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113 British, 20 European species which may be expected to 

 occur in this country, 95 Tasmanian species of European type, 

 19 subtropical, with 28 of extra- European type — Chilian, Ant- 

 arctic, and Tasmanian. If New Zealand be the point of com- 

 parison, we have in 158 species 48 British species, G European, 

 3 cosmopolites, 19 tropical and subtropical, with a few from 

 various localities, 42 new species of European forms, 5 Aus- 

 tralian forms and 28 subtropical, or, in other words, 58 tropical 

 and subtropical types, including all that are not European, and 

 100 European. The proportion of European types is, there- 

 fore, much larger in Tasmania than New Zealand, though we 

 have still a large proportion in the latter locality. Even in 

 tropical countries — that is, tropical not only as to latitude but 

 as to climate, for with high elevations we may have alpine 

 seasons — we always find a certain though variable proportion 

 of European species. In Cuba, for instance, there is a fourth, 

 in Java a third, while in the Philippine Islands there is only 

 a twentieth of such species. Amongst these are a few species 

 found in every part of the globe. 



The scope of this work does not admit of any closer com- 

 putation, though materials are not wanting for fuller compa- 

 risons than have yet been made. Still much yet remains to 

 be done amongst tropical Fungi. Those of the greater part 

 of India, for instance, except as regards the Himalayas, are 

 almost unknown. It must be remembered, however, that alti- 

 tude has more to do with the presence of particular species 

 than latitude. As regards the Sikkim Himalayas, for ex- 

 ample, we have in the hissing hot valleys towards their base, 

 truly tropical species; higher up are subtropical species of 

 Ceylon and Java ; then those of southern Europe ; while as 

 you ascend, multitudes of species either identical with or 

 closely allied to northern European species make their ap- 



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