34 GUERNSEY. 
lengthy one, comprising only one-fifth of the British species, but it 
includes two which deserve notice, on account of their rarity. The 
first is Cephalozia Turnerd (one of the most minute of all the 
Hepaticae) which grows at Fermain on a gravelly bank among small 
mosses ; the second is Lophocolea spicata, an Irish species like the 
other, though it was found in England twenty years ago in one spot 
near the Land’s End by my old friend, the late William Curnow, 
one of the best hepaticologists of his day. 
The occurrence of Irish plants in Guernsey is peculiarly in- 
teresting, and should stimulate wider and more minute investigation, 
Zoologists say that the Channel Islands are included in overlapping 
zones of British and Mediterranean faunas, and that among the 
lower forms of animal life there is much to be found here that is 
peculiar both to the north-west of continental Europe and to Ireland 
and the extreme south-west of England. From a botanical stand- 
point it remains to be seen how far the Irish element is represented 
in the insular flora. 
: : Until very recently nothing was known respecting the 
unet: mycology of the Channel Islands, but recent researches 
have resulted in the compilation of a list of more than six hundred 
species for Guernsey alone. All the principal genera of the Agari- 
cineae—z.¢., Mushrooms and Toadstools—are represented. The 
occurrence of a number of species usually found in woods may be 
attributed to the circumstance that there existed formerly in the 
island stretches of forest and woodland of considerable extent. 
That Guernsey is exceptionally rich in this tribe of plants is proved 
by the fact that during four months in 1897, August to November 
inclusive, more than 450 different species of fungi were collected 
here and identified at Kew. Even in mid-winter numbers of 
Agarics are to be found, for no less than fifty-three species were 
gathered, many of them from several different localities, during the 
month of January (1898). As it serves to illustrate the mildness 
of the climate as well as the richness of the mycological flora, the 
list is worth preserving : 
Tricholoma pumilum. Russula nitida. 
exscissum. Laccaria laccata. 
nudum. Clitocybe flaccida. 
personatum. Omphalia umbellifera. 
Marasmius oreades. belliae. 
prasiosmus. rustica. 
Collybia velutipes. integrella. 
atrata. Luffi. 
confluens. Hygrophorus chlorophanus. 
Mycena tenerrima. puniceus. 
flavo-alba. psittacinus. 
galericulata. niveus. 
