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### Author
Krieger, Louis Charles Christopher (1873-1940), American mycological artist, who painted e.g. for Farlow's *Icones farlowianae*, for USDA, and for Howard A. Kelly.
**Abbreviated name**: *L. Krieg.* \[standard form in IPNI: *L.Krieg.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection MICH|MICH]] (with Kelly's library and collections). Botanical paintings made for [[Collection USDA|USDA]] are now at the Smithsonian Institution ([[Collection US|US]], Griffiths' collections); other original fungi paintings (made for Farlow) are at [[Collection FH|FH]]; partly published as *Icones farlowianae*.
*Ref*.: Krieger, L. C. C., Mycologia 14: 13: 311-331, *8 pl*. 1922 ("A sketch of the history of mycological illustration..."); Cat. mycol. libr. Howard A. Kelly, Baltimore 1924, viii, 260 p.
#### Bibliography and biography
Ainsworth p. 299; Barnhart 2: 321; Bossert p. 220; IH 2: 388; Kew 3: 315; LS suppl. 14871-14881; Stevenson p. 1248.
- Anon., Mycologia 28(4): 395. 1936.
- Hesler, L. R., Biogr. Sketches North Amer, mycol. 1975, mss.
- Lloyd, C. G., Mycol. notes 63, 945. 1920 (on some of K's plates published by the Natl. geogr. Mag. Mai 1920).
- Lütjeharms, W. J., Gesch. Mykol. 9. 1936.
- Rogers, D. P., Brief hist, mycol. N. America 32-33. 1977.
- Shaffer, R. L., preface to Dover edition of K's "The mushroom handbook", 1967, p. iii.
- Stevenson, J. A., Mycologia 23(3): 241-247. 1941 (portr., bibl.).
### Publications
##### n.3950. A popular guide to the higher fungi
**Title**
New York State Museum Handbook 11... *A popular guide to the higher fungi* (mushrooms) *of New York State*... Albany (The University of the State of New York) 1935.
**Abbreviated title**: *Pop. guide fungi*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1935, p. \[1\]-538, *fig. 1-126, pl. 1-32*(col.). *Copy*: Stevenson. – For subsequent editions see below, *The mushroom handbook* (3951).
##### n.3951. The mushroom handbook
**Title**
*The mushroom handbook*... illustrated by photographs and drawings by the author. New York (The Macmillan Company) 1936.
**Abbreviated title**: *Mushroom handb.*
**Notes**
*Ed. 1*: Apr 1936 (Mycologia 1 Aug 1936 "recently", New York Times 3 Mai 1936), p. \[i\]-xiii, 11-538, *fig. 1-126, pl. 1-32* (col.). *Copy*: Stevenson. – For an earlier version see 3950, *A popular guide to the higher fungi* (mushrooms) *of New York State*, 1935.
*Ed. 2*: 1967, p. \[i\]-vii, 1-560, *fig. 1-126, pl. 1-32* (col.). *Copy*: US. – "The mushroom handbook by Louis C. C. Krieger... with a new preface and appendix on nomenclatural changes by Robert L. Shaffer \[1929-x\]..." Dover Publications, Inc. New York. Repaginated photographic reproduction.