elxii Journal of the Asiatic Soctety of Bengal. [NS., XIV, 
soils, and Fraxinus excelsior woods and Festuca grassland on 
limestone.! 
It is believed that this phenomenon will be found to be of 
widespread occurrence and of considerable economic import- 
6. Turning now to the question of diseases we will first 
shortly consider the case of the fungus 
Go, eae Pink Trametes Pini which causes great damage 
oy) 
_ (a) The Sporophores are invariably found on the sites te 
wounds, thus indicating that the fungus first 8 
as but by wind-carried spores which were # 
. alight on a wounded surface. Consequently the cont cont: 
é fungus by prohibiting all lopping was obviously . 
paratively simple matter.* ; Br 
3 1 aeenensnniennete = Oe: 
! Types of British Veqetati 1911. 
‘ | Vegetation, by A. G. Tansley,. 
? Ind. For. Records, V, 5, 1915. 
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