XVlll TABLK OF CONTENTS. 



Section II. — Special Account. pa(;e 



1. Lightdemanding weeds 31)9 



2. Half-shadebearers 403 



3. Shadebearing weeds 408 



4. Weeds of wet peaty soil 401) 



5. Lianes 410 



6. Parasitic phanerogams 412 



7. Weeds actiug as hosts to injuiious fungi 418 



8. Classification of weeds in order of iujuriousaess . ... 420 



CHAPTER ir. 

 rROTECTION AGAINST FUNGI. 



Section I.— General Account. 



1. Position of fungi in vegetable kingdom 421% 



2. Classification and importaqce 422 



3. Mode of life 423 



4. Distribution 427 



Section II. — Fungi attacking Conifkus. 



1. Ariibillarea III ell ea (Jioney hingiis) 429 



2. Fames anno^us 435 



3. Rhiziua inflata 437 



4. Trametes Pini 438 



5. Peridermuuii P'nii (cortlcuhi^ (Pine-blister) 441 



6. P. Strobi 443 



7. Melampsom Piniforqiia (Pine branch-twist) .... 444 



8. Melaiiijjsurella C'ai-yoj^Jii/llacearum (Silver-fir canker) . . . 448 



9. Xectria Cucurlntida 452 



10. DaHyxcyplM calycina (Larch-blister) ....... 454 



11. Cfe«a«;7mw -4&(>^M- (Pine-shoot fungus). 459 



12. Peatalozzla Hartig'd 460 



13. Septoria 2)arasitiva 460 



14. Botritis Douglami 461 



15. Perldermium Pini {acicola) ........ 461 



16. Aecidium abietiuuiit .......... 462 



17. A. colli lunare 462 



18. Chryin»nij,ra Ahtctis .......... 463 



19. Lujihoderinium I'iiuixtri (Pine ueedle-cast) ...... 465 



20. L. macrusj/orium 467 



21. L. nercisequium 468 



22. Spliaerella laricina 469 



23. Trichosphaeria imrasiiica ........ 470 



24. Ilerjiotrichia nigra .......... 172 



25. Aecidium strohilinuin . . . . . . . . .472 



