FUNGI. 4Il 
prevailing originated it without any connexion ex- 
isting between the places, but certain it is, that 
an immense profusion of the same fungus appeared 
almost simultaneously throughout the vineries in 
this country. Two years afterwards, the seeds 
borne across the Channel by winds reached 
France, where for a time their ravages were 
limited to the forcing-houses and trellised vines of 
Versailles, and several private establishments in 
the neighbourhood of Paris. But in 1851 it un- 
happily reached the open vineyards in the south 
and south-east of France, where it destroyed 
nearly the whole of the crop, rendering the grapes 
unfit for food or wine. With resistless speed it 
forced its way into the finest provinces of Spain, 
where so deplorably were the vineyards blighted 
by it, that in many places they were abandoned 
in despair. It crossed the Mediterranean to 
Algeria, extended its flight to the vine-clad slopes 
of Lebanon, ruined the currants of the Greek 
Islands and the raisins of Malaga, and destroyed 
so utterly the far-famed vintage of Madeira, that 
this wine for many years was numbered among 
the things that were. After raging for a number 
of years with similar if not increased violence, 
it subsided, like the potato-disease, to a certain 
extent,—whether owing to the remedies applied 
proving successful, or the conditions for its 
