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LéveillS added 87 species, making a total of 246 species. Tho 
fungi of Sumatra, Borneo, and other islands are partly the same 
and partly allied, bnt of a similar tropical character. 
The fungi of the island of Ceylon, collected by Gardner, 
Thwaites, and Kénig, were numerous. The Agarics comprise 
302 species, closely resembling those of our own country.* It 
is singular that every one of the subgenera of Fries is repre- 
sented, though the number of species in one or two is greatly 
predominant. Zepiota and Psalliota alone comprise one-third 
of the species, while Pholiota offers only a single obscure species. 
The enumeration recently published of the succeeding families 
contains many species of interest. 
In Africa, the best explored country is Algeria, although 
unfortunately the flora was never completed. The correspon- 
dence between the fungi of Algeria and Huropean countries is 
very striking, and the impression is not removed by the presence 
of a few sub-tropical forms. Itis probable that were the fungi 
of Spain known the resemblance would be more complete. 
From the Cape of Good Hope and Natal collections have been 
made by Zeyher,t Drége, and others, and from these we are 
enabled to form a tolerable estimate of the mycologic flora. Of 
the Hymenomycetes, the greater part belong to Agaricus; there 
are but four or five Polyporit in Zeyher’s collection, one of which 
is protean. The Gasteromycetes are interesting, belonging to 
many genera, and presenting two, Scoleciocarpus and Phellorinia, 
which were founded upon specimens in this collection. Batarrea, 
Tulostoma, and Mycenastrum are represented by European species. 
There are also two species of Lycoperdon, and one of Podaxon. 
Besides these, there is the curious Secotium Gueinzii. The genus 
Geaster does not appear in the collection, nor Scleroderma. 
Altogether the Cape flora is a peculiar one, and can scarcely be 
compared with any other. 
At the most, only scattered and isolated specimens have been 
* Berkeley and Broome, *‘ Fungi of Ceylon,” in ‘‘ Journ. Linn. Soc.” for 
May, 1871. 
+ ‘‘ Flore d’Algerie, Cryptogames” (1846, &c.). 
t Berkeley, in Hooker's ‘‘Journal of Botany,” vol. ii. (1843), p. 408. 
