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ART. XXYllL— Exotic Fungi from the Schrveinitzian Herbarium, principally fro^n 



Surinam. 



Revised by the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, M. A., F. L. S., and Rev. M. A. Curtis, D.D. 



As the least return which can be made to the Academy, for the liberality with which 

 the collection of Fungi left by Schweinitz has not only been freely entrusted for exami- 

 nation to one of us, but permission granted to select a specimen, whenever it could be 

 done without injury to the Herbarium, this commencement of a reviewof all the species 

 which it contains is now submitted. This is the more necessary because, though spe- 

 cimens were liberally distributed in Europe of the species contained in Schweinitz's 

 first Catalogue of American Fungi, that was not the case with those described in the 

 Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, a great portion of which, in 

 consequence, have never been admitted into general catalogues of Fungi. From the 

 ravages of time and insects, the specimens are not always in such a complete 

 condition as to enable us to arrive at any satisfactory conclusion ; but when this is 

 the case, we can confidently assert that it has not been from carelessness or inatten- 

 tion. A large portion of the Surinam species were not described by Schweinitz, but, 

 as they have come under the review of Fries, Kunze, Montague, and others, they 

 have appeared under names different from those by which they are indicated in your 

 Herbarium; and as published names always have the preference to those which 

 remain in manuscript, they must necessarily be retained. After these deductions, 

 however, and others which must be made on the score of the present imperfection of 

 the specimens subjected to examination, there still remain some interesting novelties, 

 including two or three well-marked genera. 



The Fungi of the United States will follow in the order in which they are arranged 

 in the Transactions above mentioned ; but, as the task must be one of much length 

 and difficulty, we shall probably be obliged to divide it into at least two portions, 

 with no greater delay than a multitude of avocations will amply excuse. 



1. Lentinus anthocephalus. Lev. Herb. L. flahelliformis, Schwein., MSS. 



On dead wood ; Surinam. 



2. SCHizoPHYLtUM UMBRINUM, Berk, in Hook. Journ. vol. iii. p. 15, tab. i. fig. 1. Lentimis resupvim^, 



Schwein. MSS. 

 Apparently on Bamboo ; Surinam. 



3. Lenzites striata, Fr. Ep. p. 406. Lenlm'us reniformk, Schwein. MSS. 



On dead wood ; Surinam. 



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