266 
Saccardo, P. A. 
*(10) 1883. Sylloge fungorum omnium hucusque cognitorum, 
2: 352. 
Says conidial form of Ophiobolus herpotrichus is a Hender- 
sonia. 
Brunaud 
(11) 1884. Description des Sphaeriacées des environs de Saintes, 
La Rochelle, p. 213. 
Smith, W. G. 
*(12) 1884. Diseases of field and garden crops, p. 69. ' 
Describes lesion at base of the stem and fungus present 
there. No spores known. 
Morini 
(18) 1886. Nuova Giorn. Bot. Ital. 18: 32. 
Noted Ophiobolus herpotrichus, but regards it as a sapro- 
phyte. 
Winter, G. 
*(14) 1887. Die Pilze Deutschlands, Oesterreichs und der Schweiz. 
Rabenhorst’s Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Oes- 
terreich und der Schweiz, 1 (Abth. 2): 523, 524. 
Pearson, A. N. \ 
*(15) 1888. Blight in wheat. Dept. Agr. Victoria, Bul. 1:38. 
Says there is a general consensus of opinion that this is 
a poverty disease, and that the fungus which causes take-all 
attacks mainly such crops as are insufficiently nourished. 
Prillieux and Delacroix 
*(16) 1890. La maladie du pied du blé causée par l’Ophiobolus 
graminis Sacc. Bul. Soc. Myc. de France, 6: 110. 
“Authors note brown mycelium in flecks; perithecia in 
winter; and mycelium in all browned tissues. : 
Cugini 
(17) 1890. .. Bol. Staz. Agr. Modena, 9: 46. 
McAlpine, D. 
(18) 1891. Dept. Agr. Victoria, Bul. 14. Cited by Mce- 
Alpine in (46). : 
Schribaux, E. 
*(19) 1892. Le piétin ou maladie du pied des céréales. Jour. 
d’Agr. Prat. 2: 317-320. 
Accepts Qphiobolus as the cause of the disease. 
Loverdo, J. 
*(20) 1892. Les maladies cryptogamiques des céréales, p. 231, 236. 
Reports Ophiobolus herpotrichus on Cynodon and Agrostis. 
Tepper, J. G. O. 
*(21) pile en and its remedies. Agr. Gaz. N. S. Wales, 
Says that “Take-all is nothing else than starvation of the 
crop.” 
