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by anyone else up to the time of Doctor Peck's death. Since then, 

 Professor Atkinson (Am. Jour. Bot., 5:210, 1918) published names 

 and descriptions of twenty-five additional new American species, an 

 accumulation of many years. 



During an extensive study of American collections toward a 

 more complete monograph of the American species, I had the oppor- 

 tunity, through the kindness of Dr H. D. House, to make a critical 

 examination of all the collections of Inocybe which had accumulated 

 at Albany during Doctor Peck's regime, including of course, types 

 of his species. About 275 collections were gone over ; each of these, 

 except in a few cases, must be considered a separate collection. Of 

 these. Doctor Peck himself collected by far the greater part and his 

 own handwriting is present on practically all his own finds. The 

 data of Doctor Peck's own collections are very meager, usually 

 giving no more than the locality, sometimes the county, and the 

 month in which the material was obtained; rarely does he mention 

 the year or the day of the month.^ 



A number of the types and other species from extralimital regions 

 were communicated to him by collectors of fungi living in other 

 states. Simon Davis sent material from Massachusetts; Dr N. M. 

 Glatfelter, from St Louis, Mo. ; F. J. Braendle, from the District of 

 Columbia; J. M. Macoun. from Ottawa. Canada; B. O. Longyear, 

 from Michigan ; Baker, from California ; and Morgan, from Ohio. 

 Only a few other donors sent Inocybe material from outside the 

 State. 



In 1910, as a part of the New York State Museum Bulletin 139, 

 Doctor Peck got together an account of the New York species of 

 Inocybe, which is in the main a compilation of the scattered descrip- 

 tions and commentaries of previous State Botanist's reports. I shall 

 refer to this hereinafter as Peck's Monograph. In going over the 

 collections, it soon became evident to me that Doctor Peck had not 

 attempted to base the monograph on all his collections but had care- 

 fully examined selected packets, many of which belonged to the 

 type collections, a part of which in each case was mounted on sheets. 

 At least such a set of packets has been kept together and apart from 



1 In the case of type specimens, and species reported for the first time, the 

 year can be ascertained by reference to the published description or report, 

 since Doctor Peck appears rarely to have reported or described a species 

 later than in the report for the year in which the specimen was collected. In 

 other cases his collections can be checked up with his voluminous notes, 

 occupying over forty large notebooks and the exact year of collection 

 determined. H. D. House 



