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C. F. SCHL'.MACHF.R. 

 From an engraving. 



fungi of Schumacher's were new to science at that time, and his 

 "Enumeratio" is of great importance to mycology in general, as also to 

 the knowledge of the distribution of Danish fungi in particular. No 

 other work gives, at the same time, so much information in this respect 



until, 100 years later, Rostrup published the 

 second volume of his "Vejledning i den dan= 

 ske Flora" (R04a). Rostrup is justified in 

 maintaining that the "Enumeratio" is an 

 original of high repute, and a critical revisal 

 of Schumacher's work would solve many 

 proplems. Several of the descriptions of 

 Schumacher's are up to this day repeated 

 unaltered in manuals etc. without its being 

 quite known whether they are autonomous 

 species which have never been found again, 

 or unrecognizable descriptions of species 

 which are well known from other places. 

 No doubt some of both are to be found; 

 it has also happened that younger authors 

 have wrongly identified fungi which they 

 have found themselves and furnished with new and complete de; 

 scriptions with the species of Schumacher, f. inst. the fungus now 

 called Amphisphaeria papillata (Schum.) de Not. has nothing to do 

 with Schl'macher's Sphaeria papillata. Rostrup has occupied hims 

 self very much with the revisal of Schumacher's "Reliquiae" (R 85 g 

 6i 92 g 69), he has compared Schumacher's text in the "Enumeratio" 



1) with the fungi of the herbarium left by Schumacher which is still 

 found in a comparatively good condition in the Botanical Museum, 



2) with the hand=drawn and ^painted pictorial work "Flora Hafni« 

 ENSis FUNGI deliniati", which is also found in the Museum in three 

 volumes in folio, and 3) with the figures of fungi of the "Flora Das 

 nica" which we know originate from Schumacher, 414 in all. The 

 said pictures of Schumacher's have been submitted to the examination 

 of El. Fries, but that is not the case with Schumacher's herbarium; 

 he has included almost all Schumacher's species in S. M. It often 

 gives a useful hint to see what the clever mycologist thinks about 

 Schumacher's species, I have looked through Schumacher's herbarium, 

 and tried to gather material for the right understanding of all the 

 fungi recorded by Schumacher from all accessible sources, but it does 

 not lie withm the plan of this work to accomplish it consistently for 

 all species. This would better be done in connection with a revisal 

 of the said work of "Vahl, which is, no doubt, of great value and till 

 now quite untouched. 



