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At the time only a few somewhat casual observations on this 
disease were made 
conidia were placed in the pore, which was dry, and care was 
taken to avoid injury. A fortnight later all the inoculated 
*“fruits”’ were diseased, whilst no other figs on this tree were 
d 
were formed. _On the other hand shoots which had been merely 
unded, or inoculated on unwounded surfaces, remained per- 
fectly healthy. In all these experiments no differences could 
Subsequently a large series of inoculation experiments with 
pure cultures of the fungus derived from Southampton and 
Growth in Pure Culture.—The fungus grows profusely on 
most media, its form approximating to that of Botrytis cinerea, 
Pers., although like all species of Botrytis, it shows very con- 
siderable variation in size of conidiophore and spore, and in the 
fi * This fungus is commonly found on dead shoots of Ficus carica, but as 
: e a often show old dead branches bearing Nectria cinnabarina, Fries., 
ries ubercularia was at first merely attributed to the conidial stage of this 
ie chee i examination it proved to be different, and also appeared to ) 
istinct from Tubercularia nigricans, Bull. (Lindau in “-Rabenhorsts 
IX, 
to Flora,” Bd. I » Abt 426) and Tubercularia at 
Boge in Rendic. Ace. Lincei Ro 5 2 sem. p. 105 (1888) ), both of 
(Ph va en recor pon hoots of fig tre id 
ytopath. Vol. I., No. I p. 12 (1911) ), has described a canker of trees 
86 to a fungus which h has name ‘abercularia Fici” and which is 
aden Tised by setae Scattered through the sporodochia. The present 
f nbercularia lacks sucl setae and kill: e shoo thout any canke 
re i Frequently the Tubercularia follows the Botrytis disease as r 
aprophyte, but inoculation experiments carried o pure cultures 0 
the fungus have shown i i 
s- \ that it can function as an ageres 
open gaining admittance to the shoot through the fruit scars. Further 
observations on this disease are being made. 
