Note 
Mass. 
Morac. 
PK. 
Pers. 
Roze. 
Scuw. 
Scop. 
SCHAFF. 
Sacc. 
VaHL. 
generic, name 1s a substantive or a word used: as a 
substantive ; while the second, or specific, name is 
an adjective. Lactarius is the generic name of 
those fungi dripping milk, and deliciosus (delicious) 
the specific name for one edible species. 
George Massee, an English botanist. 
A. P. Morgan, an American botanist. 
Charles H. Peck (1833- ), the State botanist of 
New York. 
Christian Hendrik Persoon (1755-1837), a German 
botanist. 
Ernest Roze, a French botanist. 
Lewis David de Schweinitz (1780-1834), an Ameri- 
can botanist ; one of the first to make mycology a 
serious study. 
Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723-1788), an Italian 
botanist. 
Jacobi Christiani Scheffer (1718-1790), a German 
botanist. 
P. A. Saccardo (1845- ), an Italian botanist. Sac- 
cardo is the compiler of Sy/loge Fungorum, a work 
in Latin, containing descriptions of over forty thou- 
sand species. It is a most valuable work, as it has 
made accessible to workers throughout the world 
the greater part of the technical descriptive litera- 
ture upon the subject of fungi. 
Martin Vahl (1749-1804), a Norwegian botanist. 
The diacritical marks used in the pronunciation of the Latin 
names indicate the sounds of the same letters in the following 
list : 
4 as in fat ti as in cut 
a “fate ai ‘* cite 
é ‘met y ‘“ myth 
é ‘* meet y ‘“* my 
Y “fin & ‘* gem 
i“ fine g “ get 
6 ‘* not e ‘cat 
6 ‘note ¢ ‘* cent 
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