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Undnula Bivonce, Lev., on Ulmus=6 r . clandestina (Biv. Bern.), 

 Schrot, not yet known from Scotland. 



U. Tulasnei, Fuck., on Acer, is referred as a variety to U. Aceris. 



Microsphccra Dnbyi, Lev., on Lonicera \ i\r AJ 



j..- j. . /,,, ,, \ T m /-as varieties to i\i. silni. 



M. divancata (Wallr.), Lev., on Rhamnus j 



Oidium Titckeri, Berk., on the vine is determined as belonging to 

 Undnula necator (Schwein), Burr. 



MICROSPH^RA BAUMLERI, Magnus ("Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Gesell.," 

 xvii., p. 148, pi. 9, figs. 17-18, 1899): Salmon (Mem. Torrey 

 Bot. Club, ix., 1900, pp. 170-173, figs. 52-55). Hypophyllous 

 (very rarely amphigenous); mycelium subpersistent or evanescent; 

 perithecia more or less densely gregarious in floccose patches 

 covering the surface of the leaf, globose-depressed, becoming 

 hemispherical, 80-150 ^ in diameter, appendages 8-20, usually 

 8-14, 4-6 times (as long as) the diameter of the perithecium, 

 flaccid, penicillate when mature, smooth or slightly rough, 

 colourless, thick-walled at base, apex about 3 times dichoto- 

 mously branched when mature, branching vague and lax, 

 branches of the higher orders more or less irregularly placed, 

 tips of the ultimate branches not recurved; asci, 4-12, ovate 

 to oblong, usually shortly stalked, 55-70 x 30-38 p, ; spores 4-6 

 (8 recorded by Magnus), 20-22 x 10-12 /j.. 



Distribution. Scotland, Italy, Austria-Hungary, Germany, Russia. 



M. Bdumkri is very closely related to M. Astragali, from which 

 indeed it seems to differ in little more than the more frequent 

 branching of the tips of the appendages, and further investiga- 

 tion may show them to belong to one species. It is the only 

 species of the family observed by Salmon on Vitia sylvatica. 

 This vetch is very frequently covered with the mildew in its 

 habitats on the coast of Kincardine, at Aberdour in N. Aberdeen- 

 shire, and at Gamrie in Banffshire. 



ZOOLOGICAL NOTES. 



Martens in the Nopth-west Highlands. I have received infor- 

 mation regarding the capture of two more examples of the Marten 

 (Mustela martes) namely, a male at Ullapool in West Ross-shire on 

 3rd April, and another, also a male, taken in the parish of Assynt 

 in West Sutherland, on the 6th of the same month. J. A. HARVIE- 

 BROWN. 



Badger in Argyllshire. On the 2oth of April a fine male 

 Badger (Meles taxus) was trapped on Ben Cruachan. I saw the 

 keeper carrying the animal on his back, and learned from him that 



