History of the Fungi of the Kingdom of Naples

Horizontal ornamental rule

It is now nearly twenty years original: "quartum lustrum," a period of five years; thus, twenty years since my beloved father presented to this Royal Academy of Sciences the first three dissertations of our mycology, contained in the present book under the title: History of the Fungi of the Kingdom of Naples. Specimen I, II, and III. The members of the Society received them kindly and urged that they be published as soon as possible, as the beginning of a work for the Neapolitan Cryptogamic Flora, which was still a desideratum. Furthermore, the slow circulation of the volumes of this Academy, which allowed only one or two—that is, the fourth and fifth—to appear after so long a span of time, as well as the unexpected adverse causes and vicissitudes that prevailed after the author's death, have left such useful and most significant studies of the author scattered and almost completely forgotten.