PLATE III. 
Sooty Mould of Orange and Lemon (Capnodium citricolum). 
Fig. 
1. Twigs, leaves, and fruit of lemon coated with Sooty Mould (nat. 
size). 
2. Orange leaf, showing the minute brick-red tubercles of ' Microcera 
coccophila parasitic upon and destroying the Scale Insects. The 
“ honey-dew ” secreted by these insects serves to nourish the “ Sooty 
Mould ” fungus (nat. size). 
