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But the credit of being the first serious investigator of the group belongs 

 to Templeton, who collected and named 232 species prior to the year 1800. 

 No account of this collection, however, was given to the world until the 

 year 1840, when Dr. Taylor re-examined Templeton's .specimens, and publi.shed 

 an account of them in the " Annals of Natural History " under the title 

 " Catalogue of the species of Fungi obtained in the North of Ireland by 

 John Templeton, Esq., of Cranmore, Belfast. 



Much earlier, however, as regards the date of publication, was a list of 

 fifty-four species, chiefiy from County Dublin, published by Wade, in his 

 " Plantae Eariores," in 1804. 



The next advance was made in the south, when a list of 218 species for 

 the County of Cork was prepared by Mr. Denis Murray, and published, in 

 1845, in the " Fauna and Flora of County Cork." 



A few years later, in 1852, W. T. Alexander published a list of 256 

 species found in the neighbourhood of Cloyne in the same county.' 



The next extension of our knowledge was made by the late 

 Mr. Greenwood Pirn, in connexion with the visit of the British Association 

 to Dublin in 1878, when a list of 470 species found in Dublin and Wicklow 

 was prepared for the " Handbook " issued in that year. 



In the North of Ireland a still further advance was made by Lett, in his 

 " Fungi of the North of Ireland," published a few years later, in which 580 

 species are recorded ; while, about the same time, Pim published an 

 important paper on the " Fungi of Glengariff and Killarney." 



Extensive additions to the Fungal Flora of Counties Dublin and Wicklow 

 were made subsequently by Pim and McWeeney, in a series of papers from 

 1883 to 1898; while McWeeney added many new species in connexion with 

 the excursions of the Dublin Naturalists' Field Club to different parts of the 

 country. 



An important list by Carleton Eea of 160 species additional to those 

 already known for Dublin and Wicklow was the outcome of the British 

 Mycological Society's visit to Dublin in 1898. 



Since that date Johnson and Pethybridge have been working chiefly at 

 the parasitic species attacking cultivated plants ; while a few other 

 investigators have added new species from time to time. Special mention 

 must be made of an important paper by Father Torrend, in 1908, containing 

 70 species not previously recorded for the Counties of Dublin and AVicklow. 



The foregoing are the most important sources of our information relating 

 to the distribution of Fungi in Ireland. Other shorter contributions to the 

 subject will be found in the Bibliography 



' We lire indebted to Miss M. C. Knowlea for calling our attention to the existence of this list. 



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