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ROYAL B0TA1!^IC GARDENS, KEW. 



BULLETIN 



OF 



MISCELLANEOUS INFORM ATIOX 



No. 



[1915 



XXXV.— ON A COLLECTION OF FUNGI FROM 



AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. 



E. M, Wakefield. 



(UITII PLATES.; 



Cook 



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together witli McAlpiue's "Systematic List" of 1895, summarised 

 fill that was known at that time with regard to Australian 

 fungi. Since then McAlpine has puhlished much critical work 

 on the Uredineae and lower fungi, especially such as are parasitic, 

 and in other groups i^attered additions to the list have been 

 recorded. For Queensland only, a useful enumeration of tbe 

 species known is given in Bailey's "Comprehensive Catalogue of 

 Queensland Plants" (1909-19 13). Apart from such additions, 

 however, very little has been done witJi regard to the Basidio- 

 niycetes since the publication of the two general works mentioned, 

 and the same remarks ai)])ly in even greater degree to the fungi 

 of New Zealand, the higher forms of which, as far as known, 

 were brought together in Massee's two papers on the Fungus 

 Flora of New Zealand (Trans. New Zeal. Inst. 189S, 190T). 

 In the case of many species, therefore, it is desirable that previous 

 records should be confirmed or corrected in the light of more 

 recent work. The working out of a collection made by Mr. W. 

 N. Cheesmau, of Selby, during the visit of the British Associa- 

 tion to Australia in 1914, and presented by him to Kew, has 

 afforded an opportunity of increasing our knowledge as to some 

 species, and also of adding several new records to the already long 

 list of fungi known from tbe region, while at the same time 

 reducing others to synonymy. Mr. Cheesman succeeded m r^etting 

 togethe? a considerable collection in the time at his disposal, 

 especially of Folyporaceae and Thelephorace^e toMi famibe.s 

 ^.:..,:'^:,. 0+*.,.+,',^.. wn« naid. Abundant material was sent of 



particular attention was paid. Abundant mnterial was sent ( 

 Lch species, and in . addition _ to those n^^^^^^^^^^ 



'S 



species 



possible to name satisfactorily. In the following list both common 

 and less-known species are enumerated, but synonyms are not 



(4065.) 



species 



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