Franklin Sumner Earle

Franklin Sumner Earle (September 4, 1856 – January 31, 1929) was an American mycologist who specialized in fungal plant diseases.

He was the first ever mycologist to be employed at the New York Botanical Garden, and was the author of The Genera of North American Gill Fungi.

[2] Soon after college, Earle served as the superintendent of the Mississippi Agriculture Experiment Station (1892–1895).

[2] Between 1890 and 1899 Earle was co-editor of three exsiccata works called Economic fungi with Arthur Bliss Seymour.

[3] Earle worked as an Assistant Curator in charge of mycological collections at the New York Botanical Garden in 1901.