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 Sphtsria hebarum and Cladosporium herbarum, Hirneola 

 auricula-judace, Polyporus versicolor, Euroiium herbariorum, etc. 



In New Zealand a large proportion have been found, and these 

 may be taken to represent the general character of the fangi 

 of the islands, which is of the type usually found in temperate 

 regions.f 



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,J a few species obtained by 

 M. Perottet in Pondicherry, and 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 afford 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 

 3 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." 



X Berkeley, "Sikkim Himalayan Fungi," in Hooker's "Journal of Botany" 

 (1850), p. 42, &c. 



§ Montagne, " Cryptogaiuse Neilgherrensis," in '■ Ann. des Sci. Nat." 2 me ser. 

 xviii. p. 21 (1842). 



i| Junghuhn, "Premissain Floram Crypt. Javte." 



H Zollinger, " Fungi Archipalegi Malaijo Neerlandici novi." 



