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even those that are most common, from all portions of the state. It is 

 desirable to state with each species the data indicated above, with partic- 

 ular reference to the habitat. In the case of parastic fungi, it is necessary 

 to iudicate the host, and to include sufficient quantity of the host plant, 

 that doubtful determinations may be verified. The director has been 

 promised the assistance of specialists in the study of material accumulated. 



LrtiEX M. Underwood, Director, 



Greencastle, Ind. 



The Bibliography called for by the Academy has been prepared and is 

 presented with this report as Appendix A. It has involved the actual 

 page to page examination of large files of journals and while doubtless in- 

 complete will when published serye as a basis for periodical additions. 



As far as p*seible, personal collections have been made; but with the 

 demands of a full laboratory upon the director there has been little time 

 for either extensive field work or opportunity to fully determine the ma- 

 terial collected. The season also was especially unfavorable from the loHg 

 drought that lasted from June to September. In addition to the spring 

 excursion to Vigo county I made a second trip to the same region in late 

 October. One trip was made to Lake Maxinkuckee and the tamarack 

 swamps in the vicinity of Kewanna, Fulton county. Another was made 

 to Brown county in May. Two trips were made to Eel River Falls in 

 Owen county, one in May and the other in October. Some collecting was 

 done in the vicinity of Crawfordsville but the greater amount has been 

 accomplished in the vicinity of Greencastle in Putnam county. While all 

 groups of cryptogams have been collected, special attention has been given 

 to those mentioned in the circular. Of the parasitic fungi the fullest col- 

 lections were made in the Erysipheae. Of these we have doubtless an 

 almost complete collection and a few comparisons with the flora of adjoin- 

 ing states may be to the point. In Illinois, the report by Burrill and 

 Earle* includes 27 species. Of these all but one have been found in In- 

 diana {Sphxrotheca pruinosa C. & P., on Rhus glabra). In Ohio the report of 

 Selby t includes 24 species. Of these all have been found in Indiana ex- 

 cept the unique Unciimla Columbiana on Scutellaria lateriflora. The entire 

 number found in Indiana is 33 which exceeds the Illinois list by 6 species 

 and the Ohio list by 9 species. Of other groups, the Uredinea? have been 

 most abundantly collected. So far, the Ustilaginete and Peronosporea; 

 have not been found abundant. 



-Burrill and Earle, Parasitic Fungi of Illinois. Part II. Bull. Illinois State Lab. Nat. 

 Hist. 2:387-432,1887. 

 t Selby. The Ohio Erysiphone. Bull. Ohio Agric. Exp. Sta. 1: ilS-'JJl. Ap. 1893. 



