FUNGI (MICROSCOPIC). 



IN the preparation of this list, the chief works used have been Saccardo's 

 Sylloge Fungorum, Karsten's Revisio Monographica atque Synopsis Ascomy- 

 cetum in Fennia hucusque detectorum, Phillips's Manual of the British Dis- 

 comycetes, and Plowright's Monograph of the British Uredineae and Ustilagineae, 

 besides the various books and papers mentioned below, and several others 

 which have been consulted for minor details. 



The usual mark of authentication (!) is placed after localities from which 

 specimens have been submitted to one or more of the referees. The numerals 

 placed after this sign correspond with those in the appended lists of referees 

 and published works. 



When compared with the published results of rnycological research in the 

 East of Scotland, the list now submitted contrasts very unfavourably as 

 regards the number of genera and species which it contains. This defect, 

 however, must not be attributed to climatic or other physical causes. The 

 genial climate of the West Coast, and the natural configuration of the shores 

 and islands of the Firth of Clyde, with their luxuriant vegetation and moist 

 shady glens, afford the very best conditions for the development of microfungi. 



In view of the manifest incompleteness of the present list, it may be hoped 

 that its publication will stimulate local research, and so enable the Mycologi- 

 cal Flora of the West of Scotland to be ere long as fully and carefully investi- 

 gated as that of the Eastern counties has already been. 



D. A. BOYD, Local Secy. Crypt. Soc. Scot. 



I. REFEREES BY WHOM SPECIMENS HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED. 



1. Mr. V. H. Blackmail, M.A., F.L.S., British Museum (Natural History). 



2. Dr. M. C^Cooke, A.L.S., Kew. 



3. Rev. Janies Keith, LL.D., Forres. 



4. Mr. Arthur Lister, F.R.S., F.L.S. 



5. Mr. George Massee, F.L.S., Kew. 



6. Mr. William Phillips, F.L.S., Shrewsbury. 



7. Dr. C. B. Plowright, F.L.S., King's Lynn. 



8. Miss A. Lorrain Smith, British Museum (Natural History). 



9. Prof. James W. H. Trail, M.D., F.L.S., Aberdeen. 



II. WORKS CITED FOR LOCALITIES FOR SPECIES. 



10. R. K. Greville Scottish Cryptogamic Flora. 



11. Dr. M. C. Cooke and G. Massee, F.L.S. Papers on New British Fungi in 



later volumes of Gremllea. 



12. T. Hopkirk Flora Glottiana. 



13. William Phillips, F.L.S. Manual of the British Discomycetes. 



14. Rev. John Stevenson, LL.D. Mycologia Scotica. 



15. Supplement to Mycologia Scotica, in 

 Scottish Naturalist, vol. vi., p. 32. 



