Andrew Price Morgan was an American botanist. He investigated the flora of the Miami Valley

Miami Valley

The Miami Valley, broadly, refers to the land area surrounding the Great Miami River in southwest Ohio, USA, and also includes the Little Miami, Mad, and Stillwater rivers as well...

 in Ohio

Ohio

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. While his interest included flowering plants, as noted by his Flora of the Miami Valley, Ohio, his special interest was in fungi. Morgan worked as a teacher in Dayton. He studied the botany of the Great Miami River, publishing in 1878 the Flora of the Miami River, Ohio; Morgan also showed particular interest in mycology

Mycology

Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungi, including their genetic and biochemical properties, their taxonomy and their use to humans as a source for tinder, medicinals , food and entheogens, as well as their dangers, such as poisoning or...

 and bryology

Bryology

Bryology is the branch of botany concerned with the scientific study of bryophytes . Bryophytes were first studied in detail in the 18th century...

. His mentor was the prominent American mycologist Curtis Gates Lloyd

Curtis Gates Lloyd

Curtis Gates Lloyd was an American mycologist known for both his research on the Gasteromycetes, as well as his controversial views on naming conventions in taxonomy. He had a herbarium with over 59,000 fungal specimens, and published over a thousand new species of fungi...

. His correspondence with Lloyd is stored in the Lloyd Library and Museum

Lloyd Library and Museum

The Lloyd Library and Museum is a collection in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, covering medical botany, pharmacy, eclectic medicine, and horticulture. It was initially started from the personal collection of the pharmacist John Uri Lloyd in 1864. In 1919, John Uri Lloyd and his two brothers, Nelson Ashley...

 in Cincinnati.

Taxa described

• Astraeus
  Astraeus
  In Greek mythology, Astraeus or Astraeos was an astrological deity and the Titan-god of the dusk. In Hesiod's Theogony and in the Bibliotheca, Astraeus is a second-generation Titan, descended from Crius and Eurybia. However, Hyginus wrote that he was descended directly from Tartarus and Gaia, and...
  
  Morgan (1889)
• Bovistella
  Bovistella
  Bovistella is a genus of fungi in the family Agaricaceae.-External links:*...
  
  Morgan (1892)
• Marasmius delectans Morgan (1905)
• Pyrenomyxa
  Pyrenomyxa
  Pyrenomyxa is a genus of fungi in the family Xylariaceae. The genus is synonymous with Pulveria Malloch & Rogerson.-External links:*...
  
  (1896)

Eponymous taxa

Several fungal species have been named in Morgan's honor:

• Agaricus morganii Peck 1879
• Boletus morgani Peck 1883 (now Heimioporus betula)
• Cantharellus morgani Peck (now Hygrophoropsis morganii)
• Geastrum morganii Lloyd 1902
• Hypoxylon morganii Ellis & Everh. 1892
• Polyporus morgani Frost
• Lepiota morgani Peck 1887 (now Chlorophyllum molybdites
  Chlorophyllum molybdites
  Chlorophyllum molybdites, which has the common names of false parasol or green-spored parasol is a widespread mushroom. Highly poisonous and producing severe gastrointestinal symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea, it is commonly confused with the shaggy parasol, and is the most commonly consumed...
  
  )
• Marasmius morganianus Sumst. 1914
• Morganella Zeller 1948
• Peziza morganii Massee 1902
• Physospora morganii Sacc. & Traverso 1911
• Polyporus morganii Frost 1879 (now Polyporus radicatus)
• Russula morganii Sacc. 1887
• Stemonitis morganii Peck 1880
• Steccherinum morganii Banker 1906 (now Steccherinum reniforme)
• Trametes morganii Lloyd 1919
• Xylaria morganii Lloyd 1924

In honor of his wife, Morgan named Hygrophorus laurae, currently known as Limacium laurae (Morgan) Singer.

Publications

• Morgan, A.P. (1878). Flora of the Miami Valley, Ohio. The literary union.
• Morgan, A.P. (1884) "The North American Geasters" in American Naturalist 18:(10) 963–970
• Morgan, A.P. (1887) "North American Agarics. -- The sub-genus Amanita" in Journal of Mycology 3:(3) 25–33
• Morgan, A.P. (1889) "North American Fungi. The Gasteromycetes: 1." in Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History 11: 141–149
• Morgan, A.P. (1890). North American fungi. Third paper. The Gastromycetes. Order II. Lycoperdaceae (continued). Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History 12 (4): 8, 163–168.
• Morgan, A.P. (1892). Two new genera of hyphomycetes. Botanical Gazette 17: 190–192.
• Morgan, A.P. (1892). North American helicosporae. Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History 15: 39–52.
• Morgan, A.P. (1892, publ. 1893). The myxomycetes of Miami Valley, Ohio. I. Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History 15: 127–143.
• Morgan, A.P. (1894). The myxomycetes of Miami Valley, Ohio. III. Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History 16: 127-156.
• Morgan, A.P. (1895). New North American fungi. Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History 18: 36–45.
• Morgan, A.P. (1896). The myxomycetes of Miami Valley, Ohio. IV. Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History 19: 1-44.
• Morgan, A.P. (1902). The discomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio. Journal of Mycology 8: 179–192.
• Morgan, A.P. (1906). North American species of Heliomyces. Journal of Mycology 12: 92–95.
• Morgan, A.P. (1906). North American species of Lepiota. Journal of Mycology 12: 154–159, 195–203, 242–248.