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(2) A fungus growing in refrigerator waste pipes.2®% It is a 
common occurrence for the waste pipes to house refrigerators to 
become clogged with ropy masses of grayish slime. In the main, 
this slime consists of a fungus growth, but a part of it is dirt from 
the melting ice. To avoid this trouble the waste pipe should be 
washed out occasionally with hot water. 
(3) An apparatus for testing the germination of seeds has been 
devised at the Station.%© This apparatus, known as the Geneva 
Seed Tester, has been widely used by experiment stations and other 
institutions in which seed testing is carried on. It is not patented. 
(4) Another apparatus, ingeniously devised by the botanist, was 
one in which a constant high temperature could be maintained in 
a space large enough to hold one or two germinating pans for test- 
ing seeds.*6 
(5) The Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Reports’ contain notes on a 
fungus disease of the clover-leaf weevil, an insect destructive to 
the clover crop. It being thought that the fungus was new to 
science, it was fully described and illustrated and given the name 
Entomophthora phytonomt. It was predicted that the fungus would 
prove an effective check to the insect. 
Subsequent studies by Dr. Thaxter™® disclosed the fact that the 
fungus had been described some fifty years earlier under the name 
Entomophthora spherosperma and that it attacks several other in- 
sects besides the clover-leaf weevil. Thaxter transferred the fungus 
to the genus Empusa, which makes its name Empusa spherosperma 
(hres: )< Ghaxt: 
In spite of the fungus the clover-leaf weevil continues to be a 
destructive insect in New York clover fields. 
= Bile 200:9a-10f. 
5 Bot. Gag. 10:425 (188s). 
7 Rpt. 6:355 (1888). 
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8 The Entomophthoree of the United States. Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. 
Hist. Vol. 4, No. 6. 1888. 
