Excerpt from Fungal Flora of the Lehigh Valley, Pa
Since the year 1834, in which occurred the death of Rev. Lewis David de Schweinitz, sixty-five years ago, nothing has been done in the study of the fungal flora of this fruitful valley. De Schweinitz published several works, and did a large amount of work, naming many new species. In those days all scientific works were published in Latin, and very few took any interest in the study.
It was my intention at first merely to publish a list of my collections, growing in the Lehigh Valley, but thinking it would be of very little benefit to this branch of Botany, I concluded to write out some of the principal characters of the natural orders, etc., getting permission from my friend, Prof. Charles H. Peck, State Botanist of New York, to use his specific characters of new species, which he had the kindness to determine for me. Professor Peck, through his annual reports to the State Museum, and correspondence, was my best teacher for the last twenty years. C. G. Lloyd, of Cincinnati, had the kindness to visit me for a number of years, giving me a fresh stimulus to this fascinating study by his assistance in working out some interesting species. The principal works consulted were: Rev. M J. Berkeley's Outlines of British Fungology; M. C. Cooke's British Fungi: British Fungi by Rev. John Stephenson; The Mycologic Flora of the Miami Valley and North American Fungi, by A. P. Morgan; Ebighaus and Dr. H. Lenz's Schwaemme des Deutschland in German.
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