Minnesota Plant Diseases. 



41 I 



Fox tail grass, rust on, 287 



Fragile fern, rust of, 387 



Frogs, parasites on, 72 



Frost, cracks caused by, 47 



Fruit rots, imperfect fungi, 152 



Fruiting bodies of fungi, 22, 24 



Fruit-inhabiting parasites, 64 



Fruits, molds on, 114 



mold rots of, 122 



preserved, fermentation of, 36 



preserved, molds on, 122 



ripe rots or storage rots 



of. 44, 353 



soft rots of (Figs. 188, 189), 



353, 355, 356 



sphere fungi on, 138 



spraying of, 214 



yeasts in juices of, 119 



Fungi, 



algal, 103, 104 



allies of caterpillar, 133 



basidium-bearing, 153, 154, 155 

 bird's-nest, 186 



beetle, 139, 140 



black, 123 



breeding act in, 103 



carrion (Figs. 94,95), 187,188 

 caterpillar (Fig. 56), 130, 131, 132 

 club (Fig. 83), 172, 173, 174 



cup (Figs. 4, 10,, 14, 61 to 



65), 140, 141, 142 



damping-off, 108, 109 



dead stick and burnt wood, 139 

 definition of, 7 



descent from algffi, 8, 103 



distinction between groups, 103 

 dung (Fig. 60), 136, 137 



food of, 7 



gall, 105 



gall producing, 170, 171 



gill (see gill fungi), 

 honey dew, 125, 394 



imperfect (Fig. 70), 



117, 14?, 150, 151, 152 

 inhabiting dung, 38 



Jew's ear (see Jew's ear 



fungi), 

 kinds of, 103 



lichen-forming, 145, 146 



loose weft (Fig. 49), 121 



mold palisade, 171 



mycelium of, 7 



Fungi, 



nutrition and general char- 

 acters, 9 

 on mushrooms, 133 

 palisade (Fig. 81), 153, 154, 170 

 partnership with algae, 145 

 pore (see pore fungi), 

 sac, 117 

 saddle (Fig. 67), 146, 147, 148 

 sewer and drain pipe (Fig. 



43), 107, 108 



sphere, and allies, 137, 138 



sphere-throwing, 183, 184 



slime flux, 120 



smooth shelf (Fig. 82), 171 



smothering (Fig. 82), 172 



smothering, of seedlings, 243 

 spraying of, 211 



strangling (Figs. 57, 58), 132, 133 

 tar spots, 142 



tooth (Fig. 84), 174, 175 



trembling (see trembling 



fungi), 

 weeping (Fig. 78), 153, 154, 169 



Fungicides (see also sprays). 



action of, 211 



defined, 211 



effect on cattle, horses, etc., 213 

 effect on fungi, 213 



effect on host, 213 



effect on man, 213, 214 



Fungus, animals, 7 



-dwelling habit, 42 



fruiting bodies, 22 



galls, 171 



life methods, 35 



method of reproduction, 2i 



partnership with alga, 49 



root hairs of puff-balls, 186 



rots, club, 244 



shoe strings, 16 



starch, 15 



starch in ergot. 129 



Fusarium culmorum, 310 



lini (Figs. 156, 157, 158, 



159), 310 to 314 



Gall disease of blueberry, 385 



Gall fungi, 105 



Gall fungus of wood anemone, 



398, 399 

 Gall fungus of wild peanut (Fig. 



2ii), 398 



Gall-producing fungi, 170, 171 



