A DISEASE OF THE GOOSEBERRY 19 
in the field are Lophocolea heterophylla and Jungermannia ventricosa, 
The former can be distinguished by its more branched stem ; the 
cosa is usually of a brighter green colour; leaves more transverse, 
especially towards the apex of the more concave, wit 
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appears to rarely fruit, and usually when growing on soil ,where 
the perigynia can penetrate. I have not found male flowers on the 
Ross-shire specimens. I may mention that Herr F. Stephani has 
seen a specimen of the Scottish plant. 
A DISEASE OF THE GOOSEBERRY.* 
By A. Lorrain Smits. 
In the early spring of 1902 I investigated some gooseberry 
bushes from Herefordshire that had been attacked by disease. Out 
of a ten-acre plantation of bushes, about two acres almost in the 
* Read before the meeting of the British Association at Belfast, ree icons 
