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“ In addition to the effect that these applications may have on 
the development of the fungus, they will doubtless serve to keep 
off many insect pests. 
“ In storing the fruit for the winter, especial care should be taken 
to separate all the apples showing any signs of the scab from those 
which are smooth and healthy, and they should all be kept in 
rooms or cellars free from moisture.” 
These are the sum total of the recommendations which have 
been made, but we have no positive information as to the practical 
results. 
CEYLON IN AUSTRALIA. 
By the Editor. 
Curious facts in geographical distribution are constantly pre- 
senting themselves to those who have any extensive experience in 
the plants, especially the fungi of distant regions. It is of 
common knowledge that such species as Schizophyllum commune , 
Fomes lucidus , Folystictus occidentalis , Polystictus sanguineus , 
Stereum lobatum, and some others, are to be met with in all 
countries, from warm temperate to the equator, but there are 
many species which are not by any means so common, or widely 
distributed, which occur only in countries far apart, and with 
broad expanses of ocean between them. There is no better 
illustration of this than the occurrence of Ceylon species of fungi 
in Australia. This is not confined to one or two species, but is 
manifest in several species, of which we will proceed to instance a 
few. There are Agaricus ( Lepiota ) dolichaulos, B. & Br., Agaricus 
( Lepiota ) leontoderes , B. & Br., Agaricus ( Lepiota ) aspratus, B., 
Agaricus (Lepiota) lepidophorus , B. & Br., Agaricus (Lepiota) 
rhyparophorus, B. & Br., all Ceylon species of Lepiota , which 
occur also in some parts of Australia. In scarcely any other sub- 
genus of Agaricus are so many Ceylon species found outside the 
limits of the island. What are the special conditions which 
conduce to the appearance of the above species of Lepiota , indi- 
genous to Ceylon, in Australia ? 
Undoubtedly the climate of Australia is favourable to the 
growth of Boletus and Strobilomyces , but, up to the present, the 
only Ceylon species found in Australia is the gigantic Boletus 
portentosus , B. & Br. But Ceylon is not productive for Boleti, and, 
as far as we remember, this is the only indigenous species, and that 
solitary one has appeared in Queensland, quite fourteen inches in 
diameter of the pileus. 
Amongst the Folyporei there is no more marked instance than 
the occurrence of Polystictus Peradenice , B. & Br., which, as its 
name indicates, was first found in Ceylon, but has since been 
collected in most of the Australian colonies. Whatever errors of 
determination there might be with fleshy putrescent fungi, there 
is no room for doubt in this species, which is remarkable for its 
distinctive character. 
