GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. 283 
Gardner in Drazil,* Gaudichaud in Chili and Pern,t Gay in 
Chili,t Blanchet in Bahia,§ Weddell in Brazil,|| and Auguste 
de Saint Hiliare 1 in the same country. Small collections have 
also been made in the extreme south. All these collections 
contain coriaceous species of Polyporus, Favolus, and allied 
genera, with Auricularini, together with such Ascomycetes as 
Xylaria, and such forms of Peziza as P. tricholoma, P. Hindsii, 
and P. macrotis. As yet we cannot form an estimate of the 
extent or variety of the South American flora, which has fur- 
nished the interesting genus Cyttaria, and may yet supply forms 
unrecognized elsewhere. 
The island of Juan Fernandez furnished to M. Bertero a good 
representative collection,** which is remarkable as containing 
more than one-half its number of European species, and the rest 
possessing rather the character of those of a temperate than a 
sub-tropical region. 
Australasia has been partly explored, and the results embodied 
in the Floras of Dr. Hooker and subsequent communications. 
In a note to an enumeration of 235 species in 1872, the writer 
observes that “ many of them are either identical with European 
species, or so nearly allied that with dried specimens only, 
unaccompanied by notes or drawings, it is impossible to separate 
them ; others are species which are almost universally found in 
tropical or sub-tropical countries, while a few only are peculiar 
to Australia, or are undescribed species, mostly of a tropical type. 
The collections on the whole can scarcely be said to be of any 
great interest, except so far as geographical distribution is con- 
cerned, as the aberrant forms are few.” +f 
* Berkeley, in 6‘ Hooker’s Journal of Botany” for 1843, &c. 
+ Montagne, in “ Ann. des Sci. Nat.” 27¢ sér. vol. ii, p. 73 (1834). 
t Gay, ‘‘ Hist. fisica y politica de Chile” (1845). 
§ Berkeley and Montagne, ‘‘ Ann. des Sci. Nat.” xi. (April, 1849). 
\| Montagne, in ‘* Ann. des Sci. Nat.” 4™° sér. v. No. 6, 
{] Montagne, in ‘‘ Ann. des Sci. Nat.” (July, 1839). 
** Montagne, ‘‘ Prodromus Flore Fernandesiane,” in ‘t Ann. des Sci Nat.” 
(June, 1835). 
+ Berkeley, ‘On Austrulian Fungi,” in “Journ. Linn. Society,” vol. xiii. 
(May, 1872). 
