Bui. 89, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



Plate II. 



Fig. 1. 



'Shoe Strings" of Armillaria Mellea on the Dead 

 Roots of a Wind-Thrown White Oak. 



Fig. 2.— Armillaria Mellea under the Bark of Two Chestnut 

 Trees Which are Joined at the Ground. 



The fungus lias killed the tree in the foreground and has passed over to 

 the other tree, where it has killed the bark for a distance of 8 feet up- 

 ward and about one-third of the distance around the base of the tree. 



