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Salem, N. C, a volume of unpublished plates marked Part I of 

 the Fungorum Nieskiensis. In the Library of the Philadelphia 

 Academy there are also numerous loose quarto colored plates of 

 American fungi. 



At the close of the life of Schweinitz published in the Journal 

 of the Elisha Mitchell Society in this note: (4, p. 25) 



" There is also in the possession of his son, Bishop de Schweinitz, of 

 Bethlehem, Pa., a manuscript work entitled : ' Synopsis Fungorum Ameri- 

 canorum qui Ludovicus David de Schweinitz innotuere. Secundum Systema 

 Fries.' This work is different from No. 10 [Synopsis Fungorum in America 

 Boreali media degentium] but whether written before or after is unknown. 

 The manuscript is carefully written in three bound volumes, 8vo : the first 

 having 116 pp., the second 175 pp., the third 100 pp. Some of the pages 

 except the running title on the top are blank and were evidently to be filled 

 out as the researches proceeded." 



This manuscript the writers have been unable to locate. 



Sources of Schweinitz's Herbarium 



On the inside of the title page of the manuscript index to his 

 herbarium in the library of the Philadelphia Academy, Schwei- 

 nitz lists seventy individuals and herbaria as " contributores." 

 Of these the following are mentioned either in the Synopsis fun- 

 gorum in America Boreali (13) or in the Synopsis fungorum 

 Carolinae Superioris (11), as having contributed specimens of 

 fungi; Dr. Baldwin, Zaccheaus Collins, John Le Conte, C. F. 

 Denke, Abram Halsey, Dr. Krampman, Dr. John Torrey, and 

 Jacob Van Vleck. European specimens of fungi were sent by 

 Fries, Burkhardt, Kunze, and Schwaegrichen. 



Undoubtedly, the greater portion of the herbarium was col- 

 lected by Schweinitz himself and a very large number of the 

 specimens come from the regions about Salem, N. C, and Beth- 

 lehem, Pa., at which places most of his life in this country was 

 spent. Miss Lehman remarks that he collected specimens "of 

 every plant within a radius of 30 miles from Salem," and the 

 localities cited by him indicate that his collecting trips about 

 Bethlehem covered an even greater area. Letters to Torrey 

 speak of collecting trips to " The Grandfather Mountains, [N. C] 

 . . . chiefly for Cryptogams " and of wishing to get in connection 



