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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, J 

 but these are not sufficiently recent, except so far as regards 

 the Mymenomy/ietes, 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. Desmazieres, but we are left to rely solely upon his papers in 

 " Annalea 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 Hymenomyceies, 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. 



J Fries, "Surama Vegetabilium Soandinaviae "' (1846), and "Monograpbia 

 Hymenomycetum Sueciae" (1863); "Epicrisis Hymenomyoetum Euvop." (1874). 



§ " Flore cryptogamique des Flanders" (1867). 



|| "Ainc Plantes Cryptogames-cellulaires du Departnnnt de Saone et Loire" 

 (1863) ; Bulliard, " Hist, des Champignons de la France " (1791) ; De Candolle, 

 "Flore Franeaise" (1815); Duby, " Botanioon Gallicuin " (1828-1830); Paalet, 

 " Iconographie des Champignons" (1855); Godron, "Catalogue des Plantes 

 Cellulaires du Department de la Meurthe" (1845); Crouan, " Florule dn 

 Finistere " (1867) ; De Seynes, " Essai d'une Flore Mycologiiue de la Region de 

 Montpellier et du Gard " (18R1). 



