222 BET. J. M. CBOMBIK ON THE LI OH EX 3 



Peziza (Sarcoscyph.*:) kerguelenensis, Berkeley in Hook. 

 Antarct. Fl. p. 451, tab. clxiv. iii. fig. 1, 3, 5; Cooke, Myc. fig. 134. 



Habitat. Amongst dwarfed Lepitinella plumosa on wet ground very 

 near the shore, growing in rings. Rare. One ring on an island in 

 Swain's Bay, January, and another ring on the mainland, near Obser- 





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vatory Bay, February 1875 



Ou the Lichens collected by Professor R. O. Cunningham in 

 the Falkland Islands, Fuegia, Patagonia, and the Island of 



M. CRQfl 



By 



[Read March 16, 1876.] 



The Lichen- flora of the region under notice, comprising the 

 Falkland Islands, Fuegia, Patagonia, and the Island of Chiloe, 

 has been made known to us in one or other of these tracts by the 

 collections of various investigators, as Capt. King, Commerson, Dr. 

 J. H ooker, and more especially M. Lechler. The present interest- 

 ing collection, now in the Kew Herbarium, and recently sub- 

 mitted to me for examination, includes the great majority of the 

 known lichens of Antarctic America, while at the same time it 

 contains a very fair proportion of additions to Lichenological 

 science. Unfortunately, as is too often the case in collections 

 from the more remote countries, there are but very few saxicole 

 lichens present, though there can be no doubt that these are 

 frequent in the regions visited, and would well repay investigation. 

 The short time, however, which is usually at the disposal of col- 

 lectors, as well as the difficulties connected with transit, seem to 

 form an almost insuperable obstacle to the collecting of many 

 saxicole species, unless some special provision were made for this 

 purpose, which would unquestionably be of the greatest advan- 

 tage to this important branch of Cryptogamic Botany. 



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* [COPRINUS ATRAMENTARIUS, jFV. 



Two or three specimens were found singly close to the edges of two of the 

 lakes amongst the hills near Observatory Bay, in February 1875. Having been 

 preserved in fluid and shaken to pieces during the voyage to England, they were 

 not transmitted to Mr. Berkeley, but having compared them with the diagnosis 

 in Berk. Outl. Brit. Fung. p. 177, when fresh, I have named them a* above. 

 A. hJ. K.|. 



