STUDIES OF THE SCHWEINITZ COLLEC- 

 TIONS OF FUNGI— II 



DISTRIBUTION AND PREVIOUS STUDIES OF 

 AUTHENTIC SPECIMENS 



C. L. Shear and Neil E. Stevens 



Schweinitz is known to have given autograph specimens of 

 fungi to no less than fourteen individuals and herbaria. 1 So far 

 as the writers have been able to determine, the specimens sent 

 to Halsey are no longer extant. The herbarium of Zeyher is said 

 by de Candolle (7, p. 461) to be in the museum of the Grand 

 Duke at Carlsruhe. This collection the writers have not ex- 

 amined and it is uncertain whether the Schweinitz specimens of 

 fungi are there. Only a few of the specimens given to Schwaeg- 

 richen have been found, one having been seen in the herbarium at 

 Strasburg, and a few in Kunze's collection in the herbarium of 

 the University of Leipzic. 



Other collections of fungi distributed by Schweinitz during 

 his lifetime are preserved in the following herbaria : Kew, speci- 

 mens sent to Torrey and Hooker ; Upsala, herbarium of Fries ; 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Collins collection; 

 Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, herbarium of Greville ; Paris 

 Museum, herbarium of Brongniart ; Vienna, herbarium of 

 Jacquin; Berlin, herbaria of Link and Ehrenberg; Strasburg, 

 herbarium of Nees von Esenbeck ; Leipzic, herbarium of Kunze. 



At his death in 1834, Schweinitz's herbarium was left to the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. The Academy 

 recognized the importance of this accession and a short time 

 later published the biographical sketch of Schweinitz by Johnson 

 which has been referred to in the preceding paper. The manner 

 in which the specimens of fungi were arranged at the time they 

 were transfered to the Academy, as well as the manner in which 



1 Studies of the Schweinitz Collections of Fungi — I. Sketch of his Myco- 

 logical Work. Mycologia 4: 191. 1917. 



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