Elias J. Durand

Elias J. Durand (1870 - 1922)

Image of Elias J. Durand from Curtis Gates Lloyd (1898 - 1925) Mycological Notes

Elias J. Durand

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Biography

I assume that this gentleman is a (great?)-grandson of Élie Magloire Durand, as that gentleman's first name is sometimes Americanized as Elias.

Further Sources

John William Harshberger (1899) The Botanists of Philadelphia and Their Works

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Selected Publications

Elias J. Durand (1900) "The classification of the fleshy Pezizineae with reference to the structural characters illustrating the bases of their division into families" in Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 27:9 pp. 463 - 495

with key to genera

Elias J. Durand (1908) "The Geoglossaceae of North America" in Annales Mycologici (Annals of Mycology) 6:5 pp. 387 - 477

E. A. Bessey: "A very valuable work with full descriptions of all species and illustrations of many of them."
To which I would add that this is a taxon in which lack of color in the illustrations makes less of a difference than in most.

Elias J. Durand (1921) "New or noteworthy Geoglossaceae" in Mycologia 13:3 pp. 184 - 187

This is a supplement to his 1908 monograph

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