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The fungus — Moniliophthora roreri, also called monilia or frosty pod rot — soon spread around the country, and by 1983 Costa Rican exports of dry cacao beans had declined 96 percent.

“Monilia, you’ve come to stay,” he sang, “and all you bring is hungry belly/You say you no going away, ‘til you bring me down to poverty.”

The rot of Cherries, Pears, Apples, Plums, etc., in store may be due to several fungi, of which Botrytis, Monilia, Mucor, Penicillium, and Aspergillus are the chief.

Monilia, forming white or grey pustules on Apples, Roestelia and other Æcidia, forming yellow or orange pustules on leaves, etc.;

Infelix virgo tota bacchatur in urbe: Non styrace Idæo fragrantes picta capillos, Cognita non teneris pedibus Sicyonia servans, Non niveo retinens baccata monilia collo.”—v.