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appeared in a record of some 2,809 species,* to which subsequent: 
additions have been made, to an extent of probably not much 
less than 200 species,f which would bring the total to about 
3,000 species. The result is that no material difference exists 
between our flora and that of Northern France, Belgium, and 
Scandinavia, except that in the latter there are a larger number 
of Hymenomycetal forms. The latest estimates of the flora of 
Scandinavia are contained in the works of the illustrious Fries, 
but these are not sufficiently recent, except so far as regards 
the Hymenomycetes, for comparison of numbers with British 
species. 
The flora of Belgium has its most recent exponent in the post- 
humous work of Jean Kickx; but the 1,370 species enumerated 
by him can hardly be supposed to represent the whole of the 
fungi of Belgium, for in such case it would be less than half the 
number found in the British Islands, although the majority of 
genera and species are the same. § 
For the North of France no one could have furnished a 
more complete list, especially of the microscopic forms, than 
M. Desmaziéres, but we are left to rely solely upon his papers in 
“ Annales des Sc. Nat.” and his published specimens, which, 
though by no means representative of the fleshy fungi, are doubt- 
less tolerably exhaustive of the minute species. From what we 
know of French Hymenomycetes, their number and variety 
appear to be much below those of Great Britain. || 
The mycologic flora of Switzerland has been very well investi- 
* Cooke's ‘‘ Handbook of British Fungi,” 2 vols. 1871. 
+ ‘‘Grevillea,” vols. i. and ii, London, 1872-1874. 
t Fries, ‘‘Summa Vegetabilium Scandinavie” (1846), and ‘‘Monographia 
Hymenomycetum Suecie” (1863); *‘Epicrisis Hymenomycetum Europ.” (1874). 
§ ‘* Flore cryptogamique des Flanders’’ (1867). 
|| ‘‘Ainé Plantes Cryptogames-cellulaires du Départment de Saone et Loire” 
(1868) ; Bulliard, “ Hist. des Champignons de la France” (1791); De Candolle, 
“*Blore Frangaise” (1815); Duby, ‘‘ Botanicon Gullicum” (1828-183); Paulet, 
**Tconographie des Champignons” (1855); Godron, ‘‘ Catalogue des Plantes 
Cellulaires du Départment de la Meurthe” (1845); Crouan, ‘‘Florule da 
Finistére”’ (1867) ; De Seynes, ‘‘ Essai d'une Flore Mycologique de la Région de 
Montpellier et du Gard ”’ (1863). 
