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was typical of former growths with cream-yellow and pink 
colouration, numerous microconidia, and macroconidia measuring 
when three-septate up to 30u, and when five-septate up to 52u 
long. Thus further evidence of the identity of the Uganda 
fungus with Fusarium udum was obtained, and it remains to add 
to the original diagnosis that the Fusarium has been found in 
South Africa on carnations and in Uganda on carnations, Nigella, 
Delphinium, Cosmos and cashew nut seedlings. Its occurrence 
on silky oak, rose apple and loquat seedlings and on Antirrhinum 
plants in association with Heterodera radicicola, Greef, has also 
been discussed. In those cases, the fungus may be said to be a 
facultative rather than an obligate parasite, and their study 
throws a little light on the conditions under which the Fusarium 
may pass from a purely saprophytic condition in the soil to one 
of parasitism, or on the conditions under which the original 
strain may give rise to new types under natural conditions. There 
is need for a closer study of the variations in the morphology and 
pathogenicity of the various strains of the Fusarium and for the 
pursuit of its higher forms, and it is hoped that further work 
will succeed in clearing up several points that are at present 
obscure. 
XLIII.—A CONTRIBUTION TO THE FLORA OF 
THE NEARER EAST. 
W. B. TuRRILL. 
Several small but interesting collections of plants from various 
parts of the Nearer East have been received recently at Kew. 
These have now been worked out and the specimens added to 
the Kew Herbarium. Since some of the plants have been col- 
lected in areas whose flora is almost unknown, it has been con- 
sidered advisable to publish a list of species and localities, as a 
contribution to our knowledge of plant distribution in the area 
of the Nearer East—a convenient phrase which has been 
borrowed from Dr. Hogarth. The following particulars regarding 
the collections mentioned in this paper may be given here in 
tabular form :— 
Lt. Col. F. R. Durham, 34 Gallipoli, Macedonia, 
O.B.E., M.C.* Asia Minor, Palestine. 
Major G. W. Harris} 31 Greek Macedonia. 
Mr. H. G. Butcher} 11 Island of Lemnos. 
Miscellaneous 5 Greek Macedonia. 
* Director of Works, Imperial War Graves Commission. _ 
jor G. W. Harris for nearly 500 specimens of 
Macedonian plants, most of which have been quoted in the Kew Bull., 
1918, Nos. 8-9. Major Harris went through the Salonika campaign as an 
officer in the R.A.M.C. : 
Mr. H. G. Butcher was formerly a student-gardener at Kew. During 
the war he served in the Navy, and whilst on patrol work in the Aigean Sea 
he visited Lemnos and brought away with him the plants mentioned in 
this list as collected by him. 
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