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I rarely see the species near the city, hence I was the more surprised 

 when, during a walk in May through the parish of Maryculter, a 

 few miles up the valley of the Dee, I found a very healthy plant 

 growing on the thatch of a cottage which had been left to decay. 

 Both sporangia and separable buds were present in plenty, so the 

 peculiar habitat seemed likely to be colonised by the Clubmoss. 

 JAMES W. H. TRAIL. 



Sareoseypha protraeta (Ft-.} Sacc. In " Grevillea " (1890, p. 

 83) this fungus was recorded as British, under the name Lachnea 

 mirabilis, Borscz., a clump of the elegant small cups having been 

 found by me in April 1890 on the bank of the Dee, near Ballater, 

 in short turf, and reported as Anthopeziza Winteri, Wettst., under 

 which name it was described and excellently figured in the 

 "Verhandl. Zool. Bot. Gesellsch.," Wien, 1886, p. 383, pi. 16, 

 enabling me to identify it as new to Britain. I reported it in the 

 "Scottish Naturalist" (Oct. 1890, p. 384) as Lachnea mirabilis, 

 having been informed by Mr. Phillips of the identity of A. Winteri 

 with this; but in the "Scottish Naturalist" of Jan. 1891, pp. 34-35, 

 I corrected this to the earlier specific name protraeta given by Fries. 

 In Saccardo's " Sylloge Fungorum " it is placed in the genus 

 Sareoseypha. 



My specimens are preserved in the botanical museum in the 

 University of Aberdeen. I am not aware of its having been found 

 again in the British Islands until April 1910, when Miss J. L. Legge, 

 a student of advanced botany, after graduating B.Sc., picked up, 

 during a short holiday at Ballater last winter, various plants, which 

 were shown to me for assistance in their identification. Among 

 them were two or three of the very characteristic cups of S. protraeta, 

 rediscovered after twenty years near the place where it was pre- 

 viously found. JAMES W. H. TRAIL. 



CURRENT LITERATURE. 



The Titles and Purport of Papers and Notes relating to Scottish Natural 

 History which have appeared during the Quarter April-June 1910. 



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ZOOLOGY. 



NOTES ON THE MAMMALS OF ISLAY. J. A. Harvie- Brown, 

 Zoologist, April 1910, p. 157. Refers to the occurrence of the 

 Common Shrew and the Lesser Shrew in Islay, and a White Otter 

 in Jura. 



