342 BET. M. J. BEBKELEY ON CUBAN EUNGI. 



So that, taking the whole collection, which consists of 888 

 species, we have — 



per cent. 



Peculiar species 55 8 



Contiguous islands and continent ll'l 



United States, excluding Europe 4'! 



Euro2)ean and United States 13'1 



Widely distributed 14'9 



Total 99-0 



At least a fourth of the species are those of temperate cli- 

 mates ; and as regards the rest, they may he considered for the 

 most part characteristic of subtropical rather than tropical 

 regions. 



Of those which have a wide range, 40 are found in Europe ; 

 so that 23*3 per cent* (or 93) of the species now described are 

 European ; and taking the Hymenomycetes also into considera- 

 tion, of which 75 are European, we have on the whole 18*9 per 

 cent, of species identical with those of Europe. 



Contrasting this with collections from other countries, we have 



i 



per cent. 



lu Tasmania 48'0 



In ]!^ew Zealand 34*1 



In the Philippine isles 5*0 



In Java 33*3 



A former estimation of European species in Cuba at 25'0 per 

 cent, is reduced 6 per cent, by an examination of the present 

 collection. 



The number of genera is large with reference to species, but, 

 perhaps, not more so than in a European flora. 



As regards the distribution through the year, we cannot ex- 

 pect it to be the same with that of Hymenomycetes. In that 

 case the number of species was greatest in December and Ja- 

 nuary ; with respect to the other families, February produced, 

 ^\^thin two, as many as December and January, while June and 

 Jidy together gave two more than Eebruary. May, on the con- 

 trary, yielded very few. Without an exact acq^uaintance with 

 the comparative rainfall or humidity in different months, and m 

 the absence of all information as to the height at which the spe- 

 cimens were gathered, it would be useless to attempt to explain 

 the discrepancy. 



