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literature of the subject and the absence of a herbarium, which is 



indispensible to the correct determination of the species of several 



genera, such as Polyporus, that great credit is due to him for the 



work he accomplished. In the Annals of Natural History for 



the year 1840 he recorded about forty species of Agaricini : among 



the rarer forms were Agarimis adiposus, Batsch, and A, Loveianus, 



B., two CantharelU, three Boleti, four Poly pari ^ one Radulumy 



four Thelephorcd, two Clavarice, one Geoglossum, two Helvelloe^ 



seven Pezizce, one Tremella^ the unique species of S2:)]iocroholuSy 



eight Sphmrice, among which was the rare and curious S, 



entomorrhizcBy which grows on caterpillars, after they have buried 



themselves in the earth, to undergo their first transformation, 



Geaster rufescens, a rare species of the puff-ball tribe, three 



species of Myxogaster, one mould Sepedoniwn^ and fifteen species 



of leaf fungi, Puccinia, ^cidioe, &c. — in all, about ninety-six 



species. In 1S48 Mr. Stephens published a supplementary list 



of forty species, with some corrections of the nomenclature in his 



former list, which the acquisition of Fries' system and Sowerby's 



figures enabled him to make; subsequently he discovered some 



of the rarities before spoken of, Hydnangium carotoecolor, B., 



and Octaviania Stephensii, T. After that he contributed 



numerous species to the papers published by Messrs. Berkeley 



and Bioome, in the Amtals of Natural History . 



The next botanist who took up the mycology of the neighbour- 

 hood of Bristol, although better known at that time as an 

 Algologist, was Dr. Thwaites, the present Curator of the Royal 

 Botanic Garden at Pergadenia, Ceylon, and author of a Flora of 

 that country. His contributions to the Fungi of Bristol were 

 also included in the papers in the Annals of Natural History. 

 The name of the Eev. W. E, Crotch must not be omitted from 

 the list of Bristol mycologists. Although residing beyond our 

 prescribed limits, he visited the choicer localities within them from 

 time to time, and published the results in the Proceedings of the 

 Somersetshire Arcliceological and Natural History Society ior 1852. 

 In Mr. Crotch's list, 270 species of Agaricini are recorded out of 



