. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. aranceto the plants, which is due to the multitude of spores borne upon thetips of fine threads of the fungus, which aggregate at certain points andcause the spot. The threads from which the spores are produced areexceedingly small and grow through the substance of the stem, takingup nourishment and causing an enfeebled condition of the victim, which 6—BH 82 REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE. results in loss of the green color and the final rustiness of the sp
. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. aranceto the plants, which is due to the multitude of spores borne upon thetips of fine threads of the fungus, which aggregate at certain points andcause the spot. The threads from which the spores are produced areexceedingly small and grow through the substance of the stem, takingup nourishment and causing an enfeebled condition of the victim, which 6—BH 82 REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE. results in loss of the green color and the final rustiness of the spores are carried by the wind to other plants, where new diseasedspots are produced; but as the autumn advances a final form of sporesappears in the ruptures that is quite different in shape and color fromthe first ones produced through the summer. •There is another form of rust which the fungus assumes, not usuallyseen in the asparagus field, but which may be found in early springupon plants that are not subject to cutting. This is the cluster-cupstage, so named because the fungus produces minute cups from the. ^^>-<^—
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