438 SIXTY YEARS OF BRITISH MYCOLOGY. 



prove distinct. Meanwhile it may be well to put on record that 

 the first publication of the name Habenaria viridis var. bracteata 

 should stand as " Morong in American Check-list, p. 121 (1894)." 



SIXTY YEAKS OF BRITISH MYCOLOGY. 



[A PAPER bearing the above title was read by Dr. M. C. Cooke 

 at a meeting of the Essex Field Club on Oct. 16, 1897, and is 

 printed in full in The Essex Naturalist, vol. x. pp. 216-223 (pub- 

 lished March, 1898). We extract from it the following interesting 

 statistics. — Ed. Journ. Bot.] 



The Supi^lement to Smith's Flora, by M. J. Berkeley, in 1836, 

 inaugurated the special study of Fungi. Hooker remarks in his 

 preface that " notwithstanding all that has been done by Withering, 

 Sowerby, Purton, Carmichael, and Greville, the Fungi must yet be 

 acknowledged as the least understood of all our British Flora." 

 If we allow our imagination to revert to this period we can soon 

 discover from the local floras — Abbot's Flora Bedfordiensis (1798), 

 Jones and Kingston's Flora Devoniensis (1829), Greville's Flora 

 Edinensis (1824), Hooker's Flora Scotica (1821), Hudson's Flora 

 Anplica (1778), Johnston's Flora of Berwick-on-Tweed (1829) Light- 

 foot's Flora Scotica (1777), Mackay's Flora Hibernica (1836), 

 Burton's Midland Flora (1817), Relhan's Flora Cantabrigiensis 

 (1820), Sibthorp's Flora Oxoniensis (1794), to which may be added 

 Withering's Arrangement 3rd edition (1796), and Gray's Natural 

 Arrangement (1821) — the extent of knowledge possessed by botanists 

 of the fungi of their localities. 



From these sources we discover that the total number of fungi 

 known for the localities determined were : — 



khhoi's Flora Bedfordiensis {lim) 284 



Jones and Kingston's Flora Devoniensis (1829) 145 



Greville's Flora Edinensis (1824) 410 



Hooker's F/om 5'coimi (1821) 212 



Hudi^on's Flora Anglica illlQ) 126 



^olm^ion's Flora of Berwick ... ... ... 336 



Lightfoot's Flora Scotica (1777) 73 



Mackay's Flora Hibeniica (1836) ... ... none 



Burton's Midland Flora (1817-1821) ... 395 



Relhan's Flora Cantabrigiensis ... ... 254 



Sibthorp's Flora Oxoniensis (1794) ... ... 232 



Withering's Arrangement 3rd edition (1796) 555 



To which we may add for comparison — 



Gv&y's Natural Arrangement {1821) ... ... 803 



Berkeley, in Smith's English Flora (1836) .. 1390 



Hence we learn that the total of British Fungi known previous 

 to her Majesty's accession were — 



1836 Bevkeley's Supplement 1390 



