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which has been carried out of the valley, the sole drift being 

 gravel, a mere bagatelle, due to runlets and streams during 

 summer and winter storms. I purposely put summer before 

 winter, as a summer downpour, acting on sun-baked rocks, 

 carries down more detritus than winter rain. 



NOTES ON THE FUNGI OF THE DUBEIN DISTRICT 

 (COUNTIES OF DUBEIN AND WICKEOW). 



BY GRKE:NW00D PIM, M.A., F.I,.S., AND ^. J. M'WKKNKY, M.A, M.D. 



[Read before the Dublin Naturalists' Field Club, 14th February, 1893.] 



Introduction. — By Grkknwood Pim. 



The first attempt at a mycologic flora of the Dublin district 

 appeared in the handbook compiled for the British Asso- 

 ciation meeting in 1878, and was published vSimultaneously in 

 the Scie7itific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society for that 

 year. It included about 470 species. In 1883 a short sup- 

 plemental list of some sixty species was published by the 

 Royal Irish Academy. Since then, with the exception of a 

 few stray notes in the proceedings of the Dublin Microscopical 

 Club in the Irish Naturalist, nothing bearing on this subject, 

 so far as I am aware, has appeared. 



During the ten years that have since elapsed, a considerable 

 number of new species have come under my notice, notwith- 

 standing that I have been able to devote but little time to the 

 subject of mycolog}', and mj^ colleague in this paper has also 

 added a large number to the record. It seemed, therefore, 

 desirable to gather together what has been done, and put it 

 into a form available for future reference. It was, indeed, 

 suggested that the former lists should be incorporated in the 

 present one, so as to give a complete catalogue of the species 

 hitherto met with in the district, but it was found that this 

 would occupy too much space; moreover, it is very certain 

 that there are man}^ more forms still to record before anything 

 like a complete mj^cologic flora of Dublin and Wicklow is 

 possible. Hence only those not previously recorded appear 

 in the annexed catalogue. The groups of Uredinei, Ustila- 



