. Fig. 40. — Unsprayed apple trees. After Scott and Rorer. The causal fungus seems to enter through wounds in the bark or roots. Later the characteristic sporophores are produced. See page 120. Clitocybose, root rot (Clitocybe parasitica Wilcox). — This root rot, very similar to that caused by Armillaria mellea, p. 173, was described by Wilcox in Oklahoma in 19011 as characterized chiefly by a copious exudation of gum from the crown of the diseased trees. The leaves 1 Wilcox, E. Mead, Okla. Agr. Exp. Sta. Bui. 49.

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