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the fungus known as Corticium laetum, Karsten. It 

 gains entrance to the plant through twigs which have 

 been killed by insects and spreads to the living parts. 

 It is characterised by a wilting of the leaves, accom- 

 panied or preceded by the bright-coloured fruiting layer. 

 It is reported from the southern part of the United 



FIG. 59. Limb blight of fig, Corticium laetum. (Photo by C. W. Edgerton.) 



States, and should be treated in the same manner as the 

 canker. 



Fruit Rot. An anthracnose rot (Fig. 60), occurring 

 throughout the southern part of the United States, is 

 caused by an organism which Stevens and Hall have 

 described under the name of Colletotrichum carica, but 

 which Edgerton believes to be due to Glomerella 



