Revisions of Ceylon Fungi. 



(PART III.) 



BY 



T. FETCH, B.A., B.Sc. 



TN Part I. of this series (Ann. Perad., IV., pp. 21-68) it was 

 -*- stated that the specimens which Gardner sent to Berkeley 

 were now in the Herbarium of the British Museum. That 

 statement was based on information furnished in Ceylon, and 

 has since been found to be incorrect. Gardner's specimens 

 were apparently retained by Berkeley, and are now in the 

 Kew Herbarium, while the paintings which accompanied that 

 consignment are in the Kew Library. These paintings are 

 contained in a small octavo volume, and consequently are 

 much reduced ; they are for the most part more or less 

 impressionist, and in many cases it is impossible to decide 

 from the figure whether the fungus represented is an agaric 

 or not. Figure 51, which was reproduced by Berkeley in 

 Hooker's London Journal of Botany, is missing. The speci- 

 mens are all available, and in the majority of cases it would 

 be possible to determine what the fungi are, but except in the 

 case of new species it is scarcely worth while. A large number 

 Avere assigned to European species ; the correction of these 

 identifications would serve no useful purpose, and would 

 certainly not provide information commensurate with the 

 time and labour involved. 



The Kew Herbarium contains the majority of the specimens 

 forwarded to Berkeley by Thwaites, while many duphcates 

 and some types are to be found in the Broome collection at 

 the British Museum. The distribution of types (or co-types) 

 appears to have been decidedly irregular ; most of them are 

 at Kew, with duplicates at the British Museum. But the latter 

 herbarium contains some species wliich are not represented 

 at Kew , and others are at Peradeniya only. 



Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, Vol. V., i'art IV., August, 1912. 



