NORTH AMERICAN FUNGI. 



Rafiiiesque-Schmaltz, C. S. 



5O5 b . Prospectus of Mr. Rafinesque-Schmaltz's 

 two intended works on North American botany ; 

 the first on the new genera and species of plants 

 discovered by himself, and the second on the natu- 

 ral history of the funguses, or mushroom-tribe of 

 America. Medical Repository. Second Hexade. 

 V. 350-356, New York, 1808. 



On pp. 355, 356, is an enumeration of 17 new genera with 

 brief remarks and names of some of the species included 

 under the genera. The author states that he " shall describe 

 in this work nearly 850 species or varieties of American 

 mushrooms, of which one half will be new orders, and most 

 of them elucidated by plates." 



505. Essential generic and specific characters 

 of some new genusses and species of plants ob- 

 served in the United States of America in 1803 and 

 1804. By Mr. C. G. Rafinesque-Schmaltz. In a 

 communication to Dr. Mitchell, dated Palermo, 

 Sept. 1, 1807. Medical Repository. Second Hex- 

 ade. V. 356-363, New York, 1808. 



On pp. 362, 363, are descriptions of 20 new species of fungi, 

 principally Pezizae and Clavariae. Neither this paper nor 

 the preceding have any scientific value. 



After no. 523* insert the following : 



Richardson, (Sir) John. 



523 b . Remarks on the climate and vegetable 

 productions of the Hudson's Bay countries. Edin- 

 burgh Phil. Jour. XII. 197-231. April, 1825. Also 

 reprint, pp. 35. 



In a table on p. 224 is a list of 12 genera of fungi with the 

 the number of species growing in the Hudson Bay country. 



After no. 508 insert the following : 

 Sahagun, Bernardino DE. 

 508*. Historia universal de las cosas de Nueva 

 Espana. 



This work, whose author lived about the 16th century, is 

 given in Kingsborough's Antiquities of Mexico. Vol. VII. 

 London. 1831. In the llth book, 7th chapter, pp. 369-394, 

 is an account of plants, including some fungi. According to 

 Mr. W. R. Gerard, who has called our attention to this title, 

 this is probably the earliest account of North American fungi. 

 There are brief descriptions with Aztec names of 12 species, 

 one of which appears to be Lycoperdon giganteum and 

 another probably Agaricus muscarius. 



After no. 528 insert the following : 



Riley, Charles Valentine. The cabbage Plusia. 



Kept. U. S. Dept. Agr. for 1883, pp. 119-122. 

 On p. 121 is a notice of a disease of Plusia Brassicae 



caused by Batrytis Rileyi Farlow, of which a description is 



given. 



After Schmidt, J. C., insert the following : 

 Schoepf, Johann David. Wunsiedel, 8 March, 



1752. fAnspach, 10 Sept. 1800. 

 552 a . Materia medica americana, potissimum 



regni vegetabilis. Erlangen. 1787. 8. pp. 170. 



On p. 159 is an account of Agaricus coriaceus, Ag. Auri- 

 cula-judae, Lycoperdon Tuber, and L. Bocista, taken from 

 Gronovius's Flora Virginica, 2d ed. See title no. 337. In 

 this work the author's name is given Schoepf but in other 

 works it is Schoepff. 



No. 563. In the note, Blastema should be Bla- 

 stesis. The statement that this species was not 

 published is incorrect. See "A fungus on the 

 leaves of pear trees," by W. H. Seaman, in Am. 

 Month. Micr. Jour. III. 169, 170. Sept. 1882. 



To Seymour, A. B., add : See Burrill, T. J. 



After no. 568* insert the following : 



Seymour, Arthur Bliss. 



568 b . Rusts of pomaceous fruits. Prairie 

 Farmer, p. 648, fig. 1-4. 2 Oct. 1886. 



An account of the Gymno sporangia and Roesteliae of the 

 Eastern United States, including a letter from J. G. Vaughn 

 concerning forms observed in Marion Co., 111. Same in sub- 

 stance as no. 567*. 



After no. 598 insert the following : 



Tournefort, Joseph Pitton DE. Aix, Provence, 

 5 June, 1656. fParis, 28 Dec. 1708. 



598*. Institutiones rei herbariae. Editio altera, 

 etc. Vol. III. pp. 697. PI. 476. Paris, 1700. 



On pp. 560, 563, 565, 666, are references to 5 fungi from 

 America, 2 of them taken from Plukenet and one from Mo- 

 rison. The species are also given in the third edition on the 

 same pages, except 666. 



After no. 611 insert the following : 

 Tucker man, Edward. 



6n a . Note on Geaster quadrifidus. Am. Jour. 

 Sci. and Arts, XXXVI. 380. July, 1839. 



Brief note stating that he has found this species in Cam- 

 bridge, Mass. 



After Wilkes Expedition insert the follow- 

 ing : 



Williams, Stephen W. 



627*. Report on the indigenous medical botany 

 of Massachusetts. Trans. Am. Med. Ass. II. 863- 

 927. 1849. 



On p. 924, under the heading "Mushrooms," is note on 

 Helvetia amara and Boletus Laricis, of no value. 



In Supplement, p. 35, 19th line from bottom, 

 instead of " See title no. 22" read " See title no. 

 227." 



The statement under FUNGI EUROPAEI Exsic- 

 CATI that "the only part of the series which con- 

 tains American specimens is that from Cent. 27 

 on " is incorrect. In the appendix to Cent. 9 of 

 the HERBARIUM VIVUM MYCOLOGICUM is Stereum, 

 fasciatum from North America. 



The attention of mycologists should be called to 

 the Contribution to American Bibliography of In- 

 sect Diseases in Psyche, V. 15-20, 45, 46, Jan 

 April, 1888, which gives a number of references to 

 titles, partly botanical and partly entomological, 

 which cannot well be introduced into the present 

 list. 



