Author : Edward Angus Burt
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780366890996
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Thelephoraceae of North America by : Edward Angus Burt
Download or read book The Thelephoraceae of North America written by Edward Angus Burt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-19 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Thelephoraceae of North America: Nos. 1-10 Early in the work it became apparent that the diagnoses of known species of resupinate Thelephomceaa had failed utterly to enable the leading working mycologists of any country to recog nize with certainty in the species about them those described in other countries, or those described for their own country by earlier students. The truth of this statement is shown by the errors and confusion in names of the common species which have been distributed in exsiccati, by the fact that in the large herbaria several different species are likely to bear the same specific name on the same or successive sheets, and by the vastly more important fact that the masters of mycology of each age, when relying wholly on the diagnoses published by their contemporaries or predecessors, have described as new species common and conspicuous resupinate fungi which had been accurately described by immediate contemporaries or prede cessors, and in very many cases just as accurately by still earlier students. All the mycologists concerned in these redescriptions have been earnest strivers after truth, I am convinced, and would have preferred to employ the earlier names for their plants, could they have known that those earlier names referred with certainty to their specimens. All these people were relying, as was the usage of their time, on a few words of published description in some other than their mother tongue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
