baniana

Updated: July 20, 2025

It is a well known fact that vegetable parasites may attack animals; the silk worm disease produced by the Botrytis baniana, being an example. It is stated that the same vegetable parasites which produce plant diseases, when transmitted to the animal body produce special affections, the form and appearance of the germs being altered by their environments.

Various - Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883