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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
I am indebted to Miss C. R. Bennett, of the Library of the U. S. 
Department of Agriculture, for four titles which I should not have had 
but for her courtesy; to Mr. P. L. Windsor, Librarian of the University 
of Illinois, who secured for me very many original articles; and to Mrs. 
E. Young True for assistance in the preparation of the manuscript. 
Fries, E: 
*(1) 1823. Systema mycologicum, 2: 504. 
Sphaeria herpotricha listed. 
Mougeot, A. i 
(2) 1845. Champignons des Vosges, Hjpinal, p. 102. 
Marchand. 
(3) 1856. Sylloge—p. 251. 
Tulasne, L. and C. 
*(4) 1863. Selecta fungorum carpologia, 2: 255. Paris. 
Mentions Ophiobolus under.name Rhaphidophora herpo- 
tricha. i 
Commission on Diseases of Cereals 
(5) 1868. Report on diseases of cereals. Adelaide, S. Austral. 
Muecke, Carl 
(6) 1870. The take-all (Xenodochus cerealiwm). Prize essay, 
published under the authority of the Board of Agriculture 
of Victoria. 
Observed a fungus in the disease lesions. Estimated loss in 
South Australia at £6,000,000. 
Srecard. BavAy 
(7) 1875. Fungi Veniti novi vel critici. Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital. 
Vol. 7. 
(§) 1878. Sur l'état de la récolte du blé et sur la maladie du pieétin. 
Bul. des séances de la Soc. Centrale d’Agr. de France, 
38 : 368. 
¢ First adequate description of the disease; “la cause du mal 
soit généralement attribuée a l’humiditeé. 
Cugini 
(9) 1880. Supra una malattia del frumento recentmente composa 
nella Provincia di Bologna. Giorn. Agr. Ital. 14: No. 13. 
Noted the disease as serious near Bologna. 
