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Figure 297. The sooty mold fungus. Mu li enlarged. 1 Mycelium. 2 Conldia. 3 Pyc- 

 nidia with immature spores. 



Figure 299 Washing oranges to remove sooty mod i'angus which grows in the 

 so-called honeydew from the Black scale. 



Figure 300. 1 Male of Black scale. 2 Same enlarged. 3 Puparla of Hemispherical 

 scale. Same magnification as 2. (Opposite page.) 



