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DISEASES OF CULTIVATED PLANTS 



of a brown, felt-like substance, used in the production of a 

 great variety of articles, as purses, chest-preservers, slippers, 

 bags, etc. A good collection of articles made from this 

 substance are on view in No. 2 Museum, Royal Botanic 

 Gardens, Kew. Tubeuf states that at one time the sporo- 

 phores of Fames fomentarius, the tinder fungus, were so 

 numerous and large that for their collection for manufacture 

 of caps, gloves, tinder, etc., a sum of one hundred gulden 





FlG. 114. Fames fomentarius. Fungus with a portion 

 cut out to show stratified pores, reduced. 



i os. od.) was paid annually for the material obtained 

 from Bischoffsrent forest in Bavaria. Ten years ago the same 

 brought in a revenue of twelve shillings, to-day it is free, 

 owing to our advance in knowledge as to the injurious effect 

 of fungus parasites, and the adoption of means for the pre- 

 vention of the same. 



Unfortunately preventive measures against this, as well as 

 other of the larger wound-fungi, are practically confined to 

 protecting injured surfaces by means of gas-tar. Fruiting 



