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appeared in a record of some 2,809 species,* to which subsequent 

 additions have been made, to an extent of probably not much 

 less than 200 species,t which would bring the total to about 

 3,000 species. The result is that no material difference exists 

 between our flora and that of Northern France, Belgium, and 

 Scandinavia, except that in the latter there are a larger number 

 of Hymenomycetal forms. The latest estimates of the flora of 

 Scandinavia are contained in the works of the illustrious Fries, J 

 but these are not sufficiently 'recent, except so far as regards 

 the Hymenomycetes, for comparison of numbers with British 

 species. 



The flora of Belgium has its most recent exponent in the post- 

 humous work of Jean Kickx ; but the 1,370 species enumerated 

 by him can hardly be supposed to represent the whole of the 

 fungi of Belgium, for in such case it would be less than half the 

 number found in the British Islands, although the majority of 

 genera and species are the same. 



For the North of France no one could have furnished a 

 more complete list, especially of the microscopic forms, than 

 M. Desmazieres, but we are left to rely solely upon his papers ill 

 " Annales des Sc. Nat." and his published specimens, which, 

 though by no means representative of the fleshy fungi, are doubt- 

 less tolerably exhaustive of the minute species. From what we 

 know of French Hymenomycetes, their number and variety 

 appear to be much below those of Great Britain. || 



The mycologic flora of Switzerland has been very well investi- 



* Cooke's "Handbook of British Fungi," 2 vols. 1871. 



f " Grevillea," vols. i. and ii. London, 1872-1874. 



J Fries, "Summa Vegetabilium Scandinaviae'' (1846), and " Monograpliia 

 Hymenomycetum Suecise" (1863); "Epicrisis Hymenomycetom Europ." (1874). 



" Flore cryptogamique des Flanders" (1867). 



i| "Aine Plantes Cryptogames-cellulaires du Department de Saone et Loire " 

 (1863) ; Bulliard, "Hist, des Champignons de la France " (1791) ; De Candolle, 

 "Flore Fran^aise" (1815); Duby, "Botanicon Gallicum" (1828-1830); Paulet, 

 " Iconograpbie des Champignons" (1855); Godron, "Catalogue des Plantea 

 Cellulaires du Department de la Meurthe" (1845); Crouan, " Florule dn 

 Finistere" (1867) ; De Seynes, " Essai d'une Flore Mycologique de la R6gion de 

 Montpellier et du Gard " (1863). 



