Descriptive text by Edward Angus Burt. 116 pp. 103 color plates by the Boston Heliotype Printing Company. Louis C.C. Krieger illustrated most of the specimens. (Folio) 35.5x28 cm. (14x11") original green cloth lettered in gilt. First and only edition. One of a total of 500 complete copies published.

William Gilson Farlow (1844-1919) was an American botanist, born in Boston and educated at Harvard, where, after several years of European study, he became adjunct professor of botany in 1874 and professor of cryptogamic botany in 1879. In 1899 he served as president of the American Society of Naturalists; in 1904 as president of the National Academy of Sciences; in 1905 as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and in 1911 as president of the Botanical Society of America. [Harvard University's Farlow Herbarium is named after him. Perhaps the most sumptious American mycology ever published.