* Globulina and Monus. † Oscillatoria and Vibrio.
[58] "A treatise which should present a systematic arrangement of all the diseases of plants, giving in detail the exact history of each, and adding the means of preventing and curing them, would certainly be of the greatest utility to agriculture." —Essay on the Diseases of Plants, Count Philippo Ré, translated into Gardener's Chron.
[59] "Plenck published a treatise on Vegetable Pathology, in which he divided diseases into eight classes: 1. External injuries; 2. Flux of juices; 3. Debility; 4. Cachexies; 5. Putrefactions; 6. Excrescences; 7. Monstrosities; and 8. Sterility. And he concludes with an enumeration of the animals which injure plants."—Essay on the Diseases of Plants, Gardener's Chronicle.
[60] The Bunt. "This disease appears at the moment of the germination of the plant. The affected individuals are of a dark green, and the stem is discoloured. As the ears are issuing from the sheaths, their stalks are of a dark green, but very slender. When the ear has fully grown out, its dull, dirty colour, causes it to be immediately distinguished from the healthy ones, and it soon turns white."—Essay on the Diseases of Plants.
[61] Vidi understood.
[62] "At the close of the year 1665," says Dr. Hodges, "even women, before deemed barren, were said to prove prolific."
"After the cessation of the Black Plague, a greater fecundity in women was every where remarkable—a grand phenomenon, which from its occurrence after every destructive pestilence proves to conviction, if any occurrence can do so, the prevalence of a higher power in the direction of general organic life. Marriages were almost without exception prolific; and double and treble births were more frequent than at other times."—Hecker, p. 31.
[63] It is stated that on the decline of the Plague, 1665, those who returned early to London, or new comers, were certain to be attacked. In proof of this the 1st week of November, the deaths increased 400, and "physicians reported that above 3000 fell sick that week, mostly new comers."
See also Dr. Copland's Dict. Pract. Med. Epidemic and Endemic Diseases.
"The hardy mountaineer is a surer victim of paludal fever, whether he visits the low countries of the tropics, or the marshes of a more temperate climate, than the feebler native of those countries."—Dr. R. Williams on Morbid Poisons.