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which occurred in Cuban tobacco grown in Cuba. Paotini® 
describes and gives an excellent illustration of fasciation occurring 
in the variety Samsum (N. Tabacum), grown in Asia Minor. This 
is evidently another instance of extreme fasciation similar to 
that which appeared in the Cuban variety in Cuba. SCARPUZZA’ 
described and illustrated fasciation similar to that observed by 
PAOLINI. 
Fic. 6.—Catacorolla in N. Tabacum produced by mosaic disease; in most instances 
development has been suppressed in these blossoms; ascidia shown in third and fifth 
blossoms (upper row); last blossom in lower row shows tendency toward fasciation; 
2 blossoms, one nearly normal, another abnormal, are inclosed in common calyx.— 
) 
During the writer’s investigations of the mosaic disease of 
tobacco, catacorolla has been one of the most common abnormalities 
produced in the blossoms of N. Tabacum in connection with the 
AOLINI, V., Caso di Concrescenza in una Pianta di Samsum. Boll. Tecnico 
del R. Instituto Scerhuertale in Scafati (Salerno). 6:no. 4. 1907. 
ARPUZzA, A., Di Alcune Anomalie Morfologiche su Piante di Aya -eeeseate 
Boll, prea del R. Instituto Sperimentale in Scafati (Salerno), anno VI, no 
July-August, 1907. 
