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GARDEN 
PREFACE 
i 1921 I was requested by the editors of this work to make a 
journey to Iceland for the purpose of investigating the fungi of 
that country, more particularly the Icelandic Hymenomycetes, among 
which especially the Agaricaceae occupied a less important place in 
previous works on the fungi of Iceland than their supposed number 
would seem to warrant. The journey was made at the expenses 
of the Carlsberg Fund. 
In addition I undertook to work up the results of my own 
observations with the lists of Icelandic fungi previously published. 
The results are now at hand in the present paper. 
With few exceptions I have myself examined the fungi given 
in the list either in their localities or in the Herbarium of Icelandic 
Fungi in the Botanical Museum at Copenhagen. 
Of the fungi collected by me those growing on dung and some 
of the Fungi imperfecti have been examined and determined by 
Magister O. Rostrup, for which I tender him my cordial thanks. 
I owe special thanks to the editors of The Botany of Iceland 
for the confidence they reposed in me by entrusting me with this 
work, and for the grants for its completion which they have 
procured for me. 
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