Benjamin Matlack Everhart

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Benjamin Matlack Everhart (born near West Chester, Pennsylvania, 24 April 1818; died in West Chester, 22 September 1904) was a United States mycologist.

Biography

His father, William Everhart, the son of a Revolutionary soldier, was a merchant, and a member of congress in 1853-55. Benjamin was educated in private schools in West Chester, and spent his early life in mercantile business there and in Charleston, South Carolina, making a comfortable fortune.

From boyhood, he was an ardent student of botany, and after retiring from business in 1867 he devoted himself almost entirely to that science, particularly to cryptogamic botany. In connection with J. B. Ellis, of New Jersey, he was active in issuing yearly fifty volumes, called The Century of North American Fungi, each volume describing 100 species. At the same time, with William A. Kellerman, of Kansas, they published the Journal of Mycology.

He discovered many new fungi. The genus Everhartia was named for him, as well as the following species:

Everhartia hymenuloides Sacc. et Ellis
Melanconis Everhartii Ellis
Myrioccoccum Everhartii Ellis & Sacc.
Ophionectria Everhartii Ellis & Gal.
Mucronoporus Everhartii Ellis & Gal.
Pestalozzia Everhartii Sacc. & Syd.
Sorosporium Everhartii Ellis & Gal.
Dothiorella Everhartii Sacc. & Syd.
Gloeosporium Everhartii Sacc. & Syd.
Myxosporium Everhartii Sacc. & Syd.
Phyllosticta Everhartii Sacc. & Syd.
Physalospora Everhartii Sacc. & Syd.
Septoria Everhartii Sacc. & Syd.

The standard author abbreviation Everh. is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]

Family

His brother James Bowen Everhart was a member of congress.

Notes

↑ [http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advAuthorSearch.do?find_abbreviation=Everh. "Author Query for 'Everh.'"]. International Plant Names Index.

References

"Benjamin Matlack Everhart". Journal of Mycology 10: 225. September 1904.

Attribution

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1900). "Everhart, Benjamin Matlack". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton

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Name	Everhart, Benjamin Matlack
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Short description	American mycologist
Date of birth	1818
Place of birth
Date of death	1904
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