VII. – Fungi

[The Fungi collected in Kerguelen Island amount to 9 or 10 (the tenth being still an undetermined form). Dr. Hooker obtained 2 species in the winter (May and June) 1840; Mr. Moseley 3 in addition to the same, during summer (December and January) 1873-4; Mr. Eaton, also in summer, 5 determinable species, and 1 that could not be identified (see footnote), besides the species found by Dr. Hooker. Until a few days before Midsummer (i. e. Christmas) no Fungi were seen in the vicinage of the English Observatory Bay. The first to appear was the common mushroom, a single specimen of which was found on an island in the sound by some officers from H. M. S. “Volage.” Later in the summer the other four species came up in a few places on the mainland. They were not by any means of frequent occurrence, and probably scarcely any of them would be found at the time of year corresponding with the date of Dr. Hooker’s visit to the island.—A. E. Eaton. ]