11b 
JUUKNAL OF MYCOLOGY. 
[Vor.. II, 
and fungi, given under liis name in the “Catalogue of Plantsgkowing 
WITHOUT CULTIVATION WITHIlSr THIRTY MILES OF AMHERST COLLEGE,’’ 
by Edw. Tuckermaii and Charles C. Erost, published at Amherst, by Edw. 
Nelson, in 1875. This is an exhaustive catalogue, with habitats, but 
without localities, so far as Mr. Frost’s list is concerned. After a careful 
scrutiny of this, the following facts are obtained : 
4T 
7 
1190 
586 
species. 
70 
*4 
160 
44 
44 
oy 
9 
44 
»06 
4 » 
No. ot Species of Musci enumerated.192 
No. of Species of Hepaticae enumerated .... 
No. of Species of Characese . 
No. of Species of Fungi (excluding Lichens) 
Looking over the Fungi proper, it is found that: 
The Basidiomycetes number. 
The Gasteromycetes (these include 46 Myxomycetes) number 
The Coniomycetes (these include 80 Uredineae and 8 Ustilag- 
inm) number. 
The Hyphomycetes number. 
The Physomycetes number . 
The Ascomycetes (these include 35 Erysiphei) 
The species with the authorship of “Frost” are sixty in number. 
Of these, twenty are in the genus Boletus^ which has only forty-six species 
enumerated in the catalogue. In the Agaracmi, he described thirty-two 
species, of which Bussula included nine species, Lactarius nine and Cla~ 
varia three species. It will be seen that his original work was almost 
exclusively among the fleshy fungi. A copy of this catalogue, remaining 
in his collection, has several species added, but as only flve years elapsed 
before his death, the number is not great. It will be at once seen by any 
botanist that the most valuable monument of Mr. Frost’s work is his 
herbarium and collections of plants generally ; and this is the monument 
most likely to perish, unless care is taken at an early day to prevent it. 
These collections ought to be put in order by some competent crypto- 
gamic botanist, and then they should be placed where they would receive 
permanent care and be available for reference, if needed. No doubt some 
one of the centers of botanical study in this country would be the most 
suitable place, although it woitld not be inappropriate to deposit them in 
some sate alcove of the handsome public library now building at Brattle- 
boro’, provided they could always have proper care in the future. 
Although there are not a large number ot type specimens in Mr. Frost’s 
collection, still the collection is too valuable to lose. Any one who knows 
how valuable are now the historical or family papers of the first and 
second century after the settlement of our country, to the- investigator 
of any special topic, and also, how many of these were lost through 
neglect, can readily appreciate the value, both seen and unanticipated, 
which such local accumulations as tliese of (1. Frost may have many 
years hence. 
In closing, I wish to acknowledge the great kindness of Mr. Wells S. 
Frost, of Brattleboro’, son of the botanist, in giving me information and 
free access to the collections and books ; also, indebtedness to the notes 
of Rev. Lucius Holmes, contributed at the time of Mr. Frost’s death to 
a current periodical. 
