A HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 



Lecanora sophodes, Ach. 



exigua, Nyl. 



subfusca, Nyl. (?) 

 - albella, Ach. 



sulphurea, Ach. 



varia, Ach. 



atra, Ach. 



parella, Ach. 



coccinea, Cromb. 



calcarea, Somm. 

 Pertusaria globulifera, Nyl. 



amara, Nyl. 



velata, forma aspergilla, 



Cromb 



communis, DC. 



Pertusaria Wulfenii, DC. 



lutescens, Lamy 

 Phlyctis agelaea, Koerb. 

 Thelotrema lepadinum, Ach. 

 Urceolaria scruposa, Ach. 

 Lecidea dubia, Borr. 



quernea, Dicks. 



parasema, Ach. 



coarctata, Sm. 



canescens, Dicks. 



Lightfootii, Sm. 

 anomala, Fr. 



lutea, Dicks. 



incompta, Borr. 



Lecidea abietina, Ach. 

 Opegrapha herpetica, Ach., 

 f. rufescens, Pers. 



atra, Pers. 



varia, Pers. 



lyncea, Sm. 



Stigmatidium crassum, Duby(r) 

 Arthonia epipasta, Ach. 

 Graphis elegans, Sm. (?) 



scripta, Ach. (?) 

 Verrucaria epidermidis, Ach. 



cinerea, Pers. 



punctiformis, Ach. 



nitida, Weig. 



FUNGI 



The Mycology of Nottinghamshire has until quite recently been a 

 much neglected study, and although various references to the fungi of 

 the county exist, the records chiefly occur in obscure publications which 

 are not readily accessible and are almost unknown to the majority of 

 workers in the subject. Our previous knowledge of this interesting 

 group of cryptogamic plants has been greatly augmented by the work 

 done in Sherwood Forest in September, 1897, by the members of the 

 British Mycological Society; indeed, the collections made on this occa- 

 sion have furnished the greater part of the material for the list which 

 follows. 



The earliest writer on local fungi was the talented Nottingham 

 physician, botanist, and historian, Charles Deering, who, in his remark- 

 able work Catalogus Stirpium, etc., published in 1738, enumerates some 100 

 or more species as occurring in the neighbourhood of Nottingham. In 

 the absence of figures or descriptions it is, however, impossible in the 

 great majority of cases to determine with any certainty the modern 

 equivalents of Deering's names ; and his records, with a few exceptions, 

 do not therefore appear in the subjoined list. 



During the next hundred years a few references to fungi appear in 

 local works, the most important being those by Thomas Jowett, a Not- 

 tingham surgeon, who, under the pseudonym of ' II Rosajo,' published a 

 series of 'Botanical Calendars' in the Nottingham Journal for 1826. 

 Those of his records which can be determined without any doubt are 

 here included. 



In 1832 and 1833 the eminent mycologist M. J. Berkeley seems to 

 have spent some time in Nottinghamshire, and noticed a number of fungi, 

 several of which were new to science. These he describes in his work 

 on British fungi which forms vol. v, part 2, of Smith's "English Flora. 



Nothing further seems to have been done until 1875, in which year 

 John Bohler contributed to White's Worksop, TheDukery, and Sherwood Forest 

 an extensive list of the fungi of that district ; and a further account of 

 the mycology of North Nottinghamshire is given by the Rev. Hilderic 

 Friend in the Transactions of the Nottingham Naturalists' Society for 1886. 



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