As the alter ego of the individualist and free-thinking mycologist Curtis Gates Lloyd, Prof. McGinty was invoked when Lloyd needed to express his strong views on the follies of nomenclature. In his manifestations as Prof. McGinty, Lloyd effectively and arguably validly published a select, but fascinating and amusing range of new scientific names for fungi, some of which have yet to be discovered. The illustration of Prof. McGinty, left, was provided by Lloyd, with the following accompanying text. "The followers of the late lamented Otto Kuntze will be pleased with the illustration that we are enabled to produce from our esteemed contemporary... ...illustrating an important event in the history of this school of nomenclature. Perhaps the most momentous incident in the literature of the school was the discovery that Professor McGinty made of the new genus 'Anthropomorphus' by which he was able to change all the names of the Geasters and added his name to them all. We had the great honor to have been entrusted by Professor McGinty with the original publication of his article, and in view of its classical value, we publish it again... ...The picture is a copy of an oil-painting that hangs in the rooms of the Poseyville Fungus Forage Club, and shows the Professor in the act of making his momentous discovery." Lists. Taxa. Kirk & Ansell form of name: McGinty.