Botany. 215 



Section I. BASID10MYCETES. : 



Class I. AUTOBASIDIOMYCETES. 

 Group I. Hymenomycetes. 



This, the Agaric Section, contains a huge number of specific 

 forms. It was very fully treated by T. Howse, F.L.S., in the Journal 

 of Botany, 1879, but as we can neither supplement, correct nor 

 confirm the records, we have decided to omit them for the reasons 

 given above. 



Group 2 Gasteromycetes. 



The same remarks apply to this group as the last. 



Class II. PROTOBASIDIOMYCETES. 

 Group 1. Uredineae. 



This is a group of parasitic fungi, giving rise to diseases in higher 

 plants. The records given below are either by the L.C.C. Botany 

 Department, Avery Hill, 19061907 (Eltham district), or by 

 Rudolf Beer, F.L.S., Bromley Naturalists' Society, 19001907 

 (Bromley district) ; they are very imperfect, and many common 

 moulds and mildews have been omitted, but if they stimulate 

 further inquiry, they will have served their purpose. The 

 published records are very old and of historical interest only, 

 and as the appearance of many of these diseases is uncertain 

 after a few years, and sometimes even in the following season, 

 we have decided to omit all reference to them. Those wiio desire 

 further information about these records may consult the following 

 works : 



1. M. C. COOKE, Handbook of British Fungi, 1871, etc. 



2. First Report of the Botanical Committee of the Green- 



wich Natural History Club, 1857. The iccords cf the 

 Fungi are by the late Mr. CURREY, F.L.S., but exact 

 localities are not given. 



3. Journal of Botany, 1879, where T. HOWSE, F.L.S., has 



collected the records of COOKE and CURREY. 



4. The Victorian History of Kent, now in course of publica- 



tion, which gives a concise summary of these records 

 (E. M. HOLMES, F.L.S.). 



CAEOMA mercurialis, Wint. Common on Dog's Mercury. 



COLEOSPORIUM campanula, Lev. On cultivated Campanulas > 

 Avery Hill. 



C. euphrasiae, Schum. On cow-wheat ; roadside, Keston. 



