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xvi INTRODUCTION.
Synonyms are listed with a number of the species. These are only cases in which
different names have been applied to the Indian fungi, and are entered and indexed
so that older references to these fungi can be traced. No effort has been made to
give complete synonymies. Recent revisions of groups of fungi have been consulted
and often followed. Bresadola (84, 85) has reported a considerable synonymy,
particularly for Polypores; we have followed him in these, and where Lloyd or
others give views regarding synonymous species, we have indicated these without,
however, altering the records as they stand.
A few records of Indian fungi have been shown definitely to require deletion;
these are given in square brackets, and not counted in the totals. Where the records
are given as admittedly uncertain, the species name is preceded by It query
(e.g., Puccinia ?andropogonis Schw.).
In a number of instances" India" is given in the published records of distribution
of species of fungi when, upon investigation, it was found that the East or W cst
Indies, Malay, Ceylon, or some other region should have been listed. These species
have been left out of this list entirely, since no especial value would come from the
attempted correction of all mistakes in geography, many of which are readily detectcd.
In a vcry few cases in which Saccardo gives India as part of the distribution
of a fungus, we have been unable to trace the original reference to India: these are
included as " recorded by Saccardo from India".
Host names are as tabulated in the Index Kewensis, except that in three or four
cases where the name could not be found there, it is given in quotation marks, and
in somc others the names used are there listed as synonyms. Hosts infected by artificial
inoculation only are not included in the Host Index. When a fungus is recorded,
for example, on Thea sinensis and Thea sp., the latter is not included in the Host
Index.
Reference to Saccardo's Sylloge Fungorum (given thus: "Sacc. VI: 120," referring
to volume and page respectively) is made in every case in which such reference
could be found. When the reterence to Saecardo in given first, the- fungus was
not originally described from India, except in a few CI1tlCS in which Saccardo
transterred the species to the genus here used. In the Uredinales, a reference
to Sydow's Monographia Uredinearum is similarly given. The other numbers
following an entry (e.g. 240: 130) refer to the number before the citation in the
bibliography, and to the page. When an entry reads, for example, "Sacc. IV: 15
as Oospora," a synonym is involved which is not known to have been applied to
an Indian record. The bibliography references following after a synonym applied
to an Indian fungus, usually indicate that these referred to papers in which the
synonym was used.
All specific names, whether of fungi or hosts, are given with lower case letters,
for typographical convenience and because of the difficulty of using capitals correctly
in every case,