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. 



P. A. KARSTEN 



Through the kindness of Lars Romell we are enabled to present 

 to our readers a photograph of Professor Karsten, who died recently, 

 April 22, 1917. Professor Karsten was born in 1834 and he was in 

 his 83d year at the time of his death. The photograph which was 

 procured for us by Mr. Romell from Dr. K. Starback was taken some 

 fifteen or twenty years ago, or perhaps longer. 



Karsten has been very active in the study of fungi and was a 

 practical field collector. He has written a great deal on the fungi of 

 Finland, most of it systematic. In his earlier works he followed the 

 classification of Fries, and personally, we think, it is unfortunate 

 that he did not so continue until the end. However, like a few others, 

 he imagined that he could get up a classification that would supplant 

 Fries, but I think it was a failure and that but few mycologists pay 

 any attention to it. It is unfortunate that men like Karsten, Quelet 

 and others, who were the most active field workers and attained the 

 best knowledge of their local plants, should have lessened the value 

 of their work by attempting to impose a lot of useless names in which 

 no one else is interested Karsten collected in practically the same 

 region as Fries and had he been content to work as a commentator and 

 illustrator of Friesian plants, his work would have been of great value, 

 for Karsten had the advantage of the use of the microscope, which 

 Fries never employed to any extent. 



Karsten's work has been very useful in adding to the knowledge 

 of the plants of that region, not only by his publications, but by his 

 exsiccatae, which are found in almost every museum of Europe. He 

 was evidently a very active collector and student. 



We wish to extend our thanks to Mr. Lars Romell and through 

 him to Dr. Starback for the loan of the photograph. It is perhaps 

 well to state that our photo-engraving being an enlargement, has a 

 rugged and unpolished appearance, due to the enlargement, but the 

 features of the original are well presented. 



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