ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
No. 124.] APRIL. [1897. 
DLIII.—MYCOLOGIC FLORA OF THE ROYAL 
GARDENS, KEW 
The area of the Royal Gardens is a little more than 250 acres. If 
some adjacent pieces of Royal property are thrown in the total is some 
300 acres, or nearly half a square mile. Taken with the Old Deer Park 
to the south, the whole space is singularly isolated, bounded as it is oa 
three sides by the bend of the river sweeping round from Kew to 
Richmond, and on the other by the high road between these two places. 
Of the Royal Gardens themselves some 100 acres is little disturbed by 
a kind of cultivation, a d it has UT remained so for at least a 
century and a half. Som Mole never possibly have been 
subjected to cultivation at all. It is no ib ont ng therefore that in the 
reri d of korticnitiral treatment there still subsists a wild fauna and 
ra of no inconsiderable dimensions. This, as opportunity offers, it is 
to work out and catalogue from time to time. 
Nicliohion, A.L.S., the present Curator, enumerated the flowering plants 
ceeurring spontaneously i in the Journal of Botany for 1875. striking 
peculiarity of this list “is the very small number of nataralised 
exotics.’ 
lier the case of Fungi, as will be sean from the following enumeration 
Mr. G. Massee, F.L.S., Principal Assistant in the Herbarium, t the ease 
is iis different. 
The following euumeration of 337 genera and 1340 "oce io d 
the richness of the Mycologie Flora of the Royal Garden ich far 
surpasses in point o of numbers, as also in the variety a rare te onem, 
ing species, any other record for an equal are 
This is pe — what would be icc iE when the large annual 
influx of pla o Kew from all quarters of the globe is taken into 
voir Sus ang es this means microscopic fungi, parasitic or saprophytic 
on plants, are introduced in a living condition on the various ea 
whereas the higher forms belonging to the Agaricinee and 
Gastromycetes are usually introduced along with soil, or frequently on 
the trunks of tree-ferns, either in the form of spores, or in an 
ae ra condition. 
It worthy of note that the Polyporee and Thelephoree, so 
abundant in tropical regions, are absent from the list as introduced 
u 98272. 1875.—8/ 97. Wt. 6k E. & S. A 
