Gill. C. C. Gillet, a French Botanist.
Herbst The late Dr. William Herbst, Trexlertown, Pa., an authority on Mycology.
Hoffn. Hoffman, a German Mycologist.
Holmsk. Theodor Holmskiold, a Danish Mycologist, 1732-1794.
Huds. William Hudson, an eminent English Botanist, 1730-1795.
Jung. Franz W. Junghuhn, a prominent German Botanist, 1812-1864.
Kauff. Dr. C. H. Kauffman, Botanical Department Michigan University.
Lasch William Lasch, a German Mycologist.
Lenz Harald Othmar Lenz, a German Botanist.
Lk. Heinrich Friedrich Link, a prominent German Mycologist.
Lloyd C. G. Lloyd, Cincinnati, Ohio, one of the finest mycologists of the present day.
Lev. Joseph Henri Leveille, a French Mycologist.
Let. Jean Baptiste Louis Letellier, a French Mycologist.
L. or Linn. Carl von Linnaeus, a Swedish Botanist who is the author of the Linnaean cla.s.sification and who adopted the binomial nomenclature, viz.: the generic name which is the substantive, or a word used as such, and the specific name, an adjective, 1707-1778.
Ma.s.s. George Ma.s.see, an English Botanist, Princ.i.p.al a.s.sistant, Royal Gardens, Kew; author of several works on Mycology.
Morg. Prof. A. P. Morgan, Preston, Ohio, a well-known Botanist and an authority on Mycology.
Mont. Montagne, a French Botanist and Mycologist.
Pk. Dr. Charles Horton Peck, the State Botanist of New York; an eminent authority on Mycology and Botany generally.
Pers. Christian Hendrik Persoon, a German Botanist, 1755-1837.
Rav. W. H. Ravenel, leading Mycologist of South Carolina.
Roze Ernest Roze, a French Mycologist.
Schw. Rev. Louis David de Schweinitz, Bethlehem, Pa., a pioneer American Mycologist.
Schroet. Schroeter, a German Botanist and Mycologist.
Schaeff. Jacobi C. Schaeffer, a German Botanist, 1718-1790.
Scop. Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, an Italian Botanist, 1725-1788.
Schum. Schumacher, a German Botanist and Mycologist.
Sacc. P. A. Saccardo, an Italian Botanist, the author of Sylloge Fungorum, a work of several volumes written in Latin, describing over forty thousand species.
Sow. James Sowerby, an English Botanist.
Vahl. Martin Vahl, a Norwegian Botanist, 1749-1804.
Vitt. Carlo Vittadini, an Italian Mycologist.
Wulf. Wulfen, a German Botanist.
REFERENCES CONSULTED.
Atkinson"s Studies of American Fungi.
Cooke"s Hand-book of British Fungi.
Ma.s.see"s European Fungus Flora.
McIlvaine"s One Thousand American Fungi.
Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms--W. H. Gibson.
Herbst"s Fungal Flora of the Lehigh Valley.
Berkeley"s Outlines of British Fungology.
The Mushroom Book--Nina L. Marshall.
Morgan"s North American Fungi.
Lloyd"s Mycological Notes.