MYCOLOGICAL NOTES 



Issued by C. G. LLOYD. 



224 West Court Street, - - CINCINNATI, OHIO. 



SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. A little personal interest on the part 

 of the recipient in picking up and sending to my address, specimens of 

 the larger fungi. All are desired excepting specimens of fleshy Agarics. 

 Simply dry the specimens and send them in. 



PROFESSOR EDWARD ANGUS BURT. 



We hold Prof. Burt to be one of the few really earnest, scholarly 

 men at work on American mycology. To his specialty, the Thel- 

 ephoraceae, he has given years of careful and close study. The 

 Thelephoraceae, particularly the resupinate species, demand the 

 most patient application and labor. The recent use of the micro- 

 scope in this field has made of it a new world. The old workers, with 

 scant material and superficial examinations and their obsessions for 

 "new species," made a mess of it. Xot a quarter of the species were 

 named, and of those named, few could be identified. Our species 

 are no doubt mostly the same as those in Europe, but no one had 

 any way of knowing what those in Europe are, much less those of 

 this country. 



Fifteen or perhaps twenty years ago, Prof. Burt spent a season 

 in Europe, studying such specimens as he collected, or found at Kew 

 or Upsala. It is to be regretted that he did not go to Leiden, the 

 home of Persoon's specimens, where are to be found the "real" types 

 of many of these species. I have not much sympathy with the idea, 

 now "legal," of starting with Fries, particularly in the cases where 

 he did not get Persoon's species right, and there are many cases of 

 this kind among the resupinates. 



Prof. Burt has been slow in publishing, and it is only in the last 

 two or three years that we have had much benefit from his studies. 

 We trust that his work will not be interrupted, until finished. In 

 our opinion, the resupinates will never be a very popular study, as 

 long as they involve as much work as at present, sectioning each 

 specimen. We think the study can be made more practical, but that 

 is for the future. 



Prof. Burt and Bresadola are, we believe, the only two con- 

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