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tributions to the knowledge of the Danish fungi. Already in 

 one of his first works he records 66 species of fungi which he has 

 found near Frederiksdal and almost all of which may be referred to 

 their proper species. He used a whole book for the description of 

 Boletus edulis (1763) and he furnished it with good pictures. Of the 

 new species of fungi recorded by Muller may be mentioned: Roestelia 

 penicillata, Clavaria inaequalis &. rufa, Lasiobolus equinus, Aleuria 

 aurantia and Verpa conica. 



Martin Vahl was born in Bergen on Oct 

 tober 10. 1749. He studied botany with Linne 

 from 1769 to 1775, and was one of the pus 

 pils dearest to his master. Then he travelled 

 much abroad, from the north of Norway to 

 Tunis and on his return he was appointed 

 lecturer and later on professor of botany at 

 the University of Copenhagen. He was, no 

 doubt, the most clever and diligent botanist 

 in this country during that time, but unfor* 

 tunately he died early (Decbr. 24., 1804), 

 and his great work on the Danish and Nor* 

 wegian fungi ("Fungi per regnum Daniae et 

 Norvegiae crescentes") has never been pub« 

 lished but the M. S. is in the library of the 

 Botanical garden of Copenhagen. He sues 

 ceeded, however, in publishing six volumes of the 'Tlora Danica", 

 containing many good figures of fungi. He is f. inst. the author of Hes 

 lotium virgultorum and phiala as well as of z\rmillaria mellea; he also 

 had a stimulating influence on his contemporaries awakening their ins 

 terest in botany. Both Hornemann and Schumacher must be con= 

 sidered his pupils, the latter continued to receive much help from Vahl 

 who, in the preface of his "Enumeratio", is called "Professor magni 

 nominis Vahl, vir nominis immortalis botanicorum, illustrissimus." 



Heinrich Christian Schumacher (born 1757 at Gliickstadt, died 

 1830 in Copenhagen) was a Copenhagen physician and had a large 

 practice. He was also professor at the University and a man of high 

 standing who held many public offices, so it is all the more praises 

 worthy that he, in his idle hours, has been able to collect and pres 

 pare so large a material of Phanerogams and Cryptogams as he did. 

 In his work, generally called "Enumeratio", he records 2189 plants 

 among those 925 species of fungi. In the preface he writes that he 

 has, during 22 years, roved through the country adjacent to Copens 

 hague within about a 12 mile radius often accompanied by Vahl, who 

 is called "amicus svavissimus" Of course many of those species of 



M. Vahl. 



From an engraving 



