Note 



generic, name is a substantive or a word used as a 

 substantive ; wiiile tiie second, or specific, name is 

 an adjective. Lactarius is tiie generic name of 

 those fungi dripping mili<, and deliciosiis (delicious) 

 the specific name for one edible species. 



Mass. George Massee, an English botanist. 



MoRG. A. P. Morgan, an American botanist. 



Pk. Charles H. Peck (1833- ), the State botanist of 



New York. 



Pers. Christian Hendrik Persoon (1755-1837), a German 



botanist. 



RozE. Ernest Roze, a French botanist. 



ScHW. Lewis David de Schweinitz (1780-1834), an Ameri- 

 can botanist ; one of the first to make mycology a 

 serious study. 



Scop. Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (i 723-1 788), an Italian 



botanist. 



ScH^FF. Jacobi Christiani Schaeffer (1718-1790), a German 

 botanist. 



Sacc. p. a. Saccardo (1845- ), an Italian botanist. Sac- 



cardo is the compiler of Sylloge Fiiiigonwi, a work 

 in Latin, containing descriptions of over forty thou- 

 sand species. It is a most valuable work, as it has 

 made accessible to workers throughout the world 

 the greater part of the technical descriptive litera- 

 ture upon the subject of fungi. 



Vahl. Martin Vahl (i 749-1 804), a Norwegian botanist. 



The diacritical marks used in the pronunciation of the Latin 

 names indicate the sounds of the same letters in the following 

 list : 



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