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Persoon, Christian Hendrik. 
483. Observations de M. Persoon et eréation du 
nouveau genre Gyrocephalus. Mém. Soc. Linn. 
Paris, III. 75-78. 1825. 
The Tremella stipitata of Bosc referred to @. Carolinensis, | 
"The « Synopsis methodica fungorum”’ of this author forms 
the basis of classification of the earlier American catalogues 
of fungi, as those of Muhlenberg and Torrey, but the work 
itself has no special American references. 
Phillips, William. Presteign, Radnorshire, 
Wales, 4 May, 1822. : : 
484. Discomycetes from California. 
35, 36. Sept. 1876. 
Naines and habitats of 22 species collected by H. W. 
Harkness. 
485. —— 1 
Nevada Mountains. 
89. March, 1877. 
Notices of 66 species collected by H. W. Harkness and J. 
P. Moore, 14 described as new. ‘See Rev. Myc. I. 29. 
486. Fungi of California. Grev. VII. 
20-23. Sept. 1878. 
Notices of 50 species collected by H. W. Harkness and J. 
P. Moore, 10 Discomycetes described as new. 
487. On a new species of Helvella. Trans- 
Linn. Soc. 1. 2 ser. 423.~ Pl. 48. 1880. Read 
5 June, 1879. 
Description and plate of Helvella Californica. 
not paged. See also Jour. Bot. 2-ser. VIII. 287. 
488. A revision of the genus Vibrissea. 
Trans. Linn. Soc. II. 2 ser. 1-10. Pl. 1,2, Read 
20 Jan. 1881. Issued Dec. 1881. 
Includes descriptions of 8 American species, 1 new, V. 
turbinata, with 2 figures. Species given in Hedwigia, 
XXII. 23, .s 
—— and Harkness, H. W. ' 
489. Fungi of California. Bull. Cal. Acad. Sect. 
I. 21-25 (1-5). Feb. 1884. : 
Descriptions of 20 new species and 1 new variety of Dis- 
comycetes collected in 1882. 
490. Discomycetes of 
Grev. XIII. 22, 23. Sept. 1884. 
Descriptions of 10 new species from California, and Phaci- 
dium nigrum, Cooke, from Georgia. 
Fungi of California and the Sierra 
Grev. V. 113-118. Pl. 87- 
Reprint 
California. 
Phippen, George Dean. Salem, Mass., 
18 April, 1815. 
491. Report onthe onion disease. Proc. Essex 
Inst. Salem, Mass. II. 211-215. 1862. Read 
10 July, 1857. 
Includes notes on a disease apparently caused by Urocystis 
Cepulae. 
Pirotta, Romualdo. Pavia, 7 Feb. 1853. 
492. I funghi parassiti dei vitigni. 8° pp. 96. 
Pl. 4. Milan. 1877. Extr. Arch. Trienn. Lab. 
Bot. Critt. Pavia, TI. 129-225. Pl. 10-18. Milan. 
1879. : 
An account, with full descriptions, of all fungi which attack 
species of Vitis, including 37 species of the United States. 
Rev. in Grevillea, VI. 147-150. See no. 133, 
Planchon, J. E. 
492%. Les vignes Américaines, leur culture, leur 
résistance au Phylloxera et leur avenir en Europe. 
82 pp. 240. Montpellier and Paris. 1875. 
Has on p. 20 brief reference to Peronospora viticola ; on 
p- 24 to Hrysiphe mors-uvae and EZ. necatrix; and on p. 54a 
notice of grape-rot. 
Plowright, Charles Bagge. 
land, 8 April, 1849. 
493. Some remarks upon Sphaeria (Gibbera) 
morbosa, Schw. Month. Micros. Jour. XIII. 209, 
210. London. May, 1875. 
Notes on the conidia and ascospores of this species, with 
review of papers on the black knot by C. H. Peck and 
Thomas Taylor. 
King’s Lynn, Eng- 
Grev. V. | 
494. ——- Californian Fungi. Grev. V. 74. 
Dec. 1876. : 
- Notices of 24 species collected by H. W. Harkness, two 
described as new. 
495. Californian Sphaeriae. Grev. VII. 
71-74. Dec. 1878. : 
Notices of 89 species of Pyrenomycetes collected by H. W. 
Harkness and J. P. Moore; 10 described as new. For emen- 
dations of this paper, see Grev. VILL. 73. 
and Harkness, H. W. | 
496. New species of Californian fungi. Bull.’ 
Cal. Acad. Sci. I. 26 (6). Feb. 1884. 
Description of 2 new Wectriae, 
Plukenet, Leonard. 1642. tLondon. 1706. 
497. Phytographia sive stirpium illustriorum et 
minus cognitarum icones, tabulis aeneis summa 
diligentia elaboratae; quarum unaquaeque titulis 
descriptoriis ex notis suis propriis et character- 
isticis desumptis insignita; ab aliis ejusdem sortis 
facile discriminatur. 4% London. Part 1, pref- 
ace, pl. 1-72, 1691. Part 2, pl. 73-113; appendix, 
pl. 114-117; appendix altera, pl. 118-120, 1691. 
Part 3, pl. 121-239; appendix, pl. 240-250, 1692. 
Part 4, pl. 251-328, 1696. 
A collection of uncolored figures, with brief Latin descrip- 
tions at the foot of each plate. See next title. 
498. Almagestum botanicum sive Phyto- 
graphiae Plukenetianae onomasticon methodo 
syntheticd digestum, exhibens stirpium exoticarum, 
rariorum, novarumque nomina, quae descriptionis 
locum supplere possunt. 4° pp. 402. London. 1696. 
Descriptions of plants, including those figured in the Phy- 
tographia, alphabetically arranged. In the Phytographia, 
1. 116, fig. 7, and pl. 184, figs. 4-10, represent fungi from 
irginia, and the descriptions are also given in the Alma- 
estum, pp. 162-164. Pl. 116, fig. 7, is evidently a Pilobolus. 
1, 184, fig. 4, may be a Calocera. Fig. 5 is apparenth 
Mitremyces ; fig. 6, perhaps Cynophallus caninus ; fig. 7 is 
unrecognizable; fig. 8, apa nd Pa en enon cyathiforme 
fig. 9 is a Cyathus, and fig. 10 probably Hericium Hystrix. ° 
Porcher, Francis Peyre. St. John’s, Berkley, 
S.C., 14 Dec. 1825. 
499. On the medicinal and toxicological prop- 
erties of the cryptogamic plants of the United 
States. Trans. Am. Med. Ass. VII. 167-284. 8% 
1854. 
Contains on pp. 211-284 a general account of the properties 
of fungi, followed by a list of species, with their properties, 
compiled from various sources. 
500. The medicinal, poisonous, and diete- 
tic properties of the cryptogamic plants’ of the 
United States. 8° pp. 126. New York. 1884. 
Reprint of last paper, with index. 
501. Resources of the Southern fields and 
forests, medical, economical, and agricultural. 
Being also a medical botany of the Confederate 
States; with practical information on the useful 
properties of the trees, plants, and shrubs. 8% 
pp. 601. Charleston, 1863. 
An account of the edible mushroom and its culture, and 
notes on tuckahoe given on pp. 594-599. 
502. Areference handbook of the medical 
sciences, embracing the entire range of scientific 
and practical medicine and allied science. 4° . 
New York. Wm. Wood & Co. 
In the 3d volume of this work, 1886, is an article, by F. P. 
Porcher, on ‘‘Fungi edible and poisonous,” pp. 264-284, 
figs. 1355-1376, pl. 12,13. A general treatise on edible and 
poisonous species, with illustrations taken from different 
sources, especially Payer and Valmy, followed by a _descrip- 
tive list of Species found in the United States, including a 
letter from II. W. Ravenel,’ 266-267, and numerous extracts 
from an unpublished paper of M. A. Curtis on edible fungi. 
Plate 12 has 15 colored figures of edible species, by ©. I. 
Curtis, not previously published; and pl. 13, 6 figures of 
Poisonous species taken froin Cordier and J. A. Palmer. At 
the end of the article is a list of edible or useful species taken 
from Curtis's Catalogue Plants North Carolina, q. v. 
