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*(125) 1912 
Hiltner, L 
*(126) 1912 
Massee, G. 
. “Take all” in wheat. Agr. Gaz. N. S. Wales, 23 
(No. 11): 934-936. Abs. in E. S. R. 28: 646. 
Mycelium abundant in the leaf sheaths. Plant dies from 
below upwards. No spores. 
. Eine Voraussage! Im heurigen Jahr wird die 
sogenannte Fusskrankheit des Getreides in Starkerem 
Masse auftreten. Prak. Blatter f. Pflanzenbau und 
Pflanzenschutz Mtinchen, 10:37-45. Abs. in Holl- 
rung’s Jahresb. 15: 150. 
Claims that unripe seed or seed-wheat grown in an ab- 
normally dry season produced very susceptible plants, and 
that infection is seed-borne. 
*(127) 1912. White heads or take all of wheat and oats. Bul. 
Peglion, Vittoria 
*(128) 1912. 
Misc. Inform. Roy. Bot. Gard. Kew, 10: 435-439, fig. 
1; Jour. Bd. Agr. 19 (No. 12): 1020-1025, pl. 1. 1913. 
Abs. in E. S. R. 28: 646. 
Two or three inches of straw at base blackened as though 
charred. Roots woolly, owing to root hairs. Ophiobolus 
graminis is. readily recognized by the dark color of its myce- 
lium, which forms a thin felt on the stem and leaf sheaths. 
Says the disease is well known in Italy, France, Germany, 
Belgium, Australia, and the United States. In hanging 
drop the colored mycelium gives rise to a hyaline mycelium. 
Intorno al mal del piede del frumento. Casale. Stab. 
tip. ditta C. Cassone. 60 p. 
Stérmer, K., and Kleine, R. 
*(129) 1912. Uber das auswintern des Weizens und das auftreten 
Voges, E. 
*(130) 1912. 
der Fusskrankheit. Illus. Landw. Ztg. 32 (No. 38): 
360-361. Abs. in E. S. R. 28:52, and in Hollrung’s 
Jahresb. 15: 135, 153. 
Ophiobolus herpotrichus and Typhula graminum caused 
disease following severe cold; the latter noted heretofore 
only in Sweden and Denmark. 
Zur Fusskrankheit des Getreides. Deut. Landw. 
Presse, 39 (No. 71): 815, 816, fig. 4; No. 72: 823, $24, 
fig. 3. Abs. in E.,S. R. 28: 445. 
Concludes that fungi are not the primary cause of foot- 
rot, but that it is due to lowering of vitality by cold or 
drouth. 
