THE 



CANADIAN EECOED 



OF SCIENCE. 



VOL. IX. JULY, 1903. No. 2 



Canadian Fungi. 



By Robert Campbell, D.D., M.A. 



Thus far the reports of the Geological Survey of Canada 

 have not listed the fungi of the Dominion. No very con- 

 siderable number of this family of plants found in Canada 

 has been reported or published hitherto. In the '■' Canadian 

 Naturalist," Vol. II. (New Series), issued in 1865, there is 

 found, pp. 390-3, "A Provisional Catalogue of Canadian 

 Cryptogams," by Mr. D. A. P. Watt, which includes a list 

 of the "Alliance Fungales " of our country, as known at 

 that date. Those collecting at that time had, however, 

 confined themselves mainly to the microscopic forms. 

 Since then Mr. J. Dearness, of London, Ontario, has pro- 

 secuted the study of the latter, the Physomycetes ; but his 

 collections have been reported mainly in American 

 magazines, although two papers from him bearing on this 

 subject have appeared in this journal (Volumes V. and 

 VIII). The undersigned list, collected partly at Cap-a- 

 L'aigle, in July and August, 1902, and partly around 

 Montreal, in September and October, 1902, and from 

 August to October, 1903, embraces 129 species. Of these 

 only about 25 are mentioned in Mr. Watt's catalogue, 

 without any information as to where and when they were 

 found. 



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