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PROTECTION OF WOODLANDS. 



moval of trees attacked by the fungus appears advisable, not only 

 in order to be able to utilise the timber before decomposition has 

 proceeded too far, but also in order to prevent the spread of the 

 disease by the scattering of the spores produced in large quantities 

 in the sporophores, and easily wafted about by the wind. 



