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JOURNAL OF MYCOLOGY. 
[V'OL. II, 
G2. Pykenula nitida, Acli.—Common on oaks. 
()8. Pyrenula thelena, Tuck.—On Quercus virens. Very tine. 
()4. Py^kenula aggregata, Fee.—Very common on holly. 
()5. Btatora Russula, Mont.— On oaks. 
66. Btatora atro-grtsea, Scliw.—Rare on oaks. 
67. Btatora extgua, Fr.— Rare on oaks. 
68. Btatora hypernula, IS^yl. 
69. Myxwerum SPARSELLUM, Nyl.—On holly. Tropical also. 
70. Opegrapha yulgata, Ach.— Common on oaks. 
71. Strtgula COMPLANATA, Fee.—On leaves of OsmanthuR. 
72. Buellia parasema, Ach.—Very common on oaks. 
78. Glypttts Achartana, Tuck.—On oaks. 
CHARLES CHRISTOPHER FROST. 
BY WM. K. DUDLEY, CORNELL UNIVERSITY. 
B. at Brattleboro\ Vt., Nov. 11, 1S05. 
1). at Brattleboro\ Vt., Mar. 16, 18S0. z 
The pioneers in cryptogamic botany, in America, have been, almost 
without exception, professional or business men, who pursued their 
favorite study as an avocation. In them was developed the scientific 
spirit, probably in greater purity than we can ever expect to see it again. 
The agricultural interests had become neither sufficiently developed nor 
well enough organized to call on these men for a practical application of 
their knowledge; and, as a rule, they were eminently modest men, with¬ 
out even the ordinary desire for fame. The study was pursued by them, 
therefore, purely for a love of the knowledge gained and from an intel¬ 
lectual passion for investigation. Certainly this characterization must 
apply to the life of Mr. C. C. Frost, who described many new species of 
New England fungi, and whose work was always thorough, conscientious 
and highly respected by those who could understand and appreciate its 
value, viz.: his learned friends and correspondents on both sides of the 
Atlantic. Still, he wrote comparatively little ; offers of professorships 
and other honors, coming altogether unsought, were declined ; and he ad¬ 
hered throughout along life to the trade and business to which he was bred. 
Mr. Frost was of an honorable New England parentage. Ilis father. 
James Frost, coming from Massachusetts when ipiite young, opened the 
first shoemaker’s shop in Brattleboro’. The mother of Mr. C. C. Frost 
was Elizabeth, daughter of Col. Stewart, an otticer in the Revolutionary 
war. What is now a large and fiourishing town of exceptional beauty, 
provided with a library and fine school buildings, was, in the early part of 
the present century, but a country village, which had grown up near the 
site of the colonial Fort Bummer, and the ordinary district school fur¬ 
nished the only means of public instruction. ^V^e may suppose young 
Frost spent his winters in ac(|uiring whatever he could from this source. 
