BOTANICAL: GAZETTE 
“Vou. IX. FEBRUARY, 1884. No. 2. - 
Some North American Botanists. 
IX. Lewis Davin DE ScHWEINITZ. 
BY A. P. MORGAN. 
_ Allittle sketch of the labors of the celebrated de Schweinitz 
in the department of mycology, may give some notion of the 
large and varied field of natural objects open to the eyes of the 
Inquiring botanist in every locality, and may also give good en- 
couragement as to the amount that may be accomplished by work- 
Ing therein, provided the work be done in a persistent and sys- 
tematic way. 3 
It is greatly to be desired that some one, as Mr. Rau, ina 
position to obtain the facts, should give us an extended account 
of the life and labors of this great botanist. In so far as I may 
touch upon his biography, I quote from memory and aim only 
to be generally correct, but, in reference to his labors, I have be- 
fore me the ‘“ Synopsis Fungorum in America Boreali media de- 
_ gentium,” communicated to the American Philosophical Society, 
Philadelphia, 15 April, 1831. 
wis David de Schweinitz was born at Bethlehem, Pa., in 
1794, and sent to Europe to receive his education. there 
distinguished himself in mycologic studies, and with Albertini, 
published the “Conspectus Fungorum in Lusatia superiori.” Re- 
turning to his native land, he settled at Salem, N. C., where he 
Temained a few years. The results of his mycologic studies in 
this locality were published at Leipsic, in 1818, by his friend, 
the celebrated Schwaegrichen, as “ Synopsis Fungorum Caroline 
Superioris,’ * In 1821 he returned to his native village in Penn- 
sylvania, where his delightful studies Were continued till his 
death, which occurred, I think, in 1834. He enjoyed the friend- 
ship of the most distinguished botanists of his time, both in 
Europe and in this country. With the vigorous prosecution of 
studies in Fungology, his merits as a close and careful student 
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