STUDY OF MYCOLOGY 



pean species appeared in 1874 in his Hymenomycetes Europaei 

 the preface of which was dated on his eighty-first birthday. Be- 

 sides these works bearing on the mycological system he published 

 numerous short papers and several elaborately illustrated folios.* 



The brothers Tulasne, after various publications on the tremel- 

 lines, Cordycfps, Claviceps, Nidulariaceae, and subterranean fungi, 

 to which citations have already been made under their proper 

 orders, produced their classic work on the Ascomycetes, Selecta 

 Fungoruin Carpologia, in three folio volumes (1861-1865) in which 

 the fundamental characters of the Ascomycetes are delineated in a 

 sumptuous form that has been the despair of later contributors to 

 the subject. 



De Bary after a splendid foundation in his researches among 

 the lower algae took up the special study of the morphology and 

 sexual characters of the lower fungi. His writings, either alone 

 or associated with Woronin, are numerous and widely scattered, 

 but a summary of his conclusions (fortunately translated into Eng- 

 lish) appears in his Comparative Morphology and Biology of the 

 Fungi, Bacteria and Mycetozoa,-j- to which the advanced student 

 of mycology must constantly refer as his guide. 



In the last generation many important contributions have ap- 

 peared, two of which deserve special notice. The first is the ex- 

 tensive compilation of Saccardo (1845-), Sylloge Fungorum, which 

 involved the transcribing of descriptions of over forty thousand 

 species culled from all languages, their translation into Latin, 

 and their arrangement in an attempted systematic order. \ While 



The two most important of these are cited on p. 131 and p. 144 respec- 

 tively. 



fit is to be regretted that some mycologists have recommended this 

 work to persons who " desired to learn something about fungi." This 

 classic has its proper use, but unless the purpose was to discourage those 

 who wished to learn something of the subject, it should not be recommended 

 to immature students of any age. A beginner cannot well learn Latin with 

 only a copy of Livy in hand, and without a broad preliminary acquaintance 

 with the subject. De Bary is equally unsuited for a novice in mycology. 



| This work is now becoming rare and expensive. The eleven volumes 

 were published as follows: i: 1882; 2: 1883 (Pyrenomycetes) ; 3: 

 1884 ( Sphaeropsideae,' Melanconieae) ; 4: 1886 ( Ilyphomycetes) ; 5: 

 1887 (Agaricaceae) ; 6: 1888 (Hymenomycetes); 7: 1888 (Gastromy- 

 cetes, Uredineae, Ustilagineae, Phycomycetes); 8 : 1889 (Discomycetes) ; 

 9: 1891 ; 10 : 1892; ii : 1895 (supplements). 



