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FRIES, ELIAS MAGNUS (1794–1878)

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FRIES, See also:ELIAS See also:MAGNUS (1794–1878) , See also:Swedish botanist, was See also:born at Femsjo, Smaland, on the 15th of See also:August 1794. From his See also:father, the pastor of the See also:church at Femsjo, he See also:early acquired an extensive knowledge of flowering See also:plants. In 1811 he entered the university of See also:Lund, where in 1814 he was elected docent of See also:botany and in 1824 See also:professor. In 1834 he became professor of See also:practical See also:economy at See also:Upsala, and in 1844 and 1848 he represented the university of that See also:city in the Rigsdag. On the See also:death of Goran Wahlenberg (178o–1851) he was appointed professor of botany at Upsala, where he died on the 8th of See also:February 1878. Fries was admitted a member of the Swedish Royal See also:Academy in 1847, and a See also:foreign member of the Royal Society of See also:London in 1875. As an author on the Cryptogamia he was in the first See also:rank. He wrote Novitiae florae Suecicae (1814 and 1823); Observationes mycologicae (1815) ; See also:Flora Hollandica (1817–1818) ; Systema mycologicum (1821–1829); Systema orbis vegetabilis, not completed (1825); Elenchus fungorum (1828); Lichenographia Europaea (1831); Epicrisis systematis mycologici (1838; 2nd ed., or Hymenomycetes Europaei, 1874); Summa vegetabilium Scandinaviae (1846); Sveriges dtliga och giftiga Svampar, with coloured plates (186o); Monographia hymenomycetum Suecicae (1863), with the Icones hymenomycetum, vol. i. (1867), and pt. i. vol. ii. (1877).

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