HYMENOMYCETES AND GASTROMYCETES. 



STUDY of Fungi in the West of Scotland may be said to date from the 

 visit of the Cryptogamic Society to Glasgow in 1880. Kennedy, it is true, 

 had taken it up to some extent, and has left a considerable number of 

 specimens of the Polypori, correctly named, in the Technical College 

 Museum, but he seems to have had no helpers or successors, until the 

 late Professor Thomas King, with one or two other members of the Natural 

 History Society, entered upon it at the date named. It is due to the visits 

 of the Cryptogamic Society, of which Mr. King afterwards became Local 

 Secretary and Treasurer, and greatly to his enthusiasm, that there is any 

 material for a record of this section of the Cryptogams of this district. 



The list has been drawn up, as to arrangement and nomenclature, accord- 

 ing to the Rev. Dr. Stevenson's Hymenomycetes Britannici, and, for the 

 'Gastromycetes, that in Mr. George Massee's British Fungus Flora. 



In these two families, as given in the works named, there are 1749 species 

 of which 538 have been recorded for the Clyde area. The district, however, 

 has not been very thoroughly examined, except in those sections easily 

 accessible ; indeed for two of them, D-I (Kintyre, south of Ardrishaig), and 

 K (South Ayrshire), there is not a single record, while in others the number 

 is comparatively few, as shown in the following statement for the various 

 sections : A, 172 species ; B, 178 ; C, 82 ; D-I, ; E-J, 61 ; F, 278, 

 G, 356 ; H, 87 ; K, ; L-M, 128. 



The following species, not in Hymenomycetes Britannici, are in the list : 

 Ag. (Psilocybe) sarcocephalus, Fr. Craigends, (F.) R. B. Johnston ; Bolbitius 

 bulbillosus, Fr. Largs, (F.) W. S. ; Russula azurea, Bres., and R. caerulea, 

 Pers., Rossdlm, (B.) Dr. Plowright ; var. nivea, Pers. of K. fragilis, and 

 var. niveus of Boletus scaber, Buchanan Castle, (C.) Dr. Plowright ; Poly- 

 porus sanguineus, Fr., P. pergamenus, Fr., and Stereum lobatum, Kunze, 

 Botanic Gardens, (G.) R. Paterson, certified by Dr. M. C. Cooke ; Cyphella 

 capula, Fr., var. cernua, Schum., West Kilbride, (F.) D. A. Boyd ; and three 

 Clavariae, certified by Dr. Cooke as C. fragilis, C. helvola, and C. Candida, 

 Botanic Gardens, (G.) W. S. 



The records of the Cryptogamic Society of Scotland, the lists of the late 

 Professor Thomas King, Mr. D. A. Boyd, West Kilbride, and the local 

 secretary, and the collections made during the course of the work by willing 

 assistants of the Natural History and Andersonian Societies, are the main 

 sources from which the material has been drawn. The list was submitted 

 to and approved by the Society at Boat-of -Garten, 18th September, 1900. 

 The Society's referees for rare, uncommon, and critical species were : the 

 Rev. John Stevenson, LL.D., F.R.S.E., Glamis ; Rev. James Keith, LL.D., 

 Forres ; Rev. David Paul, LL.D., Edinburgh ; and Dr. C. B. Plowright, 

 Kings Lynn, of the British Mycological Society ; to all of whom thanks are 

 due. Thanks are also due to Mr. Lymburn and Mr. Barrett for facilities 

 for research in the University and Mitchell Libraries ; and to Mr. G. F. 

 .Scott Elliot, M.A., B.Sc., F.L.S., F.R.G.S., for access to records and aid in 



