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The fungus herbarium of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CM), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Fungi from the Carnegie Museum Herbarium (CM) were transferred to the New York Botanical Garden (NY) in 1981. Comprising approximately 41,000 specimens, this collection is most noteworthy for its extensive coverage of the mycota of western Pennsylvania. Biographical sketches are given of D. R. Sumstine, L. K. Henry, M. B. Knauz Overholts, and O. E. Jennings, the four main regional collectors. Two appendices are included: the first indexes the type specimens deposited in the fungus herbarium (excluding those types distributed in fungi exsiccati sets), and the second lists the sources of duplicate fungus specimens acquired by CM.

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  1. Andrew S. Methven

    Present address: Department of Botany, University of Tennessee, 37916, Knoxville, TN

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    Barbara M. Thiers

  2. Department of Biological Sciences, San Francisco State University, 94132, San Francisco, CA

    Dennis Desjardin & Andrew S. Methven

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Thiers, B.M., Desjardin, D. & Methven, A.S. The fungus herbarium of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CM), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Brittonia 35, 367–373 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02811130

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