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WITH reference to Mr. David Paterson's interesting letter in NATURE for February 17 (p. 364), it may be noted that a copy of an etching from a painting by Berghem, in the Kew Museum, No. 2 (Case 115, No. 200), is drawn with smut of wheat (Ustilago tritici), and that, according to Dietel (Die Naturlichen pflanzenfamilien, Th. I. 1 Abth. p. 6), ladies in Japan are accustomed to use the dark olive-brown spores of Ustilago esculenta as a pigment for painting the eyebrows.
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WARD, H. Oat Smut as an Artist's Pigment. Nature 57, 389 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/057389b0
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