BOTANICAL GAZETTE 
MARCH, 1893. *% 
On Monilia fructigena. 
JAMES ELLIS HUMPHREY. 
WITH PLATE VII. 
_ During the past fifteen years or more, attention has several 
times been directed, especially by American writers, to a 
parasitic fungus which causes great destruction of the fruits 
PRecertain cultivated Pocooe chiefly Pruxee and Pomee. 
Se Weare again delayed in issuing plates through 
accidents in engraving. Copies of plates I, II 
Yt, Vil will be issued as soon as possible.=: 
Epbrrors. e 
teed stg and, even at present, it does not appear to be 
full . ga wh Europe as a source of loss to the extent that is 
Aw Seta by its ravages in America. Here it was 
escribed by Peck,*® in 1881, and by Arthur,? in 1884. 
? Obsery. M 
- Mycol., 1: 1796, 
: — method. Fung. ts 693: 1801, 
s terr. landw. Wochenbl., 1875, n. 41, p. 484. 
Wiener Obst- u G , 
. . rten- 
; saei, Pomicoli, “ty icin ite ee 
T 4th Rept Nye antate Museum, p. 35. Seo also 43rd Rep't do. p. 6. 
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