RED MOULD OF WHEAT 333 



This disease is known as ' mal-di-gomma ' in Italy, and 

 ' foot-rot ' in Florida. 



PREVENTIVE MEANS. Remove the soil from the base 

 of the trunk, and cut away the diseased patches, paint- 

 ing the wounds with some fungicide. Good drainage is 

 essential. 



Briosi, Men. delta R. Acad. Lincei, 1878. 

 Webber and Swingle, U.S. Arneric. Dept. Agric., Bull. 

 No. 8 (1896). 



RED MOULD OF WHEAT 



(Fusarium culmorum, W. G. Sm.) 



This fungus attacks wheat, forming cream - coloured, 

 yellow, or orange subgelatinous expansions on the ear, 

 gluing the spikelets together, and arresting the growth of 

 the grain. The spores are larger than those of F. hetero- 

 sporum, fusiform, 3-5-septate, orange, soon breaking up at 

 the septa. 



Smith, Diseases of Field and Garden Crops, p. 208, figs. 



Fusarium solani, Sacc., is said to cause the rotting of 

 potato tubers, but the matter requires further investigation. 



Fusarium pannosum, Massee. This remarkable fungus 

 forms broadly effused, felty, gelatinous expansions of a 

 clear vermilion colour on the living trunk of Cotnus 

 macrophylla, Wall., in the Punjab. 



OLIVIA LEAF BLOTCH 



(Chaetostroma cliviae, Oud.) 



Yellow blotches of large size and varied form appear on 

 the leaves of Clivia nobilis, at first towards the margin, 



