NOTE 
It is customary, when writing the name of a fungus for 
scientific 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. 
A. & S. 
BATSCH. 
BERK. 
B. & C. 
Bosc. 
BULL. 
BurnaP. 
Buxs. 
D. C. 
Desv. 
ELLs. 
Fr. 
HoLmsk. 
Hubs. 
Lascn. 
Lk. 
L. or Linn, 
Albertini and Schweinitz. 
Augustus Batsch (1761-1802), German botanist. 
Rev. Miles Joseph Berkeley. 
Berkeley and Curtis. 
Louis Bosc (1759-1828), one of the first collectors 
of fungi in the United States. 
Pierre Bulliard, 1742-1793. 
Charles E. Burnap, an American student. 
Johann Christian Buxbaum, 1693-1730. 
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 (1794-1878), 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 (1786-1863), a German botanist. 
Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767-1851), a German 
botanist. 
Carl von Linneus (1707-1778), 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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