FUNGI. 9* 



the Order, for which end he had made vast collections, and 

 for which he was so well prepared from the peculiar attention 

 he has always paid to Cryptogamic plants in general, to which 

 his numerous works liave borne, and ever will bear testimony. 

 The project lias only been abandoned by him gradually and 

 Avith great reluctance, and it must frankly be confessed tliat it 

 could never have been taken up by myself without the advantage 

 of the stores accumulated for his own use. It lias already been 

 stated that a IMS., containing an amended account of the 

 species described in the Midland Flora, including such as had 

 been detected by jNIr. Purton, and especially by Mr. Baxter of 

 Oxford, whose fasciculi of Cryptogamic plants included many 

 Fungi, since the termination of that work, was prepared for 

 Dr. Hooker, who was anxious to obtain the best information 

 from every quarter. Dr. Klotzsch; now one of the Curators 

 of the King's Herbarium at Berlin, arranged the whole of his 

 collection, including that of Captain Carmichael, who has con- 

 tributed to this Order, as well as to the Algse, an immense 

 number of species hitherto unknown in Great Britain, together 

 with authentic specimens of most of Dr. Greville's and Purtou's 

 species, and those enumerated by Dr. Johnston in the Flora of 

 Berwick, as also many Fungi, communicated by Mr. AV. AV^ilson 

 and Mr. Stock. I am mvself indebted to the liberality and 

 kindness of Messrs. J. D. C. and C. E. Sowerby, for the 

 opportunity of an unrestricted inspection of the original speci- 

 mens figured in their father's work, and for the loan of all the 

 more minute kinds which recpiired much study and microscopic 

 examination. 



It is not pretended that the present volume contains at all a 

 perfect list o^ British Fungi; numerous yet unobserved species, 

 1 am convinced, exist in my own immediate neighbourhood, 

 while districts which were new to me, liave always hitherto 

 supplied an abundant harvest. 



That others may with more certainty add to this list, it is my 

 intention, if I have health and leisure to do so, to publish Fas- 

 ciculi of dried Fungi, with an especial reference to this work ; 

 preparations for which are already made.* Great facilities, as 

 regards the more succulent Fungi, are now atVorded l)y Dr. 

 Klotzsch's plan, which is given in Dr. Hooker's Bolanicjl 

 Miscellanij ; and as it really removes some serious ditticulties 

 which stood in the way of studying these plants, it may be 

 well to copy the greater part of the account there given, and 

 to add a few words, as to the maimer in wliieii Dr. Hookers 

 ioUection is arranu:«'d. 



• III (ho (l.t.iinliiatioii of tlio vnrious «ppri«'S of riingi. it is very CPilnin 

 thftt iiotJ.iitii rnul.Ts such viiluiil.h' aid to tho student ns the being able to refer 

 to iiuthi'ulic sj'Ccinicus. \V. J. II. 



