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.