41 8 SPECIAL PLANT PATHOLOGY 



Ash 



{Fraxinus sp.) 



Decay, or Brown-rot {Polyporus sulphureus (Bull.), Fr.). 

 Heart-rot {Fomes fraxinophilus (Pk,), Sacc). 



U. S. Dept. Agr. Bur. Plant Industry, Bull. 32 (1903). 



von Schrenk, H., Diseases of Deciduous Forest Trees, U. S. Bur. of Plant 

 Industry, Bull. 149 (1909). 

 Leaf-spot {Cercospora fraxinites, Ell. & Ev.; Cylindrosporium viridis, Ell. & Ev., and 



Septoria submaculata, Wint.). 

 Rust (yEcidium fraxini, Schw.). 



Rep., Conn. Exp. Sta., p. 304 (1903). 



Asparagus 

 (Asparagus offi-cinalis, L.) 

 Blight {Cercospora asparagi, Sacc). 



Heald & Wolf, Plant Diseases Survey in Texas (191 2). 

 Rust {Puccinia asparagi, DC). 



N. J. Agr. E.xp. Sta., Bull. 129 (1898). 



Calif. Bull. 165, pp. 1-7, 18-9S, 98, 99, figs. 32 (Jan., 1905). 



Aster, China 

 {Callistephus chinensis, Nees) 



Rust [Coleosporium solidaginis (Schw.), Thiim). 

 Wilt {Fusarium sp.). 



Mass. (Hatch) Agr. Exp. Sta., Bull. 79, p. 5 (1902). 

 Yellow (undetermined). 



Ibid., p. I r. 



Azalea 



Rust {Piicciniastrmn minimum (Schw.), Arth.). 

 Conn. Exp. Sta., Rep., p. 854 (1907-1908). 



Bamboo 



{Phyllostachys henonis, Mitf. and P. quilioi, Riv.) 



Smut (Ustilago Shiraiana, Henn.). 



Patterson, Flora W. and Charles, Vera K., The Occurrence of Bamboo Smut 

 in America. Phytopath. 6, pp. 351-356 (1916). 



Banana 



(Musa spp.) 



Trinidad Bud-rot {Bacillus miisce, Rorer.). 

 Phytopath. i, pp. 43-49 (191 1). 



