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NORTH AMERICAN FUNGI. 



Porter, Thomas Conrad. Alexandria, Hunt- 

 ingdon Co., Penn., 22 Jan. 1822. 

 and Coulter, J. M. 



503. Synopsis of the flora of Colorado. Misc. 

 Publ. no. 4, Dept. Interior, U. S. Geol. and Geog. 

 Survey of the Territories. F. V. Hayden, U. S, 

 Geologist, in charge. 8. pp. 180. Washington, 

 1874. 



On pp. 163, 164, is an account of 8 fungi by C. H. Peck, two 

 of them described as new. 



Prentiss, Albert Nelson. Cazenovia, N. Y., 

 22 May, 1836. 



503*. Puff-balls and their kindred. Cornell 

 Era, IV. 179-181. 8 Dec. 1871. 



A popular account of fungi, with description of a large 

 specimen of Lycoperdon giganteum. 



5O3 b . Destruction of obnoxious insects 



by means of fungoid growths. Am. Nat. XIV. 

 575-581, 630-635. Aug., Sept. 1880. 



Report on a number of experiments with regard to the 

 action of yeast in destroying insects, from which the author 

 concludes that yeast has very little value as a means for de- 

 stroying insects. Substance of this paper also given in Am. 

 Entomol. and Sot. III. 269. 



Prillienx, Edouard Ernest. Paris, 11 Jan. 1829. 



504. Quelques mots sur le rot des vignes Ameri- 

 caines et 1'anthracnose des vignes fran9aises. Bull. 

 Soc. jBot. France, XXVII. 34-38. 13 Feb. 1880. 



Includes notes on Phoma uvicola, considered by the author 

 to be distinct from the fungus of anthracnose. The paper is 

 followed by remarks of Dr. M. Cornu, whose views are differ- 

 ent from those of the author. 



505. Cause du rot des raisins en Ameri- 



que. Comptes rendus, XCV. 605. 2 Oct. 1882. 



Notes on Peronospora vitica'.a in America, and on the 

 trouble caused by a species of Phoma. 



Provancher, L. (Abbe). See THUEMEN, 

 F. von. 



Rabenhorst, (Gottlieb) Ludwig. Treuen- 

 brietzen, 22 March, 1806. fMeissen, 24 April, 

 1881. See HEDWIGIA. See EXSICCATI in supple- 

 ment. See WINTER, G. 



Rafinesque-Schmaltz, Constant! n Samuel 

 Galata, near Constantinople, 22 Oct. 1783. fPhila. 

 delphia, 1840. See GERARD, W. R. 



506. Precis des decouvertes et travaux somi- 

 ologiques de Mr. C. S. Rafinesque-Schmaltz entre 

 1800 et 1814, ou choix raisonne de ses principales 

 decouvertes en zoologie et en botanique pour 

 servir d'introduction a ses ouvrages futurs. 12. 

 pp. 65. Palermo. 1814. 



On pp. 49-52 are descriptions of 18 species of fungi and five 

 new genera from the United States, principally Delaware and 

 New Jersey. 



507. Florula Ludoviciana; or, a flora of 



the State of Louisiana. Translated, revised, and 

 improved from the French of C. C. Robin, by C. 

 S. Rafinesque. 8. pp. 178. New York. 1817. 



On p. 12 is a notice of 7 fungi taken ostensibly from work 

 of C. C. Robin, see no. 532, one of them called a new species, 

 Morchella odorata. 



508. Prodrome des nouveaux genres de 



plantes observes en 1817 et 1818 dans 1'interieur 

 des Etats-Unis d'Amerique. Isis, 1820, part 1, 

 236-244. 



Has on p. 243 descriptions of three new genera of fungi, 

 Rimella, JSndoconia, and Gemmularia, from the United 

 States. 



509. Medical Flora, or manual of the 



medical botany of the United States of North 

 America, containing a selection of above 100 

 figures and descriptions of medical plants, with 

 their names, qualities, properties, history, etc., 

 and notes or remarks on nearly 500 equivalent 



substitutes. 8. Philadelphia. Vol. I. pp. 268 

 pi. 52. 1828. Vol. II. pp. 276, pi. 48. 1830. 



In volume II. references to Agaricus, Amanita, JSoletus, 

 etc., of no value. 



Rau, Eugene Abraham. Bethlehem, Pa., 

 22 July, 1848. 



510. A new Phallus. Bot. Gaz. VIII. 223, 224. 

 PI. 4. May, 1883. 



Account of a species found at Bethlehem, Pa., with a de- 

 scription in Latin of Phallus togatus by Kalchbrenner. See 

 nos. 280 and 375. 



Ravaz, L. See VIALA, P. 



Ravenel, Henry William. St. John's Parish, 

 Berkley Co., S. C., 19 May, 1814. See BERKELEY, 

 M. J. See COOKE, M. C. See PORCHER, F. P. 

 See THUEMEN VON F. See EXSICCATI in supplement. 



511. Contributions to the cryptogamic 



botany of South Carolina. Med. Jour, and Rev. 

 Charleston, IV. 428-433. July, 1849. V. 324- 

 327. May, 1850. VI. 190-199. March, 1851. 



Part 1 has mosses and hepatics, part 2 lichens, and part 3 

 fungi. A list of 169 Ift/menomycetes, with habitats and notes 

 in some cases on edible qualities. In a foot note is an account 

 of the fairy rings of Agaricus Achimenes, B. and C. 



512. Report on the fungi of Texas. Kept. 



Commissioner Agr. on diseases of Cattle in United 

 States. 4. pp. 171-174. Washington. 1871. 



General account of fungi collected in Texas, with statistics 

 of fungi of that region. 



513. A list of the more common native 



and naturalized plants of South Carolina. In 

 South Carolina. Resources and Population, Insti- 

 tutions and Industries. Published by the State 

 Board of Agriculture of South Carolina. 8. pp. 

 312-359. Charleston. 1883. 



On pp. 353-356 is a list of 35 species of fungi, of which the 

 popular and scientific names are given, but no descriptions. 



N. B. A paper on "Edible Mushrooms of this country" 

 was read by this author before the Aiken Vine-Growing and 

 Hort. Ass. about the year 1862-3, and was printed in the 

 newspapers of Charleston. The paper gave a popular ac- 

 count of the mode of identi fying common edible mushrooms, 

 Agaricus campestris, A. amygdalinus, and some others. 



Ray, John. Black Notley, Eng., 29 Nov. 1G28. 

 |17 Jan. 1705. 

 5i3 a . Historia Plantarum, etc. f. Vol. L- 



III. London. 1686-1704. 



Title here given in an abbreviated form. The only refer- 

 ences to United States fungi in this work are the species 

 collected by J. Banister in Virginia in 1680, which were pre- 

 viously described and figured by Plukenet, q. v. The Pilo- 

 bolus mentioned in title 498 is first given by Ray in vol. II. 

 1926, and is the only fungus in the list of species collected by 

 Banister. The other fungi of Banister are in the third volume 

 of Ray, pp. 20, 25. 



Roes, Max. 



514. Die rostpilzformen der deutschen Coni- 

 feren zusammengestellt und beschrieben von Dr. 

 Max Rees. 4. pp. 70. PI. 2. Halle. 1869. 

 Extr. Abhandl. Naturf. Gesells. Halle, XI. 49-118. 

 PI. 1, 2. 1870. 



Has a note on Gymnosporangium macropus. 

 Rehm, Heinrich. EderheimnearN6rdlingen,Ba 

 varia, 20 Oct. 1828. See EXSICCATI in supplement 



515. Note on Peziza calycina, Schum. Grcv. 



IV. 169. June, 1876. 



Includes a description of a new species, Pezisa Ellisiana, 

 sent from New Jersey by J. B. Ellis. See no. 118. 



516. Bemerkungen iiber (einige) Ascomy- 



ceten. Hedwigia, XVIII. 113-115, Aug. 1879; 

 161-169, Nov. 1879. XXI. 130-139, Sept. 1882; 

 145-148, Oct. 1882. 



Part 1 has no American references. Part 2, p. 168, has a 

 note on Didymosphaeria gntmata from New Jersey. Part 3 

 has notes on 19 American species, most of them from Ellis's 

 North American Fungi. Part 4, p. 146, has a note on Val- 

 saria cincta, also from Ellis. 



