> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 674](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33068916) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/5065-1) LSID 5065-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15030481) QID Q15030481 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### 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.