ENDOTHIA PARASITICA AND RELATED SPECIES. 57 
As Tachingko is 300 miles south of Changli, where 7. parasitica was 
first collected by Meyer, and Yatyeko is 500 miles west of Tachingko, 
it seems highly probable from the collections that E. parasitica is 
widely distributed in China, (fig. 5). 
Meyer, writing from Hangchow, J uly 1, 1915, refers as follows to 
the condition of the chestnuts in that locality : 
Well, I have a few interesting discoveries to report. First, there are many 
specimens of Castanea mollissima scattered at the bases and on the lower 
slopes of the hills around here, and these chestnuts are seriously attacked 
by the bark fungus, and in my estimation are going to succumb to it these 
coming years. The chinquapins (Castanea spp.), however, which are very 
abundant on the higher and more sterile hill slopes, seem to be immune; 
Ic. 5.—Outline map of China and Japan, showing the localities in which Endothia 
parasitica has been found, 
at least I did not see any evidences of damage or even of attacks. This 
brings another interesting point to my mind. I was told in Nanking that 
various missionaries at Kuling, the great summer resort in central China 
for missionaries, were cutting down their chestnuts, as the tops were all 
dying, due to borers working underneath the bark. 
Meyer has since stated to the writers that he believes the de- 
struction of the chestnut at Kuling is due to Endothia parasitica 
rather than to borers. 
In the writers’ earlier publication the following statement was 
made (76, p. 297): | 
The Chinese organism has thus been shown to be practically identical with 
the American in all its morphological and physiological characters and in 
the production of the typical chestnut blight and the pycnidial fructifications 
