PLANT BACTERIA, VOL. 



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Black Spot of the Plum. 



(i ) Surface of a green plum (x lo), showing a wliite speck 'sternal in center of a \-ery small spot, due to Bud. prur.i. 



This is the earliest stage of the disease clearly ^■isibIe to naked eye. Each of the numerous white specks has 



a single stoma in its center. 

 (2) One of the tiny white specks more highly magnified so as to show the central stoma, x 200 I ^). 

 (3 and 4) Two sections through a normal stoma on the green fruit, showing empty suh-stomatic chamber; one 



passes through the center, x 200 (^). 

 (5) A group of small spots on a green Hale plum, each of the smaller ones showing clearl\- a stoma in its center. 



'x ro (?). 

 (6 and 7) Small spots (x 10) showing bacterial exudate. Spots further advanced than in fig. i. In fig. 6, bacteria 



were issuing from 30 or 40 stomata. but, as in fig. 7, the central drop is larger. The reason for this is apparent 



at once on cross-section (see plate 5). 



