Fungi from The Danish West Indies 

 collected 1905—1906. 



By OBWA^T 



C. Raunkiaer. iiy>*^' 



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PART I. 



(C. Raunkiter: Introiluction. — C. Ferdinan-dsen and 0. Winge: 

 Phycomyceteae, Ustilagineae, Uredineae, Discomyceteae, Pyrenomyceleae et 

 Fungi imperfecli.) 



Introduction 



by 



C. Raunkieer. 



During the winter 1905—1906 I visited tiie Danish West Indies 

 St. Croix, St. Thomas and St. Jan and stayed about 7 weeks in 

 each of them. My chief object was to study the biology of the 

 Flowering Plants but I also intended to gather as many as pos- 

 sible of the lower Land-Cryptogams: Fungi, Lichens and Mosses. 

 Our knowledge of the Danish Westindian Flora is in that respect 

 very deficient. The many botanists, who till now have studied the 

 Flora of the Danish West Indies and made collections here, have 

 almost exclusively taken notice of the higher plants as Phanerogams 

 and Vascular Cryptogams. As to the lower Land-Cryptogams con- 

 sequently only very few particulars are at hand. 



As to the fungi some details are to be found in Fries 's Novae 

 Symbolae Mycologicae, containing 24 species from D. W. I. and in 

 Novarum Symbolarum Mycologicarum Mantissa with 8 species from 

 D.W. L 



Besides this we know but two lists, namely one by F. Bor- 



CO gesen and 0. Paulsen containing 31 species, determined by E. 



^ Rostrup, and a list by Millspaugh with 20 species, determined 



J by Ellis and Kelsey, in all 75 species only. 



?N» We might expect the number of species much larger, even if 



-^ the climate of the Danish West Indies is unfavourable for the 



<I development of fungi. 



Botanisk Tidsskrift. 29. Bind. 1 



