lig-iistrum vulgare) received from 

 Penn Yan liaving the appearance of blight were comiimnicated to 

 me by Professor Bailey. Fixiiii tA\'elve to eighteen inches or mor<,' 

 of the tenninal poition of some of the twigs was dead, the point 

 where the dead portion joined the healthy presenting the depressed 

 line observable on twigs of pear and apple affected with the blight. 



The resemblance to blight, however, was only superficial and e^)n- 

 fiiied to twigs in the tinal stage of the disejise. Other twigs pi'e- 

 senting an apparently healthy tenninal jKrtion were found to be 

 distixsed at a jwint about twelve to eighteen inches from the end 

 wh<;«"e a depi'essed area of diseased tissue was oibserved, oblong in 

 outline, the longer diameter being parallel with the longitudinal 

 axis of the stem. A comparison of the different specimens showed 



