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made great advances in our knowledge of these fungi. For the 

 most part their discoveries, as well as the earlier ones of Johnstone 

 and Jerdon, were recorded by Messrs. Berkeley and Broome, in 

 their well-known series of papers in the Annals and Magazine of 

 Natural History, extending over many years. Mr. Stevenson has 

 summed up the result of these discoveries up to the year 1879, in 

 his MyCOlogia Scotica. Additions have been continued in 

 the numerous supplements to this work in the Scottish Naturalist. 

 Reference must also be made to Dr. Buchanan White's "Prelimi- 

 nary List of the Fungi of Perthshire," in the Scottish Naturalist, 

 Vols. V.-VL, 1879-81 ; and to Dr. Keith's "List of Fungi of 

 Moray {Scot. Nat., Vol. II., 1873-74), "Supplementary List of 

 the Fungi of Moray" (I.e., Vols. IV.-V, 1878-79), and "Second 

 Supplementary List of the Fungi of Moray" (I.e., New Series, 

 Vol. I., 1884-85). A good many of Dr. Keith's discoveries 

 (chiefly among the Discomycetes) have been recorded by Messrs. 

 Phillips and Plowright in their papers, in Grevillea, on " New or 

 Rare British Fungi." 



Dr. M. C. Cooke has also discovered and recorded, in Grevillea 

 chiefly, several fungi from the neighbourhood of Edinburgh. 



My own work among micro-fungi is of recent date, and is 

 supplementary to that accomplished by others. The results are 

 recorded by myself (except some by Mr. Stevenson) in the supple- 

 ments to Mycologia Scotica, and in other papers all in this 

 Journal, and almost all in its second series. All the species and 

 varieties to which I have given names were discovered and first 

 recorded by myself. The districts from which I have collected 

 fungi are Tay (near Montrose and Rescobie), Dee (around Aber- 

 deen, up Deeside and in other localities), and Moray (from Forres 

 eastward). An asterisk marks species found by me in Scotland. 



The numbers immediately following the names are those under 

 which the fungi are placed in Saccardo's Sylloge Fungorum, 

 Vol. III. Those preceded by C are the numbers in Cooke's list 

 in Grevillea. Those preceded by M are the numbers the fungi 

 bear in Stevenson's Mycologia Scotica ; and those preceded 

 by S.M. are the numbers they bear in the Supplements 

 to the Mycologia published at intervals in the Scottish 

 Naturalist ; and species not previously described as Scotch, nor 

 included in Cooke's Handbook of British Fungi, are 

 briefly described below. These descriptions, where founded on 



