78 THB VICTORIAN NATURALIST 
issued the same year, and of course not counting over 50000 
synonyms then furnished by him also. 
The descriptions given by Dr. Saccardo merely of the tribe of 
Pyrenomycetes (not one of the largest group of fungs) from 1882- 
1883 occupy not less than 1648 large-octavo pages irrespective of 
indices. Indeed we find now-a-days, when evascular plants from all 
parts of the globe require to be connectedly investigated, when very 
slight differences are deemed sufficient for specific demarcation, and 
when repetitive resemblances among these forms of vegetable life 
have been shown to be often widely dispersed, that the mycologist 
can no longer work even with real advantage on Algs, or Lichens, 
or Mosses, each of which now extensive group requiring not only a 
particular devotee, but also a life-long study of that particular field, 
over which for progressive reliable work, proportionate to the sacri- 
tice of time, the command is to be exercised. 
LIST OF FUNGACEOUS PLANTS, 
Obtained by the Botanic Department of Melbourne from 1882 to 
1884 as New for Victoria. 
Compiled from successive records furnished by 
Dr. M. C. Cooxn, M.A. 
Agaricus clypeolarius, Bulliard (Lepiota) 
melleus, Vahl (Armillaria) 
ditopus, Fries (Clitocybe) 
infundibuliformis, Fries,  ,, 
radicatus, Relhan (Collybia) 
nivosulus, Berkeley, ,, 
trachycephalus, F. vy. M. and Kalch. (M/ycena) 
galericulatus, Scopoli ,, 
luteo-albus, Fries - 
polygrammus, Fries a 
wmbelliferus, Linné (Omphalia) 
Aethiops, Fries (Leptonia) 
atro-ceruleus, Fries (Pleurotus) 
applicatus, Batsch 55 
caryophyllus, Berkeley ,, 
mutabilis, Schaeffer (Pholiota) 
peregrinus, Fries (°lammula) 
picreus, Fries A 
spumosus, I ries . 
conspersus, Fries (Naucoria) 
subglobosus, Fries ts 
pactolus, Cooke ( Crepidotus) 
fascicularis, Hudson (Hypholoma) 
eric@us, Persoon (Psilocybe) 
