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forth any novel theories, but will confine myself mainly to 

 observations on the interest of the subject, on the method 

 to be pursued in studying it, and on the desirability of more 

 of us applying ourselves to it. This will be the most useful 

 and practical way perhaps in which I can deal with it to-day. 

 In looking over our volumes of printed Transactions, I 

 find the notices of Fungi to be very scanty. But before our 

 Club was instituted, Dr. Johnston, its founder, had in his 

 " Flora of Berwick-upon-Tweed," published in 1831, included 

 a very considerable number of Fungi found by himself in 

 this neighbourhood — indeed as many as could have been 

 expected, considering the very limited helps to identification 

 then at his disposal. Among others, though it is not included 

 in that list, he found a very remarkable little Omphalia, 

 which, so far as I know, has never been found since, but 

 which Berkeley described and drew at the time, and which 

 still goes by the name which Dr. Johnston gave it, Ac/aricus 

 Bell ice, after Miss Bell of Springhill, Coldstream. Confin- 

 ing ourselves, however, to our own Transactions, I find that 

 for the first thirty -two years of the Club's existence, though 

 during that time long lists of Mosses and of Lichens had 

 appeared in their pages, and even one or two notices of 

 Algre, there are but three Fungi mentioned — one in 184G, a 

 very handsome Pholioto, found by one of our Honorary 

 Members, Miss Hunter of Anton's Hill, Agaricus caperatus ; 

 another, Botrytis umbellata, Decand. — a mould, not 

 before recorded for Britain, which Dr. Johnston found 

 in his own greenhouse in 1847 ; and a third, a new 

 Peziza described by Berkeley in our second volume — Peziza 

 rudis — and found in the Pease Dean. But in the year I860 

 evidence was given that Fungi were not being altogether 

 neglected by our members. Mr Archibald Jerdon contri- 

 buted then a long list of Fungi found by him in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Jedburgh, a considerable number of which were 

 new to botanical science. That list he supplemented by two or 

 three shorter lists in subsequent years. Since his lamented 

 death a few other similar lists have appeared of Fungi, which 

 had escaped his notice. That is, so far as I have been able 



