Andrew Price Morgan     (1836 - 1907)


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Biography

Morgan was a schoolteacher in Dayton Ohio. He had special interest in the Gasteromycetes.

I had a nice picture of him, but I seem to have misplaced it.

Sources

Heinrich Dörfelt & Heike Heklau (1998) Die Geschichte der Mykologie
      (Die Geschichte der Mykologie)


Curtis Gates Lloyd (1898 - 1925) Mycological Notes


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Selected Publications

Andrew Price Morgan (1884) "The North American Geasters" in American Naturalist 18:10 pp. 963 - 970

Andrew Price Morgan (1887) "North American Agarics. -- The sub-genus Amanita" in Journal of Mycology 3:3 pp. 25 - 33
Morgan calls Amanita a sub-genus because he's adhering to the old Friesian system where all gilled mushrooms go into the genus Agaricus, and all the things we think of today as families and genera are sub-genera of Agaricus.

Andrew Price Morgan (1889) "North American Fungi. The Gasteromycetes: 1." in Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History 11 pp. 141 - 149

Andrew Price Morgan (1890) "North American Fungi. The Gasteromycetes: 2." in Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History 12 pp. 8 - 172

Andrew Price Morgan (1891) "North American Fungi. The Gasteromycetes: 3." in Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History 14 pp. 5 - 148

Andrew Price Morgan (1905) "North American Species of Marasmius: 2." in Journal of Mycology 11:6 pp. 233 - 247

Andrew Price Morgan (1905) "North American Species of Marasmius: 1." in Journal of Mycology 11:5 pp. 201 - 212

Andrew Price Morgan (1906) "North American Species of Marasmius: 3." in Journal of Mycology 12:1 pp. 1 - 9

Andrew Price Morgan (1906) "North American Species of Lepiota: 1." in Journal of Mycology 12:4 pp. 154 - 159

Andrew Price Morgan (1906) "North American Species of Marasmius: Descriptive synopsis of Morgan's North American Species of Marasmius" in Journal of Mycology 12:4 pp. 159 - 162
Species key for the rest of the series

Andrew Price Morgan (1906) "North American Species of Lepiota: 2." in Journal of Mycology 12:5 pp. 195 - 203

Andrew Price Morgan (1906) "North American Species of Lepiota: 3." in Journal of Mycology 12:6 pp. 242 - 248

Andrew Price Morgan (1907) "North American Species of Lepiota: 4." in Journal of Mycology 13:1 pp. 1 - 18

Andrew Price Morgan (1907) "North American Species of Agaricaceae, Melanosporae: 3." in Journal of Mycology 13:6 pp. 246 - 255

Andrew Price Morgan (1907) "North American Species of Agaricaceae, Melanosporae: 2." in Journal of Mycology 13:4 pp. 143 - 153

Andrew Price Morgan (1907) "North American Species of Agaricaceae, Melanosporae: 1." in Journal of Mycology 13:2 pp. 53 - 62

Andrew Price Morgan (1908) "North American Species of Agaricaceae, Melanosporae: 5." in Journal of Mycology 14:2 pp. 64 - 75

Andrew Price Morgan (1908) "North American Species of Agaricaceae, Melanosporae: 4." in Journal of Mycology 14:1 pp. 27 - 32


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Species

Astraeus hygrometricus (Persoon) A. P. Morgan
Calvatia cyathiformis (Bosc) A. P. Morgan
Cystoderma granosum (A. P. Morgan) Singer & A. H. Smith
Marasmius delectans A. P. Morgan

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Genera

Astraeus A. P. Morgan
Bovistella A. P. Morgan

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