i'Ki:sii)i:.\'n \i. addki^ss — sixtion c. ioi 



Pcricliuiia. Slilhnin and L'slihujo. Most of Drct^e's spcciiiK-ns 

 are now preserved in the I lerbariuni Delessert at (jeneva. 



Anothei- eoni])reliensive addition to the nivcolo^ijy of the 

 C()untr\- \\•a^ made tlie following- \ear ( 1S4S) h\- I'^has l-'ries 

 (32), tlie Swedish ni)e(jlogist, who is universally rej^arded as the 

 greatest mycologist of his time. Fries in 1848 published his 

 '■ Fungi Natalensis "' in Stockhohn. These fungi \vere collected 

 by the Swedish naturalist and hunter. J. A. W'ahlberg, in Natal, 

 during 1839-40. Fries described 40 fungi from Natal, included 

 in the genera Pleiirotus, Paiiiis, Scliizuf^liyHnni. J.cn.citcs. Pol\- 

 ponis. TraiJictcs. Ifr.nu/oitid. Piwolus, Thclcponis, (iHCpinia, 

 Cladodrrris, Slcrcitm. Corflcriiiii. HInicoIa, Troiirlla. Gcasicr, 

 I .\i'(>pcrdi>ii. and Lanopila. 



This paj^er also recorded live fungi which were collected 

 by Zeyher at Uitenhage. These were sent by Prof, (iitstav 

 Kuntze to Fries, and were referred l)y the latter to the genera 

 Amauita, Lcpiola and Mycciia. 



This brings us to the close of the first ]jeriod of South 

 African mycology, and for over 20 years little that was fresh or 

 of any note appeared in literature dealing with this aspect of the 

 flora of the country. 



The second period, which we may regard as the growth of 

 the science of mycology in South Africa, coincides very closely 

 with that ])eriod which is generally looked upon as the dawn of 

 modern mycology, and is attributed to the extraordinary stimulus 

 in this branch of research, resulting from the publication of De 

 Bary's classical Avork. " Morphologic und Physiologic der Pilze " 

 in t866. 



Peter Mac( )wan arrived at the Cape a few years after the 

 publication of Darwin's " ( )rigin of Species," and his ftmgi from 

 the " Boscbberg." near Somerset Fast, soon became famous and 

 much coveted. One of the first ])apers dealing with these fungi 

 a])i)eared in 1875 in the German publication. " Flora." by Felix 

 von Thuemen (87). a mycologist of considerable re])ute. Five 

 subsequent pai>ers by the same author, entitled " Fungi Austro- 

 Africani," were ]>ublished by 1878. These dealt with 127 species 

 collected by Mac( >wan chiefly in the locality mentioned above. 



After a lai)se of over 30 vears. Miles Joseph fjcrkeley (5) 

 in 1876 again identified himself with two remarkable and essen- 

 tially South .\frican fungi, viz. : KaJchhrcuncra Tiickii Berk, and 

 MacOicauiics uf/ariciinis Kalch. These two plants had been sent 

 by MacOwan to Kalchbrenner. ihe Hungarian mycologist, who in 

 turn had forwarded a figure of Kalchhrenncra and a section of 

 klacOa'dnilcs. together with the discoverer's notes to Berkeley. 



Kalchbrenner. in the same vear, 1876. ])ublished an account 

 and descri])tion of these two fungi in " Hedwiigia." 



Kalclibrcnucra Tuckii Berk, belongs to the group of fungi 

 commonly known as Phalloids. It is usually found growing in 

 sandy soil, and is from 4 to () inches in height. The receptacle 

 is hemis])herical, and is divided into 10 to 15 ])right scarlet nail- 



