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Excerpt from Report of the State Botanist on Edible Fungi of New York, 1895-99 When the young plant first appears above the surface Of the ground, the cap is oval or somewhat egg-shaped, but it soon becomes more expanded and finally nearly flat. In wet weather the margin sometimes curves upward, making the cap appear concave above or centrally depressed. The warts have a soft or somewhat woolly texture and are easily separable from the cap. In the European plant they are represented as sometimes entirely absent. In the American plant-they are quite persistent on the center Of the cap, though they sometimes disappear from the thin plicate striate mar gin. They are represented in the figure Of the species given by Fries in his cones as paler than the cap, but in our plant they are as dark as the cap or sometimes even darker. The cap is grayish brown or mouse color, some times becoming paler or drab on the margin. The gills are white or whitish, free from the stem and broader as they approach the margin of the cap. The intervening Short ones are truncated at the inner extremity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Charles Horton Peck was born on March 30, 1833 in Sand Lake, Rensselaer County, New York, United States (now called Averill Park). He was the son of Joel B. and Pamelia (Horton) Peck. He was of English descent, the first member of the family to come to America being Henry Peck, who settled at New Haven, Connecticut, in 1638.
As a boy, Charles Horton Peck helped in his father's sawmill and attended the proverbial log schoolhouse of the settlement. His interest in plants was kindled by fortunate circumstances during the period of his studies at the State Normal School in Albany, where he pursued the special study of botany before it was included in the curriculum. Upon graduation in 1852 Peck returned to the home farm, devoting all of his spare time to the collecting and analyzing of plants. Charles Horton Peck prepared for college at Sand Lake Collegiate Institute, and in 1855 entered Union College, from which he was graduated with high honors in 1859. In 1862 Peck received the A. M. degree from Union College.
From 1859 to 1861 Charles Horton Peck taught the classics, mathematics, and botany at the Collegiate Institute and then taught for the following three years at the Albany Classical Institute. His interests centered in moss study at this time and through the friendship of George W. Clinton, himself a distinguished botanist, he was appointed in 1867 to the staff of the New York State Cabinet of Natural History. His report of January 1, 1868, to the regents of the University of the State of New York is the first of a notable series which, appearing annually and dealing with many phases of botanical study, came to be known as "Peck's Reports, " and ended only with his physical disability in 1912. In 1883, immediately following the passage of a law establishing the office of state botanist, he was appointed formally to that position. The death of his wife in February 1912, and his own serious illness within a year thereafter, prompted him to resign in 1913, but not until January 1915 was his resignation accepted.
As state botanist for nearly half a century, Peck naturally gave much attention to botanical exploration, the building up of a state herbarium, and the publication of taxonomic and distributional studies of nearly all groups of plants as represented in the state of New York. He is chiefly celebrated, however, for his long-continued and acute investigations upon the fungus flora of the United States and Canada, in the course of which he described about 2, 500 species as new to science. His work was essentially that of a pioneer, only a very few having preceded him in the field of American mycology. The forty-six annual reports are thus devoted largely to the description of new fungi in many different groups, but they are of equal importance, at least, for the series of synoptical studies of most of the large and important genera of fleshy fungi known as agarics, in which the species are described, keyed, and freely illustrated, largely on the basis of specimens collected through Peck's own indefatigable field-work. Other groups than agarics (e. g. Boletaceae, Hydnaceae, Clavariaceae) were similarly treated.
A self-trained scientist, Peck brought to these studies a highly analytical mind and keen powers of clear description, and, undaunted by lack of proper support and facilities he succeeded in producing an enormous amount of discriminating work. In the absence of any comprehensive general treatise upon the fungi of North America, his contributions were of incalculable value to younger American students, with whom he stood in peculiarly friendly relation through long correspondence and exchange of specimens. His studies in mycology, which are exceeded in importance by those of no other American student, are regarded as basic. Charles Horton Peck died at Menands, New York, in his eighty-fifth year on July 11, 1917.
Charles Horton Peck was best known as leading American mycologist. He was the New York State Botanist. He described over 2700 species of North American fungi. As a memorial to his life and services, an exhibit of fifty-seven exquisite models of edible and poisonous mushrooms has been installed in the State Museum at Albany, New York.
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Charles Horton Peck had a strong religious convictions and believed in a simple and direct theory of the world being governed by one creator.
Charles Horton Peck was a Republican, but he would vote for the best candidate no matter what group the candidate belonged to. His first vote was for John C. Fremont who won the elections against James Buchanan in 1856.
Charles Horrton Peck was a man who loved fruits and vegetables, accustomed to physical training and therefore he was lean and fit. He avoided cursing, smoking tobacco, and drinking alcohol and was an early riser.
On April 10, 1861, Charles Horton Peck married Mary C. Sliter, also of Rensselaer County, New York. They had two children.
