284 FUNGI. 
The fungi collected by the Antarctic Expedition in Auckland 
and Campbell’s Islands, and in Fuegia and the Falklands,* were 
few and of but little interest, including such cosmopolitan 
forms as Spheria heburum and Cladosporium herbarum, Hirneola 
auricula.judae, Polyporus versicolor, Eurotium herbariorum, ete. 
In New Zealand a large proportion have been found, and these 
may be taken to represent the general character-of the fungi 
of the islands, which is of the type usually found in temperate 
regions.t 
The fungi of Asia are so little known that no satisfactory 
conclusions can be drawn from our present incomplete know- 
ledge. In India, the collections made by Dr. Hooker in his 
progress to the Sikkim Himalayas,t a few species obtained by 
M. Perottet in Pondicherry, aud small collections from the 
Neilgherries,§ are almost all that have been recorded. From 
these it may be concluded that elevations such as approximate 
a temperate climate are the most productive, and here European 
and North American genera, with closely allied species, have 
the preponderance. The number of Agaricini, for instance, is 
large, and amongst the twenty-eight subgenera into which the 
genus Agaricus is divided, eight only are unrepresented. Casual 
specimens received from other parts of India afford evidence 
that here is a vast field unexplored, the forests and mountain 
slopes of which would doubtless aflord an immense number of 
new and interesting forms. 
Of the Indian Archipelago, Java has been most explored, both 
by Junghuhn|| and Zollinger.§ The former records 117 species 
in 40 genera, Nees von Esenbeck and Blume 11 species in 
8 genera, and Zollinger and Moritzi 31 species in 20 genera, 
making a total of 159 species, of which 47 belong to Polyporus. 
* Hooker's ‘‘ Cryptogamia Antarctica,” pp. 57 and 141, 
Hooker's ‘‘ New Zealand Flora.” 
+ Berkeley, ‘Sikkim Himalayan Fungi,” in Hooker's ‘‘ Journal of Botany” 
(1850), p. 42, &e. 
§ Montagne, ‘‘Cryptogamee Neilgherrensis,” in ‘‘ Ann. des Sci. Nat.’ 2™° sér, 
xviii. p. 21 (1842). 
|| Junghubn, ‘‘ Premissa in Floram Crypt. Jave.” 
“I Zollinger, ‘* Fungi Archipalegi Malaijo Neerlandici novi.” 
