118 FUNGI FROM KERGUELEN ISLAND, 



"Antarctic" under Sii' James Ross (1840), the "Challenger" under 

 Sir George Nares (1874), and three ''Transit of Venus" Expeditions 

 (1874-75), — and it is to them we owe our present scanty knowledge 

 of the fungi of this island. In the Botany of the American 

 Transit Expedition,* no fungi are recorded, and I have not seen 

 the Report of the German Expedition to which Drs. Naumann 

 and Huesker were attached as naturalists, but a list of all 

 obtained by the others is given in the Transactions of the Royal 

 Society, Vol. 168 (1879). Saccardo's " Sylloge Fungorum " has, 

 however, been consulted, and probably all the known species are 

 there recorded. Nine species have been described, distributed 

 among seven genera. 



Mr. HalVs Collection. — There are ten species of fungi repre- 

 sented altogether, exclusive of bacteria, distributed among as 

 many genera, and all of them are determinable from the fairly 

 good state of preservation in which they reached my hands. It 

 is very creditable indeed to Mr. Hall that, after such distinguished 

 naturalists as Sir Joseph Hooker, Moseley and Eaton had visited 

 the island, he should have succeeded, not only in collecting- 

 several species unobserved by them, but in securing more species 

 than the total number previously known. 



It will be seen, on next page, that 5 are among the 9 previously 

 recorded, and the remaining 5 are new to the island, two of them 

 (Panaeolus Hallii and Fusarium rhodellum) being new to science. 

 Of the 5 newly recorded, two of them at least are so cosmopolitan 

 that they have probably been introduced by the sealers who 

 occasionally visit the island, so that there are 3 to be added to the 

 fungus-flora as indigenous species. The total number, therefore, 

 of the fungi at present known is 14, of which three are very 

 probably introductions. 



In isolated islands, such as Kerguelen, it has been observed 

 that the species are generally well defined, and that the genera 

 are small, seldom containing more than two or three species. 

 In the present collection each genus has only one species, and in 



* Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. xii. Art. ii. 1S78. 



