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THE paragraph in NATURE, vol. xxviii. p. 281, regarding a “hitherto unknown” disease of potatoes near Stavanger, appears to be identical in every way with the disease which destroyed the “champion” potatoes in the West of Ireland in August, 1880, described and illustrated by me in the Gardener's Chronicle for August 28, 1880. The bodies described by Herr Anda, as about the size of a small black bean, are Sclerotia, or masses of highly condensed mycelium, and they have nothing to do with the potato fungus proper, Peronospora infestans.
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SMITH, W. Disease of Potatoes. Nature 28, 299 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028299b0
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