THE MORPHOLOGY AND PARASITISM OF 

 RHIZOCTONIA. 



F. J. F. SHAAV. H.sc. (Loud.), a.ii.c.s., f.i..s. 



The first reference to Rliizoctnnia was made by Duhaniel(9)*, 

 wlio, ill 1728, described a disease of saffron (Crocus sativus). He 

 considered the sclerotia to bo a special plant of which the hvphse 

 were the roots, and named the plant Tuberoides. In 1782 Fouge- 

 roux de Bondaroy(3) noted that asparagus which grew in the same 

 field as saffron might become infected with this disease. The first 

 attempt, however, to give the fungus a systematic position was made 

 by P. Bulliard(4) who referred it to the Truffles under the name of 

 Ti(hcr famsiticum. Shortly afterwards it was placed bv Persoon{21) 



COHRKiKNDUM. 



MEMOIRS OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 IN INDIA. 



Botanical Series, Vol. IV, No. &, page 103. 

 Substitute "Pamba-i-Hindi" for " Parbat-i-Hindi " in line 14 under Cotton No. 3. 



xui, 1)111 m view or rne criTicai work ot ivunn a tew years later it 



* The figures in brackets refer to tin- bibliujirajiliy at tbe end uf the p.iper. 



