Table 1 A list of Lewis David von Schweinitz’s volumes of unpublished water colour paintings of fungi, with Albertini and Schweinitz’s Conspectus. The five-volume set and the Harvard Icones were created by Schweinitz and were used as reference materials in the development of the Conspectus. Volume 4 is a supplement to volume 1 and volume 5 is a supplement to volumes 2 and 3 (Hewitt 2002). Note the variation in the spelling of the title between volumes 1–3 and 4, 5. Volume 1 contains plates numbered 1–77, but lacks plates 33, 40, 44–47, 50, 51. Nearly every species listed in the Conspectus is illustrated in the five-volume set. The Harvard Icones is a sketchbook of illustrations that are preliminary to the finished paintings in the five-volume set and the etched plates in the Conspectus. The Michigan Icones are water colour copies of figures from volumes 2, 3 and 5 of the five-volume set and were executed in America. Vol.: Volume number of the five-volume set. Dates: our approximation of when each volume was created. Our rationale is outlined in Supplementary Table S1. Abbrev. name: an abbreviation of the volume name used here. No. pl. and No. figs.: the number of plates and figures in the volume, respectively, with totals for the five-volume set given in italics. MS loc.: manuscript location, given as an abbreviation of the names of the following institutions: ANS: Archives of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. UNC: Rare Book Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. H: Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. M: Herbarium Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. NOTE: all volumes except for the Michigan Icones are available online in digitized form, see References.

From: New light on the mycological work of Lewis David von Schweinitz