2 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



in these researches by the Rev. Miles J. Berkeley, to whom 

 most of the forms were sent in the fresh state, and by 

 whom they were named and recorded in the long series of 

 ' Notices of British Fungi,' published by M. J. Berkeley 

 and C. E. Broome in the " Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History." 



Mr. Stevenson began his residence at Glamis when 

 interest in fungi was very strong ; and fortunately near 

 the Manse was ground peculiarly rich for several years 

 in numerous forms of the larger fungi. Soon he was 

 prominent among the most successful discoverers of addi- 

 tions to the British lists of fungi, and " Glamis " became 

 a very familiar locality to students of Mr. Berkeley's 

 " Notices." 



But not content with discovering and forwarding these 

 forms to be named, Mr. Stevenson made a careful personal 

 study especially of the Hyuienomycetcs, and was recognised as 

 an authority on these fungi. He took an active part in the 

 foundation of the Scottish Cryptogamic Society in 1874, 

 and in the very successful exhibition of fungi in Perth with 

 which it was inaugurated. In 1879 he laid students of the 

 fungi of Scotland under great obligations by the publication 

 of " Mycologia Scotica," printed for the Cryptogamic Society 

 of Scotland. In this were enumerated all forms that had 

 been published by Greville, Johnstone, Gardiner, and Dickie 

 in their local floras, by Berkeley and others in British floras, 

 and by numerous writers in such journals as " Annals and 

 Magazine of Natural History," " Grevillea," "Journal of 

 Botany," " Scottish Naturalist," and transactions of scientific 

 societies. The number of named forms, including " pro- 

 visional species," is 2156; and for each of these the 

 geographical distribution is indicated as far as known, 

 under natural areas based on the chief watersheds. 



The book gave a great stimulus to the study of the 

 fungi of Scotland, both by the information gathered up in it 

 and by directing attention to the groups of fungi and the 

 districts of Scotland of which little or nothing was known ; 

 and very substantial progress was made in the discovery 

 of additional species, in the extension of the known areas 

 of distribution of many, and in the recognition of the 



