Professor Marshall Wards’ opening address in Section K of the 
British Association, should be carefully studied by Mycological 
students, as amongst other subjects, it contains a summary, in chrono- 
logical sequence, of the important discoveries that have raised the 
study of Mycology to the high standard it presents at the present day. 
The address is contained in “ Nature,” Sept. g and Sept. 16, 1897. 
The “Kew Bulletin” for April, 1897, contains under the title, 
“Mycologic Flora of the Royal Gardens, Kew,” an account of the 
fungi that have been collected in the grounds. These amount to 
1,340 species, included in 337 genera. Some of these have certainly 
been introduced, as for instance Aserde rubra, Chitonia rubriceps, &c. 
On the other hand, truly indigenous species are also abundant; in 
the genus Russula, fifty-two, out of the sixty-one British species, have 
occurred in the gardens. Probably no other known area of equal 
dimensions—-300 acres—has been shown to produce such a rich 
Mycologic Flora, even after the forty introduced species are deducted. 
Little or nothing is recorded up to the present respecting the 
Mycology of the Channel Islands. During the past season, thanks 
to the intervention of Mr. E. D. Marquand, numerous consignments 
of Fungi have been forwarded to Kew for determination, from 
Guernsey. Over 500 species have been determined, several of which 
are new to Britain, and three, Clitopilus Sarnicus, Mass., Verticillium 
Marquandii, Mass., and Omphalia Luffit, Mass., are new to science. 
The preponderance of species belonging to the genus Hygrophorus 
is remarkable, and the Channel Islands must be considered as a new 
area, rich in species, and interesting as forming a link between the 
Mycologic Floras of England and France. 
The form-species, Botrytis Douglasii, Tubeuf, must be added to 
the British list of destructive fungus parasites, young specimens of 
Sequoia gigantea, killed by this fungus, having been received at Kew 
for examination. 
