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### Author
Hard, Miron Elisha (1849-1914), American mycologist; superintendent of public instruction at Kirkwood, Mo.
**Abbreviated name**: *Hard* \[standard form in IPNI: *Hard*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Unknown.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 2: 125; BM 6: 433; Kew 2: 580; LS 11198-11202, suppl. 10673; MW p. 47; Stevenson p. 1244 ("Hard").
- Hesler, L. Biogr. Sketches North Amer, mycol. 1975, mss.
#### Handwriting
See frontispiece to *The Mushroom* (1908).
### Publications
##### n.2385. The Mushroom
**Title**
*The Mushroom* /edible and otherwise/ its habitat and its time of growth. With photographic illustrations of nearly all the common species. A guide to the study of mushrooms, with special reference to the edible and poisonous varieties, with a view of opening up to the student of nature a wide field of useful and interesting knowledge. Columbus, Ohio (The Ohio library Co....) s.d. \[1908\]. Oct. (size).
**Abbreviated title**: *Mushroom*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: Nov 1908 (p. x: 11 Jan 1908; Nat. Nov. Jan(1) 1909; see NAF 9: 437), front. (=*flg. 1*), p. \[i\], portr., \[v\]-xii, 1-609, *figs. 1-504* (photogr.), *pl. 1-66.* *Copies*: MICH, MO, NY, Stevenson, US, USDA.