LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 



EDITED BY A. D. E. ELMER, A. M 





Vol. VI. Manila, P. I., January 14, 1914. Art. 102 



THE LOWER FUNGI OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



A bibliographic list 

 chronologically arranged, and with localities and hosts 



by 



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C. F. Baker 



(College of Agriculture, Los Banoz, P. I.) 



The lower fungi of the Philippines are of extraordinary 

 interest, not only because they represent a flora largely- 

 unknown to science, and rich in new species and genera, 

 but because they present a whole new world of host relationships. 

 and in this connection represent the causal agents of many 

 economically important diseases of cultivated plants, numbers 

 of which, up to this time, have been unknown to either 

 mycology or plant pathology. 



On coming to the Islands a year ago, and of a neces- 

 sity giving some attention to the fungi of the farm and gardens 

 of the College of Agriculture, I was immediately faced with 

 the imperative need of having for reference a bibliographic 

 host list of the known fungi. The list completed in the 

 first few months of my stay here was surprisingly small, 

 including but a few hundred species. With the activities of 

 the past year now coming into print, however, the list has 

 grown by leaps and bounds to several times its former size. 



The work, just as it stands, is published at this time>, 

 in order that corrections and additions may be made as promptly 

 as possible, the bibliography of older species completed, and 

 the families and genera brought into more correct arrangement. 

 Naturally it will be impossible for the student of mycology 



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