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II. — Recent Additions to the Fungi op Coitnties Dublin and 

 "Wicklow. By Geeentvood Pim, M.A., E.L.S. 



[Read, May 28, 1883.] 



In tlie early part of 1878, by request of the Committee appointed to 

 prepare the Guide to County Dublin, in connexion with the British 

 Association meeting of that year, I compiled a list^ of the Fungi which 

 had been recorded from County Dublin and County Wicklow, as it 

 was thought desirable to include the latter in the fauna and flora of 

 the district. 



As I then pointed out, this catalogue was extremely imperfect, 

 being little more than a transcript of my own notes made within a 

 short time, and with almost no opportunity of check. A short list of 

 less than a dozen species collected in Powerscourt, which I received 

 from the Bev. M. J. Berkeley, was not included, but will be found 

 appended to this Paper. 



In very many instances, the species enumerated in my own list 

 were identified merely from description, as Dr. Cooke's beautiful illus- 

 trations of the Helvellacei and Agaricini had not been published, and 

 time did. not permit my consulting other works than those in the JS^a- 

 tional Library of Ireland, which are not of very recent date in many 

 cases. 



During the five years which have elapsed since the meeting of the 

 British Association, some sixty additional species have come under my 

 notice, although from various reasons I have been able to devote very 

 little time to the study of Fungi. I am quite sure there are a large 

 number still unrecorded. 



Of these additions, I wish to draw the attention of the Academy to 

 a few of the more remarkable forms, several of which are, so far as I 

 have been able to ascertain, undescribed, at least in any work to which 

 I have access. 



Passing by some twelve or fourteen Agarics and allied species, I 

 would note the occurrence of Polyporus giganteus last summer in 

 Powerscourt. It was an enormous specimen, growing layer above layer 

 in an imbricated manner, and forming a tuft nearly three feet in clia- 

 meter, of a light buff, flecked with chestnut colour, and very pretty. 

 It grew at the root of a large beech tree. In the same demesne near 

 the Waterfall, I collected the Beefsteak Fungus, Fistulina hepatica, on 

 an old oak. 



^ Proceedings Royal Dublin Society, n. s., vol. i., p. 283. 



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