1910] THAXTER—CHILEAN FUNGI 433 
best condition the curious fructifications which sometimes hung 
by dozens from their under sides. 
It had just rained heavily as I stepped into these dripping. 
_ woods, and I shall not soon forget the first day that I passed in 
them amid almost a surfeit of new botanical sensations. Not 
_ trees were covered with unfamiliar lichens. One small filmy fern 
_ Was common; but, in marked contrast to the forests farther north, 
___ hepatics were not abundant or conspicuous, with a very few excep- 
___ tions like Lepidolaena magellanica, which covered fallen logs in many 
_ places. Mosses were abundant, especially along the ravine, and in 
the woods about the mine I found the lovely Dissodon mirabile Car- 
dot, growing in tufts on cow dung, often in company with Tayloria 
_ Dubyi Broth., and conspicuous from its large pearly-white hypo- 
. _ physes. 
Apart from the rather meager gatherings brought back by the 
various expeditions which have visited the Magellan region, our 
knowledge of its fungi is largely due to the fruitful investigations 
of Professor CaRLos SPEGAZZINI, an active collector and keen 
_ observer, whose published papers on the fungus flora of Tierra 
del Fuego and southern Patagonia bear witness to the varied 
character of this flora even in a portion of the forest much farther 
south; and this, too, notwithstanding the fact that a large portion 
of his collections were lost by shipwreck. During my stay on the 
Straits, although my collecting grounds were very limited and the 
forest so difficult of access, I was able to recognize a considerable 
number of the forms described by SPEGAZZINI, as well as certain 
Others not included in his enumeration, or referred to, as far as I 
have been able to ascertain, in the works of other students of 
antarctic fungi; and it is the object of the present note to give 
Some account of several of the latter, which were among the first 
that I met with in these fascinating woods. 
On returning along the Rio de las Minas from my first excursion 
to the beech forest, I noticed on many of the smaller trees of 
had assumed a bushy habit, but occasionally, also, on the lower 
