Clare Island Survey. 



13 

 FUNGI. 



By CABLETON EEA, B.C.L., M.A., and SIE HENEY C. HAWLEY, Bakt. 





Plate I. 







Read January 



22. Published 

 CONTENTS. 



Mauch C, 1912. 







I'AGE 







PAGE 



1. Preface . . . 



1 





Mainland Aeea. 





Clake Island. 







S. Introduction, 



. 12 



2. Introduction, 



. 3 





6. List of Species, 



. 14 



3. List of Species, . 



. 6 





7. Notes on the list, . 



. 2a 



4. Notes on the list, 



. 10 



1. Pr 



SFACE 







The present report deals with the fungi observed by ourselves and others who 

 were so good as to assist us, on Clare Island and the adjoining mainland. 

 Though we both visited the district several times, we had no opportunity of 

 working together, and our chief collecting was done in different areas and at 

 different seasons, Carleton Eea exploring the Westport district, with excur- 

 sions as far as Castlebar, Achill, and Belclare, while H. C. Hawley made Clare 

 Island his headquarters, doing some collecting also about Achill Sound, 

 Louisburgh, Belclare, and Westport. In view of these considerations, and the 

 fact that the fungus floras of Westport and of Clare Island, the two areas 

 chiefly studied, differ widely in character, we have thought it well to present 

 our report in two sections, the one dealing with the island flora, and drawn 

 up by H. C. Hawley, the other treating of the flora of the mainland, and 

 presented by Carleton Eea. 



The work of the Clare Island Survey was carried out in what, so far as 

 Fungi are concerned, was a quite unexplored area. From the whole of the 

 county of Mayo, indeed, only two species were on record when Adams and 

 Pethybridge published their "Catalogue" in 1910.' In fact, in the same 

 publication less than 100 species are assigned to the whole province of 

 Connaught, out of 1,400 species recorded for Ireland. This arises from the 



1 A Census Catalogue of Irish Fungi. Pioc. R. I. Acad., xxviii., Sect. B, No. 4. 

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