Charles Horton Peck
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Sand Lake, New York
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, died 1917 in Albany, New York
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, was an American mycologist of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the New York State Botanist from 1867 to 1915, a period in which he described over 2700 species of North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
n fungi.
Species of mushroom he described include:
- Agaricus abruptibulbusAgaricus abruptibulbusAgaricus abruptibulbus is a species of mushroom in the genus Agaricus. It is commonly known as the abruptly-bulbous agaricus or the flat-bulb mushroom. First described by the mycologist Charles Horton Peck, this bulbous-stemmed edible species smells slightly of anise, and turns yellow when bruised...
- Agaricus abscondens
- Agaricus abundans
- Agaricus acericola
- Agaricus adirondackensis
- Agaricus admirabilis
- Agaricus aggericola
- Agaricus albissimus
- Agaricus albocrenulatus
- Agaricus alboflavidus
- Agaricus albogriseus
- Agaricus alboides
- Agaricus alluviinus
- Agaricus amabilipes
- Agaricus amabillissimius
- Agaricus silvicolaAgaricus silvicolaAgaricus silvicola, also known as the Wood Mushroom is a species of Agaricus mushroom related to the button mushroom.- Description :...
- Agrocybe acericola
- Agrocybe angusticeps
- Agrocybe arenaria
- Agrocybe edulis
- Agrocybe firma
- Agrocybe howeana
- Agrocybe illicita
- Agrocybe lenticeps
- Agrocybe platysperma
- Agrocybe pruinatipes
- Agrocybe sororia
- Agrocybe vermiflua
- Amanita abruptaAmanita abruptaAmanita abrupta, commonly known as the abrupt-bulbed Lepidella, is a species of fungus in the Amanitaceae family of mushrooms. Named for the characteristic shape of its fruit bodies, this white Amanita has a slender stem, a cap covered with conical white warts, and an "abruptly enlarged" swollen base...
- Amanita bivolvata
- Amanita brunnescensAmanita brunnescensAmanita brunnescens, also known as the brown American star-footed amanita or cleft-footed amanita is a native North American mushroom of the large genus Amanita. Originally presumed to be Amanita phalloides by renowned American mycologist Charles Horton Peck it was described and named by G. F....
- Amanita calyptrata
- Amanita calyptrata var. albescens
- Amanita calyptratoides
- Amanita candida
- Amanita chlorinosma
- Amanita crenulata'
- Amanita elongata
- Amanita frostiana var. frostiana
- Amanita frostiana var. pallidipes
- Amanita glabriceps
- Amanita magnivelarisAmanita magnivelarisAmanita magnivelaris, commonly known as the great felt skirt destroying angel, is a poisonous basidiomycete fungus, one of many in the genus Amanita. Originally described from Ithaca, New York, by Charles Horton Peck, it is found in New York state and southeastern Canada.-See also:*List of Amanita...
- Amanita morrisii
- Amanita multisquamosa
- Amanita muscaria var. alba
- Amanita ocreataAmanita ocreataAmanita ocreata, commonly known as the death angel, destroying angel, angel of death or more precisely Western North American destroying angel, is a deadly poisonous basidiomycete fungus, one of many in the genus Amanita. Occurring in the Pacific Northwest and California floristic provinces of...
- Amanita parcivolvata
- Amanita pellucidula (along with Banning)
- Amanita phalloides var. striatula
- Amanita placomyces
- Amanita prairiicola
- Amanita praticola
- Amanita radicata
- Amanita spreta
- Amanita submaculata
- Amanita velosaAmanita velosaAmanita velosa is an edible species of agaric found in California, as well as Oregon and Baja California.-Description and classification:...
- Amanita volvata
- Boletus auriporus
- Boletus ornatipes
- Boletus vermiculosus
- Clitocybe ectypoides
- Cortinarius corrugatus
- Drudeola sarraceniae (along with Clinton)
- Gymnopilus luteusGymnopilus luteusGymnopilus luteus also called the "Yellow Gymnopilus" is a widely distributed mushroom of the Eastern United States, it contains the hallucinogens psilocybin and psilocin. Often mistaken for Gymnopilus junonius.-Description:...
- Hygrophorus sordidus
- Hypomyces polyporina
- Inocybe mutata
- Lactarius atroviridi
- Lactarius deceptivusLactarius deceptivusLactarius deceptivus, commonly known as the deceiving milkcap, is a common species of fungus in the Russulaceae family. It is found throughout eastern North America on the ground in coniferous forests near hemlock or deciduous forests near oak, and in oak-dominated forests of Costa Rica...
- Lactarius griseus
- Lactarius rimosellus
- Leccinum rugosiceps
- Leucoagaricus americanusLeucoagaricus americanusLeucoagaricus americanus is a mushroom in the genus Leucoagaricus, native to North America. It was first described by Charles Horton Peck, an American mycologist of the 19th and early 20th centuries, in 2000. It grows in almost all waste places, stumps and grounds...
- Leucoagaricus rubrotinctus
- Peckia clintonii
- Peckiella banningiae
- Peckiella camphorati
- Peckiella hymenii
- Peckiella hymenioides
- Peckiella transformans
- Peckiella xylophila
- Peckifungus entomophilus
- Psathyrella longipes
- Russula abietina
- Russula aeruginascens
- Russula albella
- Russula albidaRussula albidaRussula albida is a fungus said to be edible. It is found in North America under deciduous trees.- External links :*...
- Russula albidulaRussula albidulaRussula albidula is a species of mushroom in the Russula genus. The species, known in the vernacular as the boring white Russula or the whitish brittlegill, is nondescript, with a small or medium dirty white fruit body, and a highly acrid taste...
- Russula anomala
- Russula atropurpureaRussula atropurpureaRussula atropurpurea is an edible member of the Russula genus, that have the common name of brittlegills. It is dark vinaceous or purple, and grows with deciduous, or occasionally coniferous trees...
- Russula balloni
- Russula balloui
- Russula ballouii
- Russula basifurcata
- Russula blackfordae
- Russula brevipesRussula brevipesRussula brevipes is a species of mushroom commonly known as the short-stemmed russula. It is edible, although its quality is improved once parasitised by the ascomycete fungus Hypomyces lactifluorum, transforming it into an edible known as a lobster mushroom.- Taxonomy :Russula brevipes was...
- Russula chamaeleontina var. umbonata
- Russula crustosa
- Russula earlei
- Russula eccentrica
- Russula flaviceps
- Russula foetentula
- Russula granulata
- Russula luteobasis
- Russula magnifica
- Russula mariae
- Russula modesta
- Russula nigrescentipes
- Russula nigrodisca
- Russula ochrophylla
- Russula palustris
- Russula pectinatoides
- Russula polyphylla
- Russula pulverulenta
- Russula pusilla
- Russula rubrotincta
- Russula rugulosa
- Russula serissima
- Russula simillima
- Russula sordida
- Russula squalida
- Russula subdepallens
- Russula subsordida
- Russula subvelutina
- Russula uncialis
- Russula unicalis
- Russula ventricosipes
- Russula viridella
- Russula viridipes (along with Banning)
- Suillus punctipes