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 the hosts on vlhich. it occurs, especially \ntli tlrr.t of rye. The disease has 

 been reported from Horth and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia ai3.d Africa 

 In North America it has "been found in Vermont, Connecticut, New York, Michigan 

 Indiana, Tennessee, './isconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, V^oming, Montana, and 

 other states, •besides various places in Canada^ It has been located in parts 

 of South Airerica. In Grreat Britain it has been foxmd in England and Ireland. 



It has been reported froin Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Non^ay, Sweden and Finland. 



and 

 and from various parts of Germany, Austria, Hungary/ Prance, where it is conmon 



in the districts of the Mame and Cologne, In Switzerland it has been obser- 

 ved in ./ildesval, Meiringen and RUtti. In Italy, ergot has been reported from 

 Tornetti, Avellino and pavia. It-has been stated also that its occurrence is 

 common throughout the Balkan peninsula, but it has been reported only from 

 Scrvia and north and south Bulgaria. It is very common in European Russia . 

 throughout tho northern, eastern and middle parts, and in Caucasus n.nd Trans- 

 caucasus. It is very abundant in Siberia, where two of the most important 

 ergot trading centers are located - Tomsk and Omsk. It is reported also from 

 other parts of Asia, from Australia, from Auckland (Nev/ Zealand) and also from 

 Elsenbur-g, C?.pe Colony (Africa) . 



Ergot is as common in the elevated and m.ountainous regions as it is 

 in the plains. Anderson (5) found _C. laurmrea everyv/here in Montana, as coni- 

 ir£)n at 80G0 feet as at 3000 feet, the average altitude of Montana's plains. 

 Ktihn (145; found ergot in abundance on AA;ro,stis vulgaris and Nardus sstricta in 



i'jaris<3hen Gesenke" at an altitude of over 4000 feet, Voglino noted that the 

 attack of argot '^vas more severe in the mountainous part of Italy. Cockerel! 

 (43) found C,, Tjtirpurea as high as 8400 feet, but rather' locally distributed, 

 Frank (70; states that ergot in the mountains up to the upper limit of cereal 

 cultivation, Jins is here often as common as it is in the lov/er regions. 



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