320 Marshall Ward. — On a lily -disease. 
As time went on it seemed significant that the fungus 
which made its appearance, when the spotted parts were 
kept damp for a few days under a bell-jar, always pre- 
sented the same characters ; but as this and other modes 
of culture led rather to the conclusion that the fungus was 
saprophytic in nature, nothing further came of the matter at 
the time beyond the accumulation of a few more drawings 
and notes — the lilies were spotted, and as with many other 
cases of spotting on leaves, stems, etc., I could not explain 
the puzzle. At the end of May and beginning of June this 
year (1888) the same lilies began to show unmistakable signs 
of ill-health : the lower leaves shrivelled and died, and leaf 
after leaf in succession on the flowering shoots went off. By 
the middle of June the plants were looking very bad indeed, 
and I recognised the small orange and brown spots on the 
(still healthy) buds in much greater numbers than ever 
before, and the problem arose once more — how are the spots 
produced ? 
During the wet weather at the end of June many of the 
buds began to develop mouldy patches, and I soon found 
that such patches sometimes started from the orange spots 
already known, or from larger buff-coloured areas — the latter 
especially on the very damp leaves. By July 1, every plant 
in the bed had greyish mouldy patches on the buds, as shown 
in Fig. 1, and several of the buds were shrivelled and dead, 
and it was clear that the lilies were in for a severe epidemic 
disease. 
On July 10, I noted the following as the position of affairs. 
There were 258 flowering stems of Lilium ccmdidum in the 
garden, and more than 1200 flower-buds on them. Half of 
these buds were already ruined, and less than 10 per cent, were 
presentable : in fact the vast majority were in the condition 
exhibited in Fig. 1. Every leaf on the lower parts of the 
plants was decayed long before, and nearly all the small upper 
leaves and bracts were spotted and blotched like those in 
Fig. 1. 
By means of marked specimens, around the eight pedicels 
