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Additions to Mr. Broome’s List of Fungi of the Bath District. 
Communicated by G. NormAN, F.R.S.A., Ireland. 
Scattered through various volumes of the Proceedings of the 
Bath Field Ciub is a valuable series of papers by the late 
Mr. Broome on the Fungi found in the neighbourhood of Bath, 
the last of these papers bearing the date of March, 1885. 
Since Mr. Broome’s death in 1886, the number of described 
species of Fungi has been nearly doubled, and it has become 
desirable to try to bring these local lists up-to-date, as far as 
possible. 
I have been fortunate in inducing Mr. Baker, of Claverton, a 
keen field mycologist, to look over Mr. Broome’s lists and to com- 
pile a list of the fresh species found by him. The specimens. 
have been nearly all obtained in Claverton Woods and Manor, 
and the identifications have been verified by Mr. Cedric Bucknall, 
who is a well known authority on the Fungi of the Bristol 
district, and the author of a catalogue of the same published 
originally in the Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalists’ Society. 
Forty-six species, representing 23 Genera, have been collected 
by Mr. Baker, and of these nearly half belong to the great 
group of the Hymenomycetes, which includes such well known 
families as the Agaricinez and the Polyporez. 
Of these families the Agaricinee or gill-bearing Fungi are, as. 
might be expected, most largely represented, 15 species having 
been added to the already existing list, and of the Polyporez or 
pore-bearing Fungi, six new species have been found. Of the 
other families of this group only isolated specimens have so 
far been added. 
Since Mr. Broome’s death not only has the number of 
described species of Fungi been increased, but the view as to the 
life, history and position in nature of these organisms has been 
much modified. The Fungi are now considered by many 
Mycologists to be derived from the Algz, the point of departure 

