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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 :60-63). 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 paper before the Ind. Acad. Sci. entitled 
“Some Indiana Mildews’’. He included 7 species of Erysiphaceae on 11 
hosts from Montgomery County. Most of these had previously been re- 
ported by Rose. Brannon’s paper was not published but a list of his col- 
lections was secured by Underwood and included in his catalog of 1898. 
In 1890, BE. M. Fisher read a paper before the Academy entitled “Para- 
sitie 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 by 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 :30-67), 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 (Proce. 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 number 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 FE. 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 by 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 (Proce. 1915: 429-475). The third one of these papers 
included all the species reported in the first two. In a second paper “Ured- 
inales of Indiana IL”, (Proce. 1917 :133-137), Jackson 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 paper “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 108 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 
