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350 Contributions to the Mycology of North America. 
mington, N. C., he held the office of French Consul. His new 
species, which are all interesting, do not exceed half a dozen; 
"4 and only. one—the curious Hyperhiza—retains the place he g re 
—a beautiful Fungus—belongs to Mitremyces, Nees: L. trans-— 
versarium, Bosc, is Cauloglossum transversarium, Fries. And L. 
cyathiforme, Bosc, I suspect is a state of L. Bovista, Linn. ~~ 
Dr. Muhlenberg established the fine genus, Glonium. Beyor 
this I am not aware that he added anything new. 
ead? The largest additions to the knowledge of Fungi in this coun- 
_* try were made by the learned Schweinitz. He had already ac- 
_* quired a European reputation by a valuable local work on Fungi, 
. prepared by himself and Albertini It is in this department of 
botany that he was especially skilled and successful, though he is 
» generally better known among us for his investigations in other 
orders. In 1820, he published in the Leipsic Transactions, un- 
ditorship of Schwegrichen, his F'uner Carotins® SupPe- 
eing an enumeration of. species already published which 
1e ha ‘detected in North Carolina, with description’ of new ones. 
The number of species in that paper is 1373. 
In 1831, Mr. Schweinitz published in the Transactions of the 
American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, a “Synopsis 
_ Fungorum in America Boreali media degentium.” This in- 
» cludes all the species of the former paper, and like that, is com- 
posed of enumeration and description. It includes 3098 species, 
of which over twelve hundred are given as first discovered by 
uimself. From these some deduction must be made for bad spe- 
Mycelia, pseudo-Fungi, and a few already described by 
Still his additions, confined as his examinations were to 
stricts, must be considered very large and interesting. 
me half dozen new genera were founded by this author. 
The late Mr. Lea of Ohio, had given some attention to this class 
ts. His small collection was sent to the Rev. M. J. Ber- 
keley of England. It comprised thirty or forty undescribed spe- 
cles, part of which have been published by Mr. B. in Hooker’s 
London Journal of Botany. This accomplished mycologist has 
also published a few other species from different parts of North 
America, which have been easily gathered by various collectors. 
Among them is a species of Cyclomyces—C. Greenei, Berk.—a 
very interesting addition to our Fungi, discovered by B. T. 
Greene, Esq., at Tewksbury, Mass. 
At present [ do not know that any American botanist is giving 
this obscure but interesting order any special attention, except 1H. 
W. Ravenel, Esq., of South Carolina, and myself. 
upon pine logs and stumps. Lycoperdon heterogeneum, tan 
