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which he made on picked fruit kepi in a moist chamber. Ho was unsuc- 

 cessful also in his attempts to infect the leaves, stems, and fruit of 

 cucumbers with this fungus (Edgerton, 1910:41). Shear and Wood 

 (1913:78) inoculated fruit of apple, young wax bean pods, young cotton 

 bolls, a mature pumpkin, a mature squash, green tomato fruits, and a 

 nearly mature watermelon, with the conidia of the bean-anthracnose fungus, 

 punctures being made in all except the bean pod. in which case the spores 

 were applied to the surface; but in no case, not even with the beans, was 

 infection obtained. It is possible that the beans inoculated were resistanl 

 to the strain of the pathogene employed. Kriiger (1913:294) inoculated 

 beans and cucumber fruits kept under the same bell jar, getting good 

 infection on the beans but none on the cucumber even when it was 

 injured, and he concludes from this thai the forms occurring on the two 

 plants are different. Inoculations which he made on apples, bananas, and 

 tomatoes were unsuccessful on the first two, although they resulted in 

 a whitened, sunken, spore-producing area aboul the punctures. 



Chester (1894) reports that many seedlings of cowpea (Vigna sinensis 

 Endl.) of the Conch variety died ;is a result of an attack of anthracnose 

 caused by Colletotrichum lindemuthianum, and an examination of the seed 

 showed that 9.5 per cent were diseased. McCarthy (1894:151) reports 

 that pods of cowpeas nearly full-grown were occasionally attacked by a 

 species of Gloeosporium. Butler (1918:262) reports an anthracnose on 

 cowpea in India, saying that in general its characters agree with that of 

 the bean but that experimental work is necessary before the two diseases 

 can be pronounced identical. He records also (page 267 of reference cited) 

 an anthracnose on val (Dolichos labia!) L.) and on kulthi (Z). biflorus L.), 

 and tentatively refers the causal pathogene to Glomerella lindemuthianum 

 (Sacc. & Magn.) Shear. 



Sydow (18SG) distributed what appear to be diseased pea pods (labeled 

 Yicia sativd) under the name Gloeosporium lindemuthianum. Mala and 

 Pacottet (1905) refer to CoUetotrichum lindemuthianum as the fungus 

 causing anthracnose of peas and beans, and Cooke (1906) reports it as 

 being the cause of a disease of peas as well as of French beans. Other 

 writers "nave not reported it on peas, and Edgerton (1910:41) could not 

 secure infection from inoculations made on garden peas even after the 

 wax was rubbed off the leaves. Fischer (1919:259) says that both Lemke 

 and Feldt report having observed plants of Vicia faba severely attacked 



