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### Author
Overholts, Lee Oras (1890-1946), \# American mycologist; A.B. Miami Univ. 1912; Ph.D. St. Louis 1915; instructor in botany at Pennsylvania State College 1915-1917; professor of botany at id. 1917-1946.
**Abbreviated name**: *Overh.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Overh.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection PAC|PAC]] (50.000 fungi; some vase, pl.); other material at [[Collection BPI|BPI]], [[Collection CUP|CUP]], [[Collection COLO|COLO]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection PAC|PAC]], [[Collection TRTC|TRTC]].
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 3: 38; Bossert p. 296; Hawksworth p. 185; Hirsch p. 222; IH 2: (in press); Kelly p. 165, 255; Kew 4: 204; Lenley p. 39; LS suppl. 20733-20760; NW p. 54; Pennell p. 615; PH 209, 450; Stevenson p. 1253; TL-2/781.
- Ewan, J., Rocky Mt. natural. 275-276. 1950.
- Fergus, C. L., Mycologia 47: 140-144. 1955 (an index to L.O. O's mycological notes).
- Hesler, L. R., Progr. Sketches N. Amer. Mycol. mss. 1975.
- Kern, F. D., Mycologia 40: 1-5. 1948 (obit., bibl., portr., b. 23 Jun 1890, d. 10 Nov 1946).
- Murrill, W. A., Hist, found. bot. Florida 32. 1915.
- Rickett, H. W., Bull. Torrey bot. Club 76. 1955.
- Rogers, D. P., Brief hist. Mycol. N. Amer. 28. 1977.
- Rogerson, C. T., Mycologia Index 1009. 1968 (lists e.g. his Mycological notes).
- Shope, P. F., Mycologia 21: 295-296. 1929 (Colorado coll.).
- Verdoorn, F., Biologia 1(2): 7. 1947 (d.).
#### Composite works
- (1) *Pholiota, Hypodendrum in*NAF 10(4): 261-276. 29 Nov 1924, 10(5): 277-281. 21 Nov 1932 (see also his *Monograph of the genus Pholiota*,Ann. Missouri bot. Gard. 14: 87-210, *pl. 8-24.* Apr 1927.
- (2) *Hymenomycetes*,*in*C. E. Chardon and R. A. Toro, Mycological explorations of Venezuela 304-316. Oct 1934 (Monogr. Univ. Puerto Rico B 2).
#### Note
Overholts' main treatise of N. \# American Polyporaceae was published posthumously by Josiah L. Lowe, 1953: *The Polyporaceae of the United States, Alaska and Canada*,Ann Arbor (University of Michigan Press...) 1953, xiv, 466 p., *132 pl*., portrait of author. Overholts was a prolific author; reprints were made and widely distributed of many of his publications; all these reprints carry original pagination and dates. The precise dates of publication of his numerous papers in Mycologia (e.g. the *Mycological notes*; for index see C. L. Fergus 1955) will be found in C. T. Rogerson, Mycologia index (1968).
### Publications
##### n.7171. The Polyporaceae of the middle-western United States
**Title**
*The Polyporaceae of the middle-western United States*... \[Washington University Studies\] 1915. Oct.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: Jul 1915, Washington University Studies 3(1) (1): \[3\]-98, *pl. 1-8* (uncol. phot.). *Copies*: FH, MICH, NY. – To be cited from journal.
##### n.7172. The Polyporaceae of Pennsylvania
**Title**
*The Polyporaceae of Pennsylvania*. The genus Polyporus... State College, Pennsylvania (The Pennsylvania State College) 1933.
**Abbreviated title**: *Polypor. Pennsylvania*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: Sep 1933, p. \[1\]-28. *Copies*: MICH, NY. – Technical Bulletin 298, School of Agriculture and Experiment Station. State College, Pennsylvania.