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NORTH AMERICAN FUNGI. 
Porter, Thomas Conrad. Alexandria, Hunt- 
ingdon Co., Penn., 22 Jan. 1822. 
—— and Coulter, J. M. 
503. Synopsis of the flora of Colorado. Mise. 
Publ. no. 4, Dept. Interior, U. S. Geol. and Geog. 
¥F. V. Hayden, U. S. 
Survey of the Territories. 
pp. 180. Washington, 
Geologist, in charge. 8° 
1874. 
On pp. 163, 164, is an account of 8 fungi by C. H. Peck, two 
of them described as new. 
Prentiss, Albert Nelson. 
22 May, 1836. 
503%. Puff-balls and their kindred. 
Era, IV. 179-181. 8 Dec. 1871. 
A popular account of fungi, with description of a large 
specimen of Lycoperdon giganteum. 
503). Destruction of obnoxious insects 
by means of fungoid growths. Am. Nat. XIV. 
575-581, 630-635. Aug., Sept. 1880. 
Report on a number of experiments with regard to the 
action of yeast in destroying insects, from which the author 
concludes that yeast has very little value as a means for de- 
stroying insects. Substance of this paper also given in Am. 
Entomol. and Bot. TL. 269. 
Prillieux, Edouard Ernest. Paris, 11 Jan. 1829. 
504. Quelques mots sur Je rot des vignes Améri- 
caines et l’anthracnose des vignes frangaises. Bull. 
Soc. Bot. France, XXVII. 34-38. 13 Feb. 1880. 
Includes notes on Phoma l idered by the auth 
to be distinct from the fungus of anthracnose. The eg ys is 
followed by remarks of Dr. M. Cornu, whose views are differ- 
ent from those of the author. 
505. Cause du rot des raisins en Améri- 
que. Comptes rendus, XCV. 605. 2 Oct. 1882. 
Notes on Peronospora vitivo'a in America, and on the 
trouble caused by a species of Phoma. 
Provancher, L. (Abbé). 
F. von. ‘ 
Rabenhorst, (Gottlieb) Ludwig. Treuen- 
brietzen, 22 March, 1806. Meissen, 24 April, 
1881. See Hepwieia. See Exsiccati in supple- 
ment. See Winter, G. 
Rafinesque-Schmaltz, 
Galata, near Constantinople, 22 Oct. 1783. 
delphia, 1840. See Gzrarp, W. R. 
506. Précis des découvertes et travaux somi- 
ologiques de Mr. C. S. Rafinesque-Schmaltz entre 
1800 et, 1814, ou choix raisonné de ses principales 
découvertes en zoologie et en botanique pour 
servir d’introduction a ses ouvrages futurs. 12% 
pp. 65. Palermo. 1814. 
On pp. 49-52 are descriptions of 18 species of fungi and five 
new genera from the United States, principally Delaware and 
New Jersey. 
507. Florula Ludoviciana; or, a flora of 
the State of Louisiana. Translated, revised, and 
improved from the French of C. C. Robin, by C. 
S. Rafinesque. 8° pp. 178. New York. 1817. 
- Onp. 12 isa notice of 7 fangi taken ostensibly from work 
of C. C. Robin, see no. 532, one of them called a new species, 
Morchella odorata. 
508. _.. Prodrome des nouveaux genres de 
plantes observés en 1817 et 1818 dans Vintérieur 
des Etats-Unis d’Amérique. Isis, 1820, part 1, 
236-244. - 
Has on p. 243 descriptions of three new genera of fungi, 
Rimell ad and @ laria, from the United 
Cazenovia, N. Y., 
Cornell 
See THuEmen, 
Constantin Samuel 
+Phila. 
States. 
509. —— Medical Flora, or manual of the 
medical botany of the United States of North 
America, containing a selection of above 100 
figures and descriptions of medical plants, with 
their names, qualities, properties, history, etc., 
and notes or remarks on nearly 500 equivalent 
substitutes. 8% Philadelphia. Vol. I. pp. 268 
pl. 52. 1828.— Vol. II. pp. 276, pl. 48. 1830. 
In volume II. references to Agaricus, Amanita, Boletus, 
etc., of no value. i 
Rau, Eugene Abraham. Bethlehem, Pa., 
22 July, 1848. 
510. A new Phallus. Bot. Gaz. VIII. 223, 224. 
Pl. 4. May, 1883. 
Account of a species found at Bethlehem, Pa., with a de- 
scription in Latin of Phallus togatus by Kalchbrenner. See 
nos. 280 and 375. 
Ravaz, L. See Vrata, P. 
Ravenel, Henry William. St. John’s Parish, 
Berkley Co., 8. C.,19 May, 1814. See BERKELEY, 
M. J. See Coors, M. C. See Porcuer, F. P. 
See TuvEmMEN vonF. See Exsiccat1in supplement. 
511. —— Contributions to the cryptogamic 
botany of South Carolina. Med. Jowr. and Rev. 
Charleston, IV. 428-433. July, 1849.—V. 324- 
327. May, 1850. — VI. 190-199. March, 1851. 
Part 1 has mosses and hepatics, part 2 lichens, and part 3 
fungi. A list of 169 Hymenomycetes, with habitats and notes 
in some cases on edible qualities. In a foot-note is an account 
of the fairy rings of Agaricus Achimenes, B. and C. 
512, —— Report on the fungiof Texas. Rept. 
Commissioner Agr. on diseases of Cattle in United 
States. 4% pp. 171-174. Washington. 1871. 
General account of fungi collected in Texas, with statistics 
of fungi of that region. 
513. _A list of the more common native 
and naturalized plants of South Carolina. In 
South Carolina. Resowrces and Population, Insti- 
tutions and Industries. Published by the State 
Board of Agriculture of South Carolina. 8° pp. 
312-359. Charleston. 1883. 
On pp. 353-356 is a list of 35 species of fungi, of which the 
popular arid scientific names are given, but no descriptions. 
N. B. A paper on ‘Edible Mushrooms of this country’ 
was read by this author before the Aiken Vine-Growing and 
Hort. Ass. about the year 1862-3, and was printed in the 
newspapers of Charleston. The paper gave a popular ac- 
count of the mode of identi fying common edible mushrooms, 
Agaricus campestris, A. amygdalinus, and some others. 
Ray, John. Black Notley, Eng., 29 Nov. 1628. 
17 Jan. 1705. 
513°. Historia Plantarum, etc. f% Vol. I- 
III. London. 1686-1704. 
Title here given in an abbreviated form. The only refer- 
ences to United States fungi in this work are the species 
collected by J. Banister in Virginia in 1680, which were.pre- 
viously described and figured by Plukenet, q. v. The Pilo- 
bolus mentioned in title 498 is first given by Ray in vol. II. 
1926, and is the only fangus in the list of species collected by 
Banister. The other fungi of Banister are in the third volume 
of Ray, pp. 20, 25. 
Rees, Max. : 
514. Die rostpilzformen der deutschen Coni- 
feren zusammengestelit und beschrieben von Dr. 
Max Rees. 4° pp. 70. Pl. 2. Halle. 1869. 
Extr. Abhandl. Naturf. Gesells. Halle, XI. 49-118. 
Pl. 1,2. 1870. 
Has a note on Gymnosporangium macropus. 
Rehm, Heinrich. Ederheim near Nérdlingen, Ba- 
varia, 20 Oct. 1828. See ExstccarT1 in supplement 
515. Note on Peziza calycina, Schum. Grev. 
IV. 169. June, 1876. 
Includes a description of a new species, Peziza Ellisiana, 
sent from New Jersey by J. B. Ellis. See no. 118 
516. Bemerkungen iiber (einige) Ascomy- 
ceten. Hedwigia, XVIII. 113-115, Aug. 1879; 
161-169, Nov. 1879. —XXI. 130-139, Sept. 1882; 
145-148, Oct. 1882. 
Part 1 has no American references. Part 2, p. 168, has a 
note on Didymosphacria grumata from New Jersey. Part 3 
has notes on 19 American species, most of them from Ellis’s 
North American Fungi. Part 4, p. 146, has a note on Val- 
saria cincta, also from Ellis. et 
