NOTE 



It is customary, when writing the name of a fungus for 

 scientific purposes, to append the name of the author who first 

 published the appellation. The author's name, for convenience, 

 may be abbreviated. A list of such abbreviations as are used 

 in this book is given below. 



A. & S. 

 Batsch. 

 Berk. 



B. & C. 

 Bosc. 



Bull. 



BURNAP. 

 BUXB. 



D. C. 



Desv. 

 Ellis. 



Fr. 



Holmsk. 



HUDS. 



Lasch. 

 Lk. 



Lor Linn. 



Albertini and Schweinitz. 



Augustus Batsch (i 761-1802), German botanist. 



Rev. Miles Joseph Berkeley. 



Berkeley and Curtis. 



Louis Bosc ( 1 759-1828), one of the first collectors 

 of fungi in the United States. 



Pierre Bulliard, 1 742-1 793. 



Charles E. Burnap, an American student. 



Johann Christian Buxbaum, 1 693-1 730. 



Augustin Pyrame de Candolle (1778-1841), a promi- 

 nent Swiss botanist. 



Nicaise Augustin Desvaux, French botanist, 1784- 

 1856. 



J. B. Ellis. Mr. Ellis is a mycologist in the United 

 States. The Ellis collection of fungi contains the 

 largest number of types of any collection of Ameri- 

 can fungi in existence. It is deposited in the 

 museum of the New York Botanical Garden. 



Elias Magnus Fries (1794- 1878), a Swedish botanist, 

 who laid the foundations for the study of the 

 Basidiomycetes. 



Theodor Holmskiold (i 732-1 794), a Danish botanist. 



William Hudson (i 730-1 793), an English botanist. 



Wilhelm Lasch (1786-1865), a German botanist. 



Heinrich Friedrich Link (i 767-1851), a German 



botanist. 

 Carl von Linnaeus (i 707-1 778), a Swedish botanist, 

 who revised the principles of classification and 

 introduced what is known as the binomial no- 

 menclature. According to his method, the name 

 of a plant is reduced to two words : the first, or 

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