Critical Review of the Mycological System

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As this discipline grows daily, I would prefer to leave a new edition as a posthumous work. However, in order for the first edition to revive in use and thus to consult both the wishes of the primary mycologists and the advantage of the publisher of the Systema Mycologicum, I have written this Epicrisis Critical Review, in which an account is given of all the most recent studies, as far as they have become known to me. Otherwise, I have cited only the primary source of the species, new synonyms, and the Systema Mycologicum, in which one can see the remaining synonyms, descriptions, and observations regarding the species received therein. Out of a desire for brevity, I have omitted not only those things which have been fully exposed both in the Systema Mycologicum and in my other writings as well as among the cited authors (older synonyms have only been repeated when they were disputed by recent authors), but also the descriptions of new species, which are to be divulged in another place. Because of the abundance of new species, however, it was necessary to give new diagnoses for all, except for the Tremellinis jelly fungi. Nothing else is presented here that has not been explored by the author himself or appeared clear to him from proven authors. I have observed the vast majority of species alive every year; the authentic specimens of all (except those of Secretan)

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