"IL 2¢ 09 
THE MULBERRY DISEASE CAUSED BY CORYNEUM 
MORI NOM. IN KASHMIR, WITH NOTES ON 
OTHER MULBERRY DISEASES. 
By Kk. J. BUTLER, ws, F.1s 
? 
Imperial Mycologist. 
Tue Twic Disrase or Mutperry. 
(Coryneum Mori Nomura.) 
Tue disease caused by this parasite is probably of long stand- 
ing in Kashmir. It definitely attracted notice for the first time 
in 1906, when there was a severe outbreak in the State mulberry 
nurseries, near Srinagar. Previously there is no record of losses 
in the mulberries from disease, but it is quite possible that earlier 
outbreaks would have escaped attention, and there is nothing to 
indicate that the disease is a new one. In the two years since 
1906, the damage has been slight in the nurseries ; probably the 
climatic conditions which favoured attack on the young trees have 
not since been repeated. Outside India the disease is only known 
in Japan, whence it was described for the first time, and the fungus 
named by Nomura™ in 1904. 
Nursery stock is not alone affected. It is fairly prevalent 
on full grown trees of all ages in different parts of the Valley, 
and must be responsible for a considerable reduction in the output 
of leaves. 
* Nomura, H., Intorno alla ruggine del Rengeso (Astragalus sinicus L.) e a due micro- 
miceti patogeni del Gelso (Atti Istit. Bot. Univ, Pavia, n. ser, Vol. IX, 1904, pp, 13-14), 
