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Minnesota Plant Diseases. 



Mushrooms, 



spore distribution, 

 sulphur fungus, 

 true saprophytes, 

 truffles, 



28 

 253 



35 

 148 



Muskmelons, downy mildew of 



(Figs. 168, 169, 170), 334 



wilt of, 341 



Mustard family, club root of, 345 

 damping-off of seedlings, 



108, 382 



downy mildew of, 331 



Pythium debaryanum, 45 



white rust of, 112, 330 



Mycelium, definition of, 7, 8 



development of, 18 



of food mold (Fig. i), 8 



of mushrooms, n 



physiology of, 17 



Mycetozoa (Fig. 100), 196, 197, 198 



Mycoplasm theory of rusts, 289 



Mycorrhiza of puff-balls, 186 



Mycosis, 73 



Naked barley smut, 300 



Nectria cinnabarina, 



271, 272, 322, 323 



Needle-cast of pines, 138 



Nettles, sedge rust of, 391 



Nidulariinere, 186 



Nitrates, formation by bacteria, 195 



Nitrifying bacteria, 195 



Nitrogen-fixing bacteria, 195 



Nodule bacteria, 195 

 Nozzle, for mist-like sprays 



(Fig. 114), 231 

 for spraying apparatus (Fig. 



in), 228 



for spraying plants in rows, 230 

 for spraying under sides of 



leaves (Fig. 112), 230 



Nuclear parasites, 66 



Nutrition of fungi, 10 

 Nutritive method, expressed in 



structure, 9 



Oak, Dsedalea on, 257 



dry rot of, 245 



false tinder fungus on, 250 



fatty Pholiota rot of (Fig. 



129), 263 



fungi on limbs, 139 



hairy pore-fungus, 259 



leaf blister of, 272 



Oak, 



leaf curl fungi on, 121 



partnership with fungus, 50 



partridge wood rot of, 242 



powdery mildew on, 125 



rust of milkweeds on, 280 



slime flux of, 271 



Stereum wood rot (Fig. 



117), 240 



sulphur fungus on (Fig. 



124), 252 



white-piped and yellow- 

 piped, 240 

 Oats, hot water treatment of, 157 

 loose smut of (Fig. 146), 



293, 294 



rust (Fig. 141), 285 



smut of, 156, 157 



smut of, an accomplished 



parasite (Fig. 27), 59 



smut of, formalin treatment, 



221, 223 



Oidium, 150 



chrysanthemi, 379, 380 



Oil, fish, in resin bordeaux, 218 



Oil in resin prevention of rot, 240 

 Oils in ergot, 129 



Old man's beard, rust of, 386 



Olpidium brassicae, 339, 340 



Onion, downy mildew of, 



112, 333,334 



smut of, 158, 320 



Oospora scabies (Fig. 164), 326 

 Orange leaf rust (see rust of 

 wheat). 



rust of raspberries, etc. (Fig. 



1 60), 316, 317 



Orchard diseases, losses by, 202 

 spraying, horizontal pump 



for (Fig. 108), 220 



trees, red knot on, 134 



trees, wounds and preven- 

 tion, 205 

 Orchards, diseases of, 347 

 Organisms causing disease, 189 

 Organs, destroyers of, 80 

 Ornamental plants, diseases of, 371 

 Oxalis, rust of corn, 292 

 Oyster fungus rot, 266 

 Palisade fungi (Fig. 81) 170 

 gall disease of blueberry, 385 

 wold, 171 



