Note 



MASS. 



MORG. 



PK. 

 PERS. 



ROZE. 

 SCHW. 



SCOP. 



SACC. 



VAHL. 



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

 substantive ; while the second, or specific, name is 

 an adjective. Lactarius is the generic name of 

 those fungi dripping milk, and deliciosus (delicious) 

 the specific name for one edible species. 



George Massee, an English botanist. 



A. P. Morgan, an American botanist. 



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

 New York. 



Christian Hendrik Persoon (1755-1837), a German 

 botanist. 



Ernest Roze, a French botanist. 



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

 can botanist ; one of the first to make mycology a 

 serious study. 



Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723-1788), an Italian 

 botanist. 



Jacobi Christiani Schaeffer (1718-1790), a German 

 botanist. 



P. A. Saccardo (1845- ), an Italian botanist. Sac- 

 cardo is the compiler of Sylloge Fungorum, 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. 



Martin Vahl (1749-1804), 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: 



* as in fat 



fi as in cut 



fate 



met 



meet 



fin 



fine 



not 



note 



cute 

 rn^th 



my 



gem 

 get 

 cat 

 cent 



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