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tions, botanically accurate though they be, are not much more 

 than colored diagrams, with little of the appearance of nature 

 about them. Other illustrations by this most eminent student of 

 our species are scattered through the reports of the New York 

 State Museum. A few plates have also been published by Pro- 

 fessor Murrill, of the New York Botanical Garden (1909c), and 

 by Miss Burlingham (1921), all in the journal Mycologia. 



Mcllvaine's sketches in his " One Thousand American Fungi " 

 (1900c) fall far short of even a half-respectable standard; and 

 the few colored plates in Professor Atkinson's book (1900a) are 

 so bad that they were omitted from the later editions. 



Dr. Harkness' four colored plates in his paper on the Cali- 

 fornian hypogaeous fungi (1899b) must not be omitted, as well 

 as my own plates, published last year in the National Geographic 

 Magazine (1920a, and PL 31 in this paper). 



This short enumeration about completes the list of American 

 colored figures of fungi to be found in our publications. Com- 

 pared with the output of Europe, 7 it is negligible. But there is a 

 ray of hope; Dr. Kelly has asked me to revise, and supply with 

 colored illustrations, Prof. Peck's monograph of the genus Boletus 

 (1889), the revision to stand as a memorial of this great American 

 botanist. I trust that it may be printed. 



Baltimore, Md. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES 



PI. 24. Dr. Seger's " Anthropomorphus," described in 1671. 



PI. 25. " The Cannon." Etching on iron by Albrecht Diirer. 



PI. 26. (A) Photographic enlargement (about 7 diameters) of the helio- 

 gravure reproduction shown in the upper left corner (a). A hand-lens exam- 

 ination of a heliographic reproduction of a photograph is thus instructive to 

 the systematic mycologist, it being possible to determine whether the dimidiate 

 gills are attached to their longer neighbors, or not. The opposite is true of 

 the reproduction (B) of the half-tone figure (b). 



PI. 27. Lepiota procera (Scop.) Pers. Photographic reproduction from the 

 colored lithographic figure in Istvanffi's Etudes et commentaires sur le code 

 de l'fiscluse, pi. 58. The original of this figure was painted during the latter 

 part of the sixteenth century, about 1580. See plate 31. 



PI. 28. {A) " Locellus," in Sterbeeck's " Theatrum Fungorum," pi. 15. 

 at " C." (B) Underwoodia columnaris Peck. After E. T. Harper. 



7 See Laplanche (1894^) and Traverso (1910/) for two indexes of the 

 available, published illustrations of fungi. 



