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EXPLANATION OF DATABASE INFORMATIONPublication citations and dates: The proper citation for New York State Museum publications has always been difficult, because of the different titles and dates for each of the several versions of Peck's "Annual Reports". The citation included here is based on the abbreviations in Botanico-Periodicum-Huntianum and the dates are that of the publications distribution as compiled by Barnhart and published by Ronald Petersen in the introduction to the reprint of "Charles Horton Peck, Annual Reports of the State Botanist 1868 - 1912" by L. Vogelenzang, 1980. The dates are often not the ones printed in the publications and definitely not the ones cited in the title of the botanist's reports, but the date of distribution to the botanical audience and therefore the date of the valid publication of the species contained in the reports. Collection Information:The collection information after "Publication:" is cited, verbatim, from the protolog. Type:The following notations may appear on the next two lines. They are to be interpreted as follows: "Holotype (part of)": Indicates the presence of two packages with the same information indicating that they are part of the same gathering. It was common practice for Peck, who pasted specimens onto sheets, to package the remainder as "study material". The connection between them is stronger than that of isotypes as they were separated for practical reasons of storage, not for the purpose of making duplicate specimens. Both packages together are considered to be the holotype. "Holotype missing": Implies nothing more than that the authors were unable to find it. Some types were returned to their collectors by prior agreement. This was the case with some of the specimens collected by E. Bartholomew which are presently at FH. "Herbarium name": Refers to unpublished names used by Peck on his specimens, in his notebooks, and even mentioned in his publications. Many of these "herbarium names" were used for "varieties" which Peck may have applied in a sense different than as a rank of published taxa. Since these specimens have been examined by many taxonomists over the years they are included here with the clear indication that they are not published taxa. "Probable type": This designation is used where there is not sufficient information to link the original description with a specimen in the Peck herbarium. "Possible type": Refers to a specimen that is believed to be a type, but no direct proof is available. "NYS": Indicates that the specimen should be in the New York State Herbarium. "!": Indicates that the specimen was seen by the authors during the project. "K, CUP-D, NY, DAOM, BPI, FH, etc.": Indicates that a specimen or part of a specimen was sent to these herbaria or was reported to the authors as being in one of these herbaria. The information that specimens were sent to NY, for example is based on a list of material sent by Homer House to Frederick Seaver. These specimens have not been examined by the authors and it is only meant as a guide to locate type material.
"Burnham 1912 inventory": is an unpublished, partial inventory of the species in Peck's herbarium started in 1905 and updated in 1912 by Stewart Burnham. The absence of a name from this inventory is taken as an indication that the specimen was not in the herbarium.
About the DatabaseAll of the 2,734 new species and varieties described by Charles Peck and 191 described by Homer House and John Dearness have been included here. So have a number of unpublished, herbarium names, new names, and invalidly published names. In addition to every taxon having an entry, every isotype, syntype, and paratype has a separate entry. There are 3,474 entries currently in the database. Information on the type specimens, their present location, their place of publication, and significant published notes have been included. This listing is as complete as the authors of the database can make it at the present time. Future additions to this site will include images of Peck's drawings of types and types deposited at NYS by other mycologists.
This project is the result of work by John Haines, Lorinda Leonardi, Partha Banerjee, J. Kenneth Dean, and many others who looked up information, entered data, or searched the herbarium for specimens. It was funded, in part, by NSF Grant BSR92-13453.
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