234 GUERNSEY 
FUNGI. 
THE present list of Guernsey fungi was compiled under excep- 
tionally favourable circumstances. Three or four years ago I was 
engaged on special cryptogamic work at the Kew Herbarium, and 
Mr. George Massee, F.L.S., the Chief of the Department, one of the 
most experienced of living mycologists, having kindly offered to 
name for me any fungi from Guernsey, I wrote to some of my friends 
in that island requesting them to send me all the fresh specimens 
they could possibly procure. This appeal was responded to so 
promptly, and with such hearty goodwill, that within twelve months. 
the list had attained its present dimensions. 
To Mr. Massee I am deeply grateful for his never-failing readiness 
to examine the large parcels of fresh fungi which I submitted to him 
several times a week; and, as a voucher for the accuracy of this 
list, it is sufficient to state that not only every species, but specimens. 
from each locality noted in these pages (several thousands in the 
aggregate), were individually examined and identified by Mr. Massee. - 
It gives me pleasure to record that the whole of the fungi now 
enumerated were collected and forwarded to me by Mrs. Marquand, 
Mrs. Boley, Miss Boley, Miss Bowman, Miss Dawber (now Mrs. 
Lewis), Miss Domaille, Miss Royle, and Messrs. W. Cameron, S. 
Chutter, A. Collenette, G. Derrick, T. Domaille, J. S. Hocart, H. 
Le Lacheur, W. A. Luff, A. Quick, J. B. Randell, and T. C. Royle. 
To all these ladies and gentlemen I desire to return my sincere 
thanks. 
Many agarics are so extremely uncertain in their appearance that 
I have thought it best to specify all the localities in which a species 
has occurred. But the rule of priority has been strictly adhered to. 
The person’s name first given indicates the discoverer of the species 
in this island, and the first locality mentioned is always the one 
where the earliest specimen was found. 
The fungi of Guernsey now recorded comprise 612 species. 
HYMENOMYCETES. 
J.—AGARICINEAE. 
Amanita phalloides, Fr. 
Very poisonous, causing a large percentage of the deaths due to 
fungus-poisoning. Moulin de Haut, Catel (Le Lacheur). 
Amanita rubescens, Fr. 
Edible. Anneville, St. Saviour’s (Le Lacheur). 
