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I Wti-fic STl.OHog'-tapIv ^^lo. 1 QcioUr, 15»31 €^t 3nn)emf CounctT of ilgt^tcuf^uraf C^eerearc? The Fungi of India BY E. J. BUTLER, C.I.E., D.Sc, M.B., F.R.S. (Director, fmperial Mycological Institute, Kew, Surrey), Late Imperial Mycologist, Pusa, India. AND G. R. BJSBY, Ph,D. (Professor of Phytopathology at the University of Manitoba). CALCUTTA: GOVERNMENT OF INDIA 'CENTRAL PUBLICATION BRANCH 1931 Price Rs. 6^2 or lis. Cro^emnieiit of India Publications are obtaiuaWe from the Govemraent of India Central Publication Branch, 3, Government'Place, West, Cali.!itta, and from the following Agents :— EUROPE. OffnOE OF THE HIGH C0MMIS3I0NBE FOB Iff DIA, INDIA HOUSE. ALDWrCH, Losoon, W. C. 2. And at all Bookselleis. INDIA AND CEYLON : Provincial Book Depots. MADRAS:—Superintendent, Government Press, Mount Eoad, Madras. BOMBAY :—Superintendent, Government Printing and Stationery, Queen's Road, Bombay. SIKD:—Library attached to the Office of the Commissioner in Sind, Karachi. 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Port. 5 Shri Shankar Karnataka Pustoka Bhaudara, Malamuddi, Karnataka Publishing House, Bangalore City. j Dharwar. Bheema Sons, Fort, Bangalore City. The Standard Bookstall, Karachi, Qnetta, Delhi, Murree Superintendent, Bangalore Press, Lake View, Mysore Boad, and Rawalpindi. Bangalore City. AGENT IN PALESIIKE :—Stelmatzky, Jerusalem. * Agent for publications on aviation only. THE FUNGI OF INDIA. I.—INTRODUCTION Eirirata to the Scientific Monogifapk No. 1 of the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research entitled "The Fungi of India.*' Page 102, line 18. A rectangular bracket is to be inserted in the beginning. Page 120, line 32. For " Benga " read " Bengal ". Page 124, line 19. For "Da dalea " read "Daedalea ". Page 129, line 19. For " massee " read " Massee ". Page 131, line 1. The rectangular bracket and the letter " T " should be on the line. Page 139, line 16. For " Sporodesmium brassicaeae " read " Sporodesmium brassicae ". Page 171, line 45. For " galli Pers ", read " galii Pers ". MGIPC—M—38 CPB—19-4-1932—8C0. bution of the Indian fungus flora are presented in the pages which follow. II.—HISTORICAL. Linnaeus f appears to have been the first to publish a definite record of an Indian fungus when he described his Lycoperdon pistillare, 160 years ago. This species was transferred by Persoon (Syn. Meth. Fung., 1801, p. 150) to Scleroderma and by Fries to Podaxon. It was collected by Koenig, who was a Danish missionary in Tran- quebar, Tanjore, from 1767 to 1785, and some of whose collections of Indian fungi * Imperial Gazetteer, 3rd edition, 1906. t Mantissa plantarum, altera Generum editionis VI et Specierum editionis II, p. 313, 1771. Government of India Publications are obtainable from the Government of Infiia Central Publication Branch, 3, Government* Place, West, Calcutta, and from the following Agents :— EUROPE. oinoB Off TUB mau OOMMISSIONBE FOR INDIA, IxoiA HotJSB. Awwrcu, LONDON, W. C. 2. And at all Booksellers. 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