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the species in this list were found in the Carolinas and in 

 Pennsylvania. 



In 1849 a Catalogue of the Plants of Cincinnati collected 

 by Thomas G. Lea was issued. In the Catalogue are the 

 names of three hundred and nineteen species of Fungi, ot 

 which fifty four are described as new, the descriptions, 

 drawn up by Rev. M. J. Berkeley, being given both in 

 Latin and in English. There are descriptions, in Eaton's 

 Botany, of nearly four hundred species, but they are 

 scarcely sufficient for the satisfactory identification of the 

 species, being necessarily reduced to the greatest brevity 

 on account of the comprehensive character of the volume. 



Dr. Curtis's " Catalogue of the Plants of North Caro- 

 lina," issued in 1867, contains a list ot almost twenty-four 

 hundred species of Fungi of which four hundred and 

 ninety-one are uew species and referred to the joint author- 

 ship of Berkeley and Curtis. Descriptions of a part of 

 these may be found in Sillirnan's Journal. Sets of dried 

 specimens in four volumes, each volume containing speci- 

 mens of one hundred species, have been prepared by H. 

 "W. Ravenel of South Carolina. The names are neatly 

 printed on the labels and each volume has a printed index 

 of its species. These specimens afford a valuable aid to 

 the student of mycology. A few other local lists of species 

 and an occasional short article in scientific journals com- 

 plete our present literature of the Fungi. From the 

 foregoing data it appears that descriptions of only about 

 fifteen hundred of our species have been published in this 

 country, and that about twelve hundred of these are in 

 Latin alone so that they are not available to students 

 unable to read that language. 



The present classification of Fungi is essentially that 

 introduced by the celebrated Cryptogamic botanist, Elias 

 Fries, in his " Systema Mycologicum." There are five 

 principal divisions ; viz, the' Hyinenoinyeetes or membrane 



