The North American Pyrenomycetes: A contribution to Mycological Botany color pictorial dust jacket

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Peter Brown was the court painter to the Prince of Wales

The North American Pyrenomycetes: A contribution to Mycological Botany color pictorial dust jacketPp. iii, 793; 41 tinted lithographed plates by F. W. Anderson with explanatory text leaves. Early tan cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, thick 8vo. Pyrenomycetes are also known as Sordariomycetes is from the Greek the stone of a fruit because of the usually somewhat tough texture of their tissue (from Wiki). The Preface states In the present state of mycological knowledge, the classification of North American Pyrenomycetes is attended with many