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Bethlehem bears the following comment, " Est tantum in Pensil- 

 vania, Bethlehem." According to Miss Lehman he reached 

 Salem, North Carolina, November 14, 1812. Here from the first 

 he devoted much time to the study of fungi. 

 In his own words, 2 



" When I first came to Carolina I almost exclusively attached myself to 

 the fungi and formed a considerable collection, now amounting to about 

 1,500 species, entirely from my neighborhood, which still keeps increasing. 

 Of the preservable ones (Fungi) I have with few exceptions preserved speci- 

 mens in my collection. The Agarici, etc., except the Pleuropodes, I excluded 

 entirely, because, although they may be dried, they lose all their character- 

 istics, and I try to make drawings of such as appear new, and at the beginning 

 of the year I have commenced an augmentation in such a manner that I have 

 5 parallel collections as complete as I can obtain specimens in order to send 

 to friends who wish to have them." 



Schweinitz went to Europe again in 1817 (8) to attend a meeting 

 of his denomination at Herrnhut. He took to Europe on this 

 journey 2 



" My catalog of fungi, together with descriptions of all the new species 

 by me established and specimens of them I took with me to Europe on my 

 visit there in the year 1 817-18, and left them in the care of Dr. Schwagerichen 

 at Leipsic to make use of them at his discretion." 



Schweinitz apparently returned to Salem in 1819. Miss Lehman 

 speaks of this European visit as lasting three years, but various 

 letters now preserved in his correspondence indicate that he was 

 in Salem in 1819 and the volume of manuscript notes in the 

 Philadelphia Academy of Science bears the superscription 



Observations in Cryptogamiam 

 Salem Carolina 

 de med. November 1819 



19 Nov. 



It is evident from this that on his return to Salem Schweinitz 

 again took up the study of the flora, especially the fungi. Shortly 

 after his return Schweinitz welcomed a co-worker, also an offi- 

 cer of the Moravian Church. 



" By the Rev. C. F. Denke, lately established in our vicinity, the Botanical 

 Fraternity of North Carolina has obtained a valuable recruit and now forms 

 a Quadro, Rev. Jacob van Vleck, C. F. Denke and myself here, and Professor 

 Mitchell at Chapel Hill."2 



2 Letter to Torrey dated Salem, Stokes Co., N. C, Jan. 24, 1820. 



