LIST OF PARASITIC BACTERIA AND FUNGI OCCURRING 
IN TEXAS. 
FREDERICK DEFOREST HEALD AND FREDERICK ADOLPH WOLF. 
THE PARASITIC FUNGI OF TEXAS. 
1. Historic Introduction . 
The literature on Texas Botany shows that the great majority 
of workers busied themselves with the collection and study of the 
flowering plants (see ‘ ‘ Bibliography of Texas Botany/’ in Rep. Mo. 
Bot. Garden, 18:201-206. 1907). Of 88 titles mentioned in the 
above Bibliography, only three are concerned with fungi. 
Some of the earlier collectors, while studying the phanerogamic 
flora, picked up a few specimens of fungi. These collections were 
recorded in 1878, in the first attempted report on “The Fungi of 
Texas,” by M. C. Cooke (8). This list included 149 species, a con- 
siderable number of them being new. They are credited to the fol- 
lowing collectors: 
Ravenel 78 species 
Wright . 55 “ 
Lindheimer 8 “ 
Drummond . 3 “ 
Pope 2 
Bigelow . 1 “ 
Total . 149 species 
The above list includes many saprophytic forms as well as para- 
sitic forms, and is small considering the size of the state and the 
great diversity of conditions represented. 
In connection with the investigation of diseases of cattle, H. W. 
Ravenel, of South Carolina, visited Texas in the spring of 1869, 
and made collections at Houston, Galveston, Corpus Christi and In- 
dian ola. According to his own summary (38), his fungous collec- 
tions included the following: 
Hymenomycetes . ............................... 64 
Ascomycetes ................................... 151 
Gasteromycetes . 13 
Hyphomycetes . 26 
Coniomycetes . 28 
The above record shows a total of 282 species collected, while it 
will be seen from reference to the summary of Cooke’s report that 
