Benjamin Matlack Everhart
Benjamin Matlack Everhart (born April 24, 1818 near West Chester, Pennsylvania , † September 22, 1904 there ) was an American mycologist . Its botanical author abbreviation is “ Everh. "
Life
Everhart's father, William Everhart , was a merchant and a member of the US House of Representatives from 1853 to 1855 . Everhart was educated in private schools in West Chester and made a modest fortune as a merchant doing business in West Chester and Charleston .
From his youth he was a passionate botanist and devoted himself entirely to this passion after he closed his business in 1867. Above all, he dealt with the botany of the cryptogams . In collaboration with Job Bicknell Ellis of New Jersey , he published 50 volumes of The Century of North American Fungi annually , each volume describing 100 species. At the same time he published the Journal of Mycology with William A. Kellerman from Kansas .
His brother James Bowen Everhart was also a member of Congress.
Everhartia
Everhart re-described many types of mushrooms. The genus Everhartia was named in his honor, as were the following species:
- Everhartia hymenuloides Sacc. et Ellis
- Melanconis Everhartii Ellis
- Myrioccoccum Everhartii Ellis & Sacc.
- Ophionectria Everhartii Ellis & Gal.
- Mucronoporus Everhartii Ellis & Gal.
- Pestalozzia Everhartii Sacc. & Syd.
- Sorosporium Everhartii Ellis & Gal.
- Dothiorella Everhartii Sacc. & Syd.
- Gloeosporium Everhartii Sacc. & Syd.
- Myxosporium Everhartii Sacc. & Syd.
- Phyllosticta Everhartii Sacc. & Syd.
- Physalospora Everhartii Sacc. & Syd.
- Septoria Everhartii Sacc. & Syd.
Works (selection)
- with JB Ellis: New Species of Fungi from Various Localities . In: The Journal of Mycology . tape 4 , no. 1 , January 1, 1888, doi : 10.2307 / 3752826 .
- with Job Bicknell Ellis: The North American Pyrenomycetes. A contribution to mycologic botany . Ellis & Everhart, Newfield, NJ 1892, OCLC 1547291 .
- Everhart, Benjamin Matlack . In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . tape 2 : Crane - Grimshaw . D. Appleton and Company, New York 1887, p. 390 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Benjamin Matlack Everhart at the IPNI
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Everhart, Benjamin Matlack |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mycologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1818 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | West Chester , Pennsylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 1904 |
| Place of death | West Chester , Pennsylvania |