Mycology Euripides (480-406 B.C.). The Greek philosopher Theophrastos of Eresos (371-288 B.C.) was perhaps the first to try to systematically classify plants; mushrooms were considered to be plants missing certain organs. It was later Pliny the Elder (23–79 A.D.), who wrote about truffles in his encyclopedia "Naturalis historia". The word "mycology" comes from the Greek: μύκης ("mukēs"), meaning "fungus" and the suffix ("-logia"), meaning "study". The Middle Ages saw little advancement in the body of knowledge about fungi. Rather, the invention of the printing press allowed some authors to disseminate superstitions and misconceptions about the fungi that had been perpetuated by
General of the branch influence, with the all-encompassing rank of general. Full generals (4 star; NATO OF-9) in the Finnish military were classified as generals of infantry ("jalkaväenkenraali"), cavalry ("ratsuväenkenraali"), jaeger ("jääkärikenraali") and artillery ("tykistönkenraali"). The title is now merely honorific, and only one 4-star general is active at any one time in the modern Finnish military. In the German "Wehrmacht" a general of a branch () was linked to service arms of the "Heer" (army) and "Luftwaffe" (air force), depending on where the officer served and what troops he (nominally) commanded. It was equivalent to the three-star ranks of admiral in the Nazi