Émile BOUDIER (1828-1920), mycologist from Montmorency, one - Lot 21

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Émile BOUDIER (1828-1920), mycologist from Montmorency, one - Lot 21
Émile BOUDIER (1828-1920), mycologist from Montmorency, one of the world's leading mushroom specialists, co-founder of the Société Mycologique de France, published Icones mycologicae, an atlas of 600 plates in 6 volumes. 34 autograph letters and cards signed to botanist and mycologist Paul Dumée (1849-1930), Meaux. 52 pp. in-8. Montmorency and Blois, 1891-1903. Correspondence entirely devoted to mushrooms and their determination. "I received your letter last night and thank you very much for having sent me the species you consider to be Pleurotus revolutus. We have this form in Montmorency, but I believe it to be only one of the many varieties of Pl. ostreatus, which goes from yellowish to a more or less dark slate color. The blades are not serulate, as Fries says for revolutus, and I have often seen specimens in the same group with lamellae anastomosed at the base or not. The species of this genus are all, as you say, very interesting and often very beautiful, but often also very rare. Your shipment arrived in perfect condition. The very beautiful Collybia velutipes is also beginning to show up in abundance in our region, on many trees, especially acacia, elm, false ebenier, etc. It's a very interesting species. It's a very hienal species, which last year withstood very well the 25° of cold we had [...]".
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