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1812 marries Louisa Amelia LeDoux, returns to U.S. be minister for congregation in Salem, North Carolina
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As you can see from the list below, Schweinitz published on plants as well as fungi, and when he died, his herbarium contained 23,000 species of phanerogamic plants. And they weren't his main interest! Schweinitz is sort of a transitional figure in mycology, as his first major publication is before Fries, while his second is after. It would be interesting to see what proportion of his new names come from each work. In any case, he is the first major American mycologist, by a long shot - - both in time and in quality. Many of our "basic" American fungi were named by him.
This work covers 1130 taxa, of which 127 are new species declared by Schweinitz. This was the largest work on fungi at the time.
Schweinitz described 78 species of Hepatica (liverworts), in an attempt to get more people interested in them
Schweinitz's monumental achievement, recording 3098 species of North American fungi.
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