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tain themselves saprophytically in the soil used rather than entirely 
due to difference in virulence. 
The data shown in figures 15 and 16 indicate in the first place 
rather more accidental variations in the results with Pythium than 
with Corticium (see figs. 1, 2, 10, and 11). The agreement between 
original and reisolated strains from the same original source is de- 
cidedly less good than in the case of Corticium (see experiments 71 
and 72, figs. 10 and 11). In general, there are only two strains of 
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Fig. 14. — Diagram showing variations in virulence as indicated by the living seedlings 
in pots of autoclaved soil inoculated with different strains of Pythium debaryanum. For 
experiments Nos. 31 and 66 to 72, inclusive, the surviving seedlings at the end of two 
or three weeks after germination are shown. For the other experiments damping-off 
was so heavy in the inoculated pots that the survivals did not give differential results 
for the different strains,, and the germinations are therefore shown. The reports are 
based for experiments Nos. 71 and 72 on 2 or 3 pots for each strain in each experiment, 
and for the other experiments on not less than 5 pots for each strain. In experiments 
Nos. 66, 67, and 68 the number of pots in each experiment for the strains whose 
reisolations were also used varied from 10 to 40 for each strain, the results of the 
separate 5-pot units being shown in figure 15. The strains indicated by the different 
symbols are as follows: From potato: ©=Strain 131, isolated in 1909, California. 
Furnished by Mrs. C. R. Tillotson. From sugar beet: 0=Strain 295 and its reisola- 
tions from pine. No. 295 was furnished by Dr. H. A. Edson as a reisolation of strain 
131, after having been passed by bim through two generations of sugar-beet seedlings. 
▲ =Strain 294, isolated in 1912. Furnished by Dr. Edson. A= Strain 296, isolated 
in 1912, Wisconsin. Furnished by Dr. Edson. X=Strain 297, originally from pine, 
Nebraska, 1911. Passed through two generations of sugar-beet seedlings by Dr. Edson. 
From pine seedlings : +=Strain 255, Kansas, 1913. Chlamydospores numerous ; oospores 
rare. H=Strain 258 and its reisolations, Kansas, 1913. A sparsely fruiting strain. 
□ =Strain 218 and its reisolation, Kansas, 1912. ©=Strain 347 and its reisolation, 
Washington, D. C, 1915. H = Strain 348 and its reisolation, Washington, D. C, 
1915. A=Strain 349, Washington, D. C. 1915. S=Strain 354, Minnesota, 1915. 
Pythium which can be said to have definitely shown difference in 
activity continuing through several years and on different species of 
pine. These are strains 295 and 258. As No. 258, the weak strain, 
has also been found abnormal in its fruiting tendencies, the evidence 
in these graphs does not indicate a decided difference in virulence 
between different typical strains of Pythium debaryanum-. The 
other strain, which seems rather uniformly weaker than No. 295, is 
No. 131, which according to Dr. Edson's records was originally the 
