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The first published record of fungi collected or observed in Montgomery- 

 county is a short paper, "Mildews of Indiana", by J. N. Rose in the Botan- 

 ical Gazette for 1886 (Bot. Gaz. 11 :60-G3). He lists and makes notes on 12 

 species of Erysiphaceae on 30 different hosts which he collected about 

 Crawfordsville during the previous season and deposited in the herbarium 

 of Wabash College. 



In 1889, M. A. Brannon read a pajier )>efore the Ind. Acad. Sci. entitled 

 "Some Indiana Mildews". He included 7 specii's of Erysiphaceae on 11 

 hosts from Montgomery County. :M(tst of these had previously been re- 

 ported by Rose. Brannon's paper was not pultlished but a list of his col- 

 lections was secured by Underwood and included in his catalog of 189.3. 



In 1890, E. M. Fisher read a paper before the Academy entitled "Para- 

 sitic Fungi of Indiana"", based on collections he made for the Division of 

 Vegetable Pathology, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. The specimens were de- 

 posited in the herbarium of the Department of Agriculture. The paper was 

 never published but his collections were listed l)y Underwood. He collected 

 rather extensively in Montgomery County as indicated in our list below. 



In 1893 the Indiana Academy of Science began a biological survey of the 

 state. L. M. Underwood, at that time professor of botany at DePauw 

 University, was appointed director for the division of botany on the sur- 

 vey. In his first report (Proc. 1893 :30-()7). he published "A List of Cryp- 

 togams at Present Known to Inhabit the State of Indiana". This list was 

 supplemented by another in 1894 (Proc. 1894 : 147-154) and by a third short 

 one in 1896 (Proc. 1896:71-72). The name of county and collector is in- 

 dicated for each species of fungus and host. He included a total of 160 

 species of fungi on 268 hosts for Montgomery. These figures cannot be re- 

 garded as exactly accurate because a numl)er of his species, especially in 

 the rusts, have been shown since that time to be identical with others in 

 his list. Outside the collections by Brannon and Fisher, nearly all the 

 species which he listed from Montgomery were collected by E. W. Olive 

 who was at that time a student in Wabash College. In 1894, M. B. 

 Thomas, professor of botany at Wabash College, stated at the meeting of 

 the Academy (Proc. 1894:65) that the list of parasitic fungi from the 

 vicinity of Crawfordsville had been increased l)y Olive until there were 

 now 175 species and 250 hosts. 



In 1898 J. C. Arthur read before the Academy a list of the rusts of Indi- 

 ana. He presented another one in 1903. A more complete list was presented 

 by Jackson in 1915 (Proc. 1915: 429-475). The tiiinl one of these papers 

 included all the species reported in the first two. In a second paper "Ured- 

 inales of Indiana II", (Proc. 1917:133-137), .lacksoii added 4 more species 

 from as many hosts from Montgomery making a total of 58 species of 

 rusts on 98 hosts from that county. In another pai)er "The Ustilaginales 

 of Indiana"', presented at the same time (Proc. 1917:119-132), Jackson lists 

 four smuts from Montgomery occurring on as many hosts. 



Since Underwood had reported in his list 103 parasites, outside the 

 smuts and rusts, on 171 hosts we get the grand total for the county of 165 

 parasites on 273 hosts. In the present paper this number has been raised 



