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A NEW AIM'LR TKKE CANKER. 



Cultures in Coons" solution two months old showed numer- 

 ous black excrescences on these stromatic bodies which on 

 examination proved to be pycnidia. (Text hg. 5, Plate XXXa. ) 



I'cxt liK. 6. 



Inoculation Experiments. -On the 4th of March two 

 Northern Si)y Slocks were inoculated with mycelium from one ot 



