Book excerpt: Excerpt from Investigations of the White-Pine Blister Rust To sum up 'briefly: Pinus cembra, the probable original pine host, ranges across northern Asia; and the fungus is reported from western) eastern, and central Asia, in some places where it may easily be endemic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.