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  May 
  29, 
  a 
  lot 
  of 
  bugcs 
  received 
  from 
  Pleasant 
  Hill, 
  Pike 
  county, 
  

   'was 
  placed 
  on 
  damp 
  earth 
  with 
  wheat 
  for 
  food, 
  a 
  great 
  part 
  of 
  them, 
  

   however, 
  being 
  dead 
  on 
  arrival. 
  The 
  next 
  day. 
  May 
  30, 
  many 
  of 
  

   them 
  were 
  covered 
  with 
  a 
  dense 
  growth 
  of 
  Sporofricliiini 
  globnllf- 
  

   eriirn. 
  They 
  were 
  returned 
  to 
  the 
  sender 
  the 
  same 
  day. 
  

  

  May 
  31, 
  a 
  lot 
  received 
  from 
  Christian 
  county 
  and 
  placed 
  on 
  damp 
  

   «arth. 
  Seems 
  not 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  examined 
  until 
  June 
  3. 
  when 
  many 
  

   were 
  found 
  completely 
  enveloped 
  in 
  a 
  growth 
  of 
  Sporotrichum. 
  

  

  From 
  June 
  7 
  to 
  June 
  15, 
  six 
  lots 
  were 
  thus 
  tested, 
  received 
  from 
  

   Montgomery, 
  Shelby, 
  Greene, 
  Macoupin, 
  Randolph, 
  and 
  Clinton 
  

   ooanties, 
  all 
  south 
  of 
  the 
  center 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  and 
  well 
  distributed 
  

   across 
  it 
  from 
  east 
  to 
  west. 
  In 
  four 
  lots, 
  from 
  Greene, 
  Macoupin, 
  

   Clinton, 
  and 
  Shelby 
  counties 
  respectively, 
  the 
  fungus 
  appeared 
  on 
  

   the 
  second 
  day 
  after 
  their 
  receipt; 
  and 
  in 
  one 
  from 
  Randolph 
  county 
  

   on 
  the 
  first 
  day. 
  In 
  all 
  these 
  cases 
  the 
  bugs 
  were 
  dead 
  when 
  they 
  

   arrived. 
  The 
  remaining 
  lot 
  was 
  not 
  examined 
  for 
  six 
  days 
  after 
  be- 
  

   ing 
  enclosed, 
  at 
  which 
  time 
  the 
  interior 
  of 
  the 
  box 
  containing 
  them 
  

   was 
  thickly 
  covered 
  with 
  dead, 
  about 
  half 
  of 
  which 
  were 
  imbedded 
  in 
  

   the 
  white, 
  fruiting 
  fungus. 
  

  

  On 
  the 
  17th 
  of 
  June 
  seven 
  lots, 
  received 
  from 
  six 
  different 
  coun- 
  

   ties, 
  were 
  tested 
  by 
  the 
  fruit-jar 
  method. 
  Two 
  of 
  these 
  lots 
  — 
  from 
  

   Moultrie 
  and 
  FrankUn 
  counties 
  respectively 
  — 
  showed 
  the 
  presence 
  of 
  

   white 
  muscardine 
  within 
  tw^o 
  days; 
  a 
  third, 
  from 
  Moultrie 
  county, 
  

   within 
  three; 
  and 
  two, 
  from 
  Wayne 
  and 
  Jackson 
  counties, 
  within 
  

   four 
  days 
  after 
  receipt. 
  A 
  lot 
  from 
  Macon 
  county 
  and 
  another 
  from 
  

   DuPage 
  in 
  Northern 
  Illinois 
  gave 
  no 
  sign 
  of 
  muscardine 
  after 
  ten 
  

   days 
  or 
  more. 
  Nine 
  lots 
  were 
  tested 
  on 
  the 
  following 
  day 
  from 
  as 
  

   many 
  different 
  counties, 
  of 
  which 
  Saline, 
  in 
  Southern 
  Illinois, 
  was 
  

   the 
  farthest 
  south; 
  Edgar, 
  on 
  the 
  Indiana 
  boundary, 
  the 
  farthest 
  

   east; 
  Calhoun, 
  at 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  the 
  Illinois 
  River, 
  the 
  farthest 
  west; 
  

   and 
  Warren 
  the 
  farthest 
  north. 
  In 
  the 
  Edgar-county 
  lot 
  one 
  bug 
  

   showed 
  the 
  muscardine 
  fungus 
  on 
  the 
  following 
  day; 
  in 
  that 
  from 
  

   Cumberland 
  county, 
  two 
  specimens 
  exhibited 
  it 
  within 
  twotlays; 
  and 
  

   in 
  that 
  from 
  Macon 
  county 
  it 
  appeared 
  within 
  three. 
  Fungus-covered 
  

   bugs 
  were 
  abundant 
  in 
  the 
  Warren 
  county 
  lot 
  six 
  days 
  after 
  receipt, 
  

   and 
  a 
  single 
  one 
  was 
  seen 
  in 
  the 
  Saline 
  county 
  lot 
  at 
  the 
  same 
  time. 
  

   Four 
  of 
  these 
  nine 
  collections 
  showed 
  no 
  Sporotrichum 
  within 
  from 
  

   six 
  to 
  ten 
  days 
  after 
  receipt. 
  

  

  Results 
  continued 
  about 
  as 
  above 
  to 
  June 
  27, 
  as 
  shown 
  by 
  obser- 
  

   vations 
  made 
  on 
  twenty-eight 
  lots 
  received 
  between 
  June 
  19 
  and 
  

   that 
  date. 
  Of 
  these 
  but 
  nine 
  failed 
  to 
  develop 
  Sporotrichum 
  at 
  any 
  

   time. 
  In 
  two 
  cases 
  this 
  fungus 
  appeared 
  within 
  a 
  day; 
  in 
  five, 
  within 
  

   two 
  days; 
  and 
  in 
  seven, 
  within 
  three, 
  the 
  intervals 
  in 
  the 
  remaining 
  

   cases 
  ranging 
  from 
  four 
  to 
  nine 
  days. 
  During 
  the 
  three 
  remaining 
  

   days 
  of 
  June, 
  however, 
  ten 
  lots 
  out 
  of 
  sixteen 
  received 
  yielded 
  no 
  

   muscardine, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  remaining 
  six 
  only 
  two 
  exhibited 
  it 
  within 
  

   two 
  days. 
  Ten 
  lots 
  tested 
  from 
  July 
  1 
  to 
  13 
  showed 
  the 
  muscardine 
  

   in 
  all 
  but 
  two. 
  Four 
  of 
  these 
  came 
  from 
  extreme 
  Northern 
  Illinois 
  

   —Will, 
  DuPage 
  and 
  McHenry 
  counties. 
  In 
  the 
  DuPage 
  county 
  lot 
  

  

  