238 The Irish Naturalist. 



III. — BOTANY. 



FUNGI. 



BY E. J. M'WKENEV, M.A., M.D. 



// YMENOM YCE TES. 



This Order, which comprises the most highly organized and largest 

 Fungi was but sparsely represented, owing no doubt partly to the dry- 

 ness of the early summer season, but chiefly to the fact that a great deal 

 of the ground traversed — stony and boggy, mountainous and maritime 

 regions— is 'of a character notoriously unfavourable to the growth of 

 agarics and their allies. Besides, their season of fructification had as 

 yet hardly commenced. In the patches of wood (chiefly fir) by the lake 

 sides at Recess on the 12th Jul}', and Lough Corrib on the i6th, the 

 ordinary species oi Bolettts generally met with in such places, were taken 

 together with a few of the manure-frequenting agarics belonging to the 

 genera Panaohis, Stropharia and Coprinus. We also found a very fine 

 Mycena filopes, and one Marasmius androsaceus, an uncommon species in 

 my experience. The heaths at Recess yielded a large mouse-coloured 

 pink-spored Agaric [Entoloma helodcs, Fr.), in abundance, and large forms 

 of Galera hypnoriim and its var. Sphagnorinn^ were met with in the swamps 

 at Lough Corrib. The only form at all peculiar or unusual was a 

 pale-yellow-capped white-gilled Canthardlus {albidtis) which we came 

 across in some abundance on the heath-covered slopes at Recess and 

 also near Lough Corrib. No agaric save the Common Mushroom 

 seems to have been collected on Aran. 



Agraricus (lYIyccna) fi lopes, Bull. — Wood at Lough Corrib. 



A. (WI.) stylotoatcs, Pers. — Lake-side near Recess. 



A. (Entoloma) helodes, Fr. — Abundant on heaths, Recess, &c, 



A. (Calera) hypnorum, Batsch. — Frequent in the bogs. Recess, &c. 



var. Sphagnorum, Fr. — Swamps by Lough Corrib. 



A. (Psalllota) campestrls Linn, (the Common Mushroom). — 

 Frequent in nearly every suitable locality, including Aran . 



A. (Stropharia) semigloli^atusy Batsch— Lough Corrib and 

 Recess, frequent. 



Anellarla flmlputrls, Karsten— Lough Corrib. 



PanOBOlus phalaenarum, Fr.— Lough Corrib. 



Coprinus cphcmcrus, Fr.— Lough Corrib. 



Cantharellus albldus, Fr.— On heaths at Recess and L. Corrib. 



Marasmius androsaceus, Fr.— Lough Corrib. 



Boletus luteus, Linn.— Lough Corrib. 



B. flavus, With.— Lough Corrib. 



B. larlclnus, Berk.— Recess Wood, and Lough Corrib. 

 Fomes varlegatus, Seer.— Burren. 

 TremcHa mesenteflca, Retz.— Lough Corrib. 



