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and, being produced quickly and readily disseminated, easily infect 



_ plants. 



A second kind ol conidia are formed on the oldest portions of 



-<Mt in the tissues, two or three large <.dobose conidia heiniz 



^,! on the hyplue present in a Single cell of the cane. 



These internal conidia can only escaue when the cane in which they 



The fungus, under normal con- 



di<ease" ,-,,. . ,. nll( , (1 into 



A careful wufaA shows that the 



in the -round contain- much more mycelium than that 

 the in\<vlium in the mol is also um.iv mature, frequently 



the root was rott n md d< u. 1 th d inf . i , , ei t 1 l\ 



the idea tint' th. uV ,. , , g , ,( d /'/, pi m<, M ;i ,n , [ tin small 

 •'I a li'ig'' quantm o( mvelium, hut it was evident in 

 every « :a>.> that this had passed from the stock into the root. On the 

 other hand, everything points to the conclusion that the portions of cane 

 used for propagation already contain the mycelium of the fungus, 

 :ihll " ;i - K > K pi-'-nce m;.\ nor he indh-.ited e\t»rnalh. and that th" 

 mycelium present in the buried portion of the cane, favoured by dark- 

 ness and moisture, develops at an abnormal rate, thus assuming the 

 <'»-"-a<'ter of a dis,. :l so. ^hieh in It, intensity is t«i ugn to the fungus 

 when developing under normal conditions. Two additional species 



1 " i '' ) '- - ( -nves of the ( ies the nm , a sp< cies of , ho U > out /. tin < tin i 



IM in Java, called lio, 



■ESTIVE MBASV 



Mild be burnt 



