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. Albertini and Schweinitz. 



BATSCH. Augustus Batsch (1761-1802), German botanist 

 BERK. Rev. Miles Joseph Berkeley. 



B. & C. Berkeley and Curtis. 



Bosc Louis Bosc (1759-1828), one of the first collectors 

 of fungi in the United States. 



BULL. Pierre Bulliard, 1742-1793. 



BURNAP. Charles E. Burnap, an American student. 



BUXB. Johann Christian Buxbaum, 1693-1730. 



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

 nent Swiss botanist. 



DESV. Nicaise Augustin Desvaux, French botanist, 1784- 

 1856. 



ELLIS. 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. 



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



who laid the foundations for the study of the 

 Basidiomycetes. 



HOLMSK. Theodor Holmskiold (1732-1794), a Danish botanist. 



HUDS. William Hudson (1730-1793), an English botanist. 



LASCH. Wilhelm Lasch (1786-1863), a German botanist. 



LK. Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767-1851), a German 



botanist. 



L. or LINN. Carl von Linnaeus (1707-1778), 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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