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vinieron con esta denominacion. No queremos contradecir el 
aserto de tan respetable autoridad, pero tendremos más adelante 
ocasion de comprobar que la enfermedad llamada así es general- 
mente de otro origen" (p. 17). 
“ Coffee-leaf Miner," Cemiostoma coffeellum. An account of this 
will be found in the Kew Bulletin for 1894 (pp. 130-133). 
de aspecto semejante, pero debidas 4 la vegetacion de un hongo, 
mariposa nocturna, que en | 
Cemiostoma coffeellum, Stainton” (p. 17). 
This opinion is important as showing that at the date (1878) 
when it was written the injury done by the fungus was incon- 
siderable. 
What appears to be the same disease was the subject of a note 
in Nature by Dr. Ernst (July 29, 1880, p. 292). He says :— 
“ There appear on the leaves small spots of a lightish green colour, 
which in two or three days turn brownish.” Hence the name of 
* [ron stain.” : 
Dr. Cooke detected upon these patches a fungus of an entirely 
different kind, which he described in Grevillea (vol. xi., p. 11) as 
Stilbum flavidum. He further discussed the whole subject in 
the Jowrnal of the Linnean Society (Botany, vol xviii, pp. 
461-467). SR 
Spegazzini has recently suggested the name of Pistillaria 
Jlavida for the fungus on the assumption that it belongs to th 
Basidiomycetes. This view is not, however, supported by a 
microscopic examination of authentic specimens. 
Of late years the ravages of th gus have assumed more 
serious dimensions. It has proved very destructive in coffee 
plantations in Costa Rica, Venezuela, New Grenada, and Guatemala ; 
it is also said to have occurred in some of the West Indian Islands. 
prohibited countries” for the importation of seeds and plants. 
A lengthy correspondence has taken place with the Foreign 
- Office on the subject, of which the following is the most material 
portion :— 
MR. CONSUL-GENERAL JENNER TO FOREIGN OFFICE. 
My LORD, Guatemala, February 7, 1899. 
WITH reference to your Lordship’s despatch, pae 
commercial, of the 4th of November, I have the honour to aa ose 
herewith copy of a despatch from Mr. Consul Harrison, RER 
a short report by Mr. H. Pittier on the diseases which un 
different times appeared in the coffee plantations in Costa Rica. 
