NOTE 



It is customary, when writing the name of a fungus for scien- 

 tific purposes, to append the name of the author who first 

 published the appellation. The author's name, for convenience, 

 may be abbreviated. A list of such abbreviations as are used 

 in this book is given below. 



Batsch. 



Berk. 



Bosc. 



Bull. 

 Burnap. 

 Buxb. 

 D. C. 



Desv. 



Ellis. 



Fr. 



HOLMSK. 



Huds. 



Lasch. 



Lk. 



L. or Linn. 



Augustus Batsch (i 761-1802), German botanist. 



Rev. Miles Joseph Berkeley. 



Louis Bosc (1759-1828), one of the first collectors 

 of fungi in the United States. 



Pierre Bulliard, 1 742-1 793. 



Charles E. Burnap, an American student. 



Johann Christian Buxbaum, 1 693-1 750. 



Augustin Pyrame de Candolle (1778-1841), a promi- 

 nent Swiss botanist. 



Nicaise Augustin Desvaux, French botanist, 1784- 

 1856. 



J. B. Ellis. Mr. Ellis is a mycologist in the United 

 States. The Ellis collection of fungi contains the 

 largest number of types of any collection of Ameri- 

 can fungi in existence. It is deposited in the 

 museum of the New York Botanical Garden. 



Elias Magnus Fries (1 794-1 87S), a Swedish botanist, 

 who laid the foundations for the study of the 

 Basidiomycetes. 



Theodor Holmskiold (1732- 1794), a Danish botanist. 



William Hudson (1730- 1793), an English botanist. 



Wilhelm Lasch (1 786-1863), a German botanist. 



Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767-1851), a German 

 botanist. 



Carl von Linnaeus ( 1 707-1778), a Swedish botanist, 

 who revised the principles of classification and 

 introduced what is known as the binomial no- 

 menclature. According to his method, the name 

 of a plant is reduced to two words : the first, or 

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