Catalog of Massee Type Specimens

[Barbara M. Thiers]

     The New York Botanical Garden has cataloged its holding of fungal
     types described by George Massee (1850-1917).  This catalog is now
     available for searching on the World Wide Web
     (http://www.nybg.org/bsci/hcol/mass/).   The catalog contains 255
     records and includes Massee types as well as other types obtained from
     Massee when a portion of his herbarium was sold to the New York
     Botanical Garden in 1907.

     Massee, a British mycologist, was the Keeper of Lower Cryptogams at
     the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.  He described many fungi, in a variety
     of groups, from all over the world.  He also prepared watercolor
     paintings of many of his new species.  The rationale for which
     specimens were sent to New York and which were kept at Kew is unclear.
     This catalog is designed to be a finding aid for mycologists
     searching for types of species described by Massee.

     In addition to the Massee catalog, the New York Botanical Garden
     offers searchable catalogs of types of rust fungi, macrofungi of the
     world (includes holdings of Boletaceae, Amanitaceae and Lactarius),
     and fungi of Costa Rica (primarily Agaricales).