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APPEEHENSIONS. 



very alarming, and may appear wlie 



pected, especially in a climate where t 



vary as they do in ours 



The next parasitic 



st ex- 

 'seasons 



fungus is the one 

 which so materially 

 affects the flower of 

 the w^heat-plant, and 

 which has in many 

 places prevailed most 

 extensively this sum- 

 >. mer, 1846. It is much 

 g more minute than 

 2, those previously de- 

 ^ scribed. The name 

 S given to it by botan- 

 ic ists, is uredo segetmn. 

 o- Farmers call it by 

 f various appellatives, 



I as " smut, dust-brand, 



a. 



I bunt-ear, chimney- 



I sweeper ; " the last 

 • designation evidently 

 arising from its look- 

 ing exactly like a coat- 

 ing of soot adhering by 

 somegummysubstance 

 to the young ear. 



