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the spreading of fungus attacks, as a rule. The enemy, 

 at such times, increases enormously by absorbing the sap 

 and destroying the cells and tissues of the host plant. 



Fungoid Enemies are true parasites things that live 

 upon other things. Some of them attack animal life in 

 their operations ; and to such an extent is this visible 

 through the microscope that it has become questionable 

 whether animals feed more upon vegetables than vegetable 

 life upon animals. Our concern, at the present stage, 

 is with vegetable parasites. Domestic animals in this 

 country, so far, have been wondrously exempt from 

 ailments of epidemic kind a fact due, in great measure, to 

 the very excellent system of stock inspection common to 

 all the colonies, and the departments of which work well 

 to each other, and to the benefit of the whole community. 



Kniikri, Growing from Section of Leaf of a Host Plant. 



A, upper side of leaf; B, lower side; C, developing seed heads of 

 fungus; D, spore or seed cups; E, seed cup springing from breathing 

 pore of plant ; F, developed seed head ; G, spores or seeds of fungi 

 located in breathing pore. 



Fungus growths may be divided into two easily 

 observed divisions: They are those which appear generally 



