- Charles Horton Peck
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Charles Horton Peck, born March 30, 1833 in Sand Lake, New York, died 1917 in Albany, New York, was an American mycologist of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the New York State Botanist from 1867 to 1915, a period in which he described over 2700 species of North American fungi.[1]
Species of mushroom he described include:
- Agaricus abruptibulbus
- Agaricus abscondens
- Agaricus abundans
- Agaricus acericola
- Agaricus adirondackensis
- Agaricus admirabilis
- Agaricus aggericola
- Agaricus albissimus
- Agaricus albocrenulatus
- Agaricus alboflavidus
- Agaricus albogriseus
- Agaricus alboides
- Agaricus alluviinus
- Agaricus amabilipes
- Agaricus amabillissimius
- Agaricus silvicola
- Agrocybe acericola
- Agrocybe angusticeps
- Agrocybe arenaria
- Agrocybe edulis
- Agrocybe firma
- Agrocybe howeana
- Agrocybe illicita
- Agrocybe lenticeps
- Agrocybe platysperma
- Agrocybe pruinatipes
- Agrocybe sororia
- Agrocybe vermiflua
- Amanita abrupta
- Amanita bivolvata
- Amanita brunnescens
- Amanita calyptrata
- Amanita calyptrata var. albescens
- Amanita calyptratoides
- Amanita candida
- Amanita chlorinosma
- Amanita crenulata'
- Amanita elongata
- Amanita frostiana var. frostiana
- Amanita frostiana var. pallidipes
- Amanita glabriceps
- Amanita magnivelaris
- Amanita morrisii
- Amanita multisquamosa
- Amanita muscaria var. alba
- Amanita ocreata
- Amanita parcivolvata
- Amanita pellucidula (along with Banning)
- Amanita phalloides var. striatula
- Amanita placomyces
- Amanita prairiicola
- Amanita praticola
- Amanita radicata
- Amanita spreta
- Amanita submaculata
- Amanita velosa
- Amanita volvata
- Boletus auriporus
- Boletus ornatipes
- Boletus vermiculosus
- Clitocybe ectypoides
- Cortinarius corrugatus
- Drudeola sarraceniae (along with Clinton)
- Gymnopilus luteus
- Hygrophorus sordidus
- Hypomyces polyporina
- Inocybe mutata
- Lactarius atroviridi
- Lactarius deceptivus
- Lactarius griseus
- Lactarius rimosellus
- Leccinum rugosiceps
- Leucoagaricus americanus
- Leucoagaricus rubrotinctus
- Peckia clintonii
- Peckiella banningiae
- Peckiella camphorati
- Peckiella hymenii
- Peckiella hymenioides
- Peckiella transformans
- Peckiella xylophila
- Peckifungus entomophilus
- Psathyrella longipes
- Russula abietina
- Russula aeruginascens
- Russula albella
- Russula albida
- Russula albidula
- Russula anomala
- Russula atropurpurea
- Russula balloni
- Russula balloui
- Russula ballouii
- Russula basifurcata
- Russula blackfordae
- Russula brevipes
- Russula chamaeleontina var. umbonata
- Russula crustosa
- Russula earlei
- Russula eccentrica
- Russula flaviceps
- Russula foetentula
- Russula granulata
- Russula luteobasis
- Russula magnifica
- Russula mariae
- Russula modesta
- Russula nigrescentipes
- Russula nigrodisca
- Russula ochrophylla
- Russula palustris
- Russula pectinatoides
- Russula polyphylla
- Russula pulverulenta
- Russula pusilla
- Russula rubrotincta
- Russula rugulosa
- Russula serissima
- Russula simillima
- Russula sordida
- Russula squalida
- Russula subdepallens
- Russula subsordida
- Russula subvelutina
- Russula uncialis
- Russula unicalis
- Russula ventricosipes
- Russula viridella
- Russula viridipes (along with Banning)
- Suillus punctipes
References
- "Charles Horton Peck (1833 - 1917)". Historical biographies of mycologists. Illinois Mycological Association. http://www.mushroomthejournal.com/greatlakesdata/Authors/Peck22.html.
- ^ Gilbertson, RL. (1962). Index to species and varieties of fungi described by C.H. Peck from 1909 to 1915. Mycologia 54(5):460-5.
- ^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do.
Categories:- Botanists with author abbreviations
- 1833 births
- 1917 deaths
- American mycologists
- Union College (New York) alumni
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