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extended to four Hymenomycetes, eleven Ast0mycetes,a.nd two imperfect 

 forms, of which one proved new to science. Of these, two of the 

 Hymenomycetes are usually found on the soil, and may have grown up 

 through the rug. The various species are named, and the order in 

 which they showed themselves is stated. 



Good King- Henry. In "The Naturalist " (1904, pp. 369-375) 

 is an interesting paper by Mr. Walter Johnson, of which this plant 

 (Chenopodium Bonus-Henricus, L.) is the subject. The name is 

 discussed, and the author is disposed to regard it as from the 

 German Gitter Heinrich, or the Dutch Goeden Hendrik, which 

 Grimm regards as derived from association with Heinrich as a 

 frequent name for elves or kobolds. In Lincolnshire it is called 

 Marquery or Markery. In Lincolnshire and other English counties 

 it is used frequently like spinach. Mr. Johnson thinks it must be 

 looked on as introduced by man into England. It has still less 

 claim to be accepted as native in Scotland. 



On a New Sub-var. of Poa annua, Z., in Wigtown. In iSSi 

 I found on the sandy shore of Stranraer Bay a perennial form 

 of Poa annua which was so different from the type as to be named 

 Schlerochloa maritima by the critical botanist. It remained among 

 some queries in my herbarium till I recently saw it belonged to the 

 above species. Prof. Hackel recently reports it as a new and 

 interesting form for which he proposes the name P. annua, L., var. 

 supina, Reichb. sub- var. condensata, Hack., differing from the 

 ordinary variety by the branches bearing spikelets from a little above 

 the base. G. C. DRUCE. 



Hypoerea rieeioides in New Galloway. At a meeting of the 

 Edinburgh Microscopical and Field Naturalists' Society on 2ist 

 December last Mr. James M 'Andrew exhibited specimens of a rare 

 fungus, Hypoerea rieeioides. He found it first in 1878 near New 

 Galloway on dead stems of the willow, and afterwards in four 

 different localities within a diameter of eight miles round New 

 Galloway. Mr. M 'Andrew was the first to find it in Scotland, and 

 the only person who has as yet found it on this side of the Border. 

 It was found in England in 1790, and as D. M. C. Cooke, in his 

 " Handbook of British Fungi," gives Halifax as the locality, this may 

 be the place where it was found in 1790, but no date is given. 

 The plant is figured and described by Bolton. It was found by 

 Tode, who figures it under the name of Acrosperma achenoides in his 

 " Fungi of Mecklingburg." L'Amy found it near Limoges, and his 

 specimen is figured by Dr. Montague in " Annales des Sciences 

 Naturelles" for 1836, who did not, however, identify it with the 

 plant of Bolton. These are probably the only occasions on which 

 this rare and interesting species has been found. A short account 

 of it appears in the " Scottish Naturalist " of July 1878, p. 304. 



