252 Journal of the Department of Agriculture. 



FLAG SMUT OF WHEAT. 



By V. A. Pt^ttertll, M.A., Mycologist, Division of Botany, 

 Department of Agriculture. 



Flag smut in wheat, commonly known also as " Tulp brand " or 

 " Stoel brand " is a disease which has only lately been brought to the 



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notice of the Division of I'otany, but which has probably been present 

 in 8outh Africa for a najnber of years. It has been known in 

 Australia as a serious trouble since 1868, and has been recorded on 

 wheat in Japan, 1895, and on wiieat in India, 1906. 



