of his death. No voice eloquent was raised over his mortal remains, 
obscurely abandoned to the earth, and his coffin was followed to the 
grave by not even the unique and last companion of the poor.” Thus 
lived and died perhaps the greatest genius mycology has ever known, 
for Persoon was a builder. He began the work with practically 
nothing and left a system, of which others have availed themselves 
with much too little acknowledgment. 
SWEDEN. 
The lower part of Sweden, as much as I saw of it during the few 
hours of daylight that I passed through it, seems to be a fertile, 
sparsely wooded country, well cultivated. The portion around Stock¬ 
holm, where this summer I spent three months, is mostly rocks and 
woods. There is but little land suitable for cultivation, the greater 
portion being in natural woodland. Lumbering is an important 
industry, but the Swedes do not as we do, cut and slash everything 
that grows, leaving a desert waste in the trail of the woodcutter They 
select for lumber only such trees as have reached a suitable size, leaving 
the remainder to grow. The soil is usually very scanty, but the 
ground and rocks are covered with a dense carpet of Sphagnum, the 
natural home of Agarics. Sweden is preeminently the Paradise for the 
mycologists. With an abundance of woodland, a cool, moist climate 
such as Agarics like, I think there is no other country where fungi 
grows so abundantly. I was fortunate in being there during an 
unusually wet season. It rained nearly every day, certainly every 
other day, and I could take a basket any day and collect in an hour 
more species new to me than I could possibly photograph, and work 
with the remainder of the day. During three months my list of Agarics 
reached about 450 species and I had no time to work with Polyporii, 
Thelephoracese and other orders which abound. 
L. ROMELL. 
I am under many obligations to Mr. Romell. My time was so 
taken in collection, photography,etc. of specimens that I had little time or 
inclination to study them. I hastily ran over the descriptions in Fries, 
labelled them as I thought they were if I made them out at all, and 
.sent the specimens to Mr. Romell who was kind enough to advise me 
regarding their proper classification. It was surprising to me how 
many species can be satisfactorily determined in Sweden with a little 
work. I believe that one who will go to Sweden for several seasons, 
study the species in the light of Fries look up illustrations, etc., will 
arrive at satisfactory conclusions about almost every plant he finds as 
Mr. Romell has done. Some of the mistakes I made were amusing to 
me, and some were instructive. For instance, when I found a large, 
white Clitocybe which I could not locate, I was surprised to learn 
that Fries had included it in Paxillus (giganteus) for its spores are 
white. The next species I found with the gills readily separable from 
the hymenophore. I looked in vain for it in Paxillus and learned that 
it was Clitocybe gilva. Now, I do not know whether these species 
should be called Clitocybe or Paxillus, but I think they should be put 
m the same genus. 
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