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dixerunt. Quse transmutatio nominum e confusione minime insolita 

 speciminum, quse in herbario Linn, asservantur, evidenter orta est, 

 quare nomen a botanicis suecicis semper adhibitum heic jure re- 

 cepimus."- G. CLARIDGE DRUCE. 



Poa tiemoralis, Linn., " Sp. PI." (1753), p. 69, var. subuniflora, 

 Reichb., " Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv.," i. p. 51, t. clix. f. 403 : "Tenuis- 

 sima spiculis paucis subunifloris." This depauperated variety, or 

 form, occurs plentifully about the Corrymulzie Falls, in South 

 Aberdeenshire. Professor Hackel is my authority for the name. 

 G. CLARIDGE DRUCE. 



Scottish Fungi. Miss A. L. Smith, in her paper on "Micro- 

 scopic Fungi new to or rare in Britain," notes the following from 

 Scotland : 



* Peronospora Radii, De Bary. On leaves of Chrysanthemum 

 segetum, Dalton, Dumfriesshire, August 1894. [I gathered this 

 fungus on capitula of Chrysanthemum segetum in Orkney in 1888, 

 and on capitula of Matricaria inodora in Aberdeenshire in 1890.- 

 J. W. H. TRAIL.] 



Sporodinia grandis, Link., and Syzygites megalocarpns, Ehr. 

 On decaying fungi, Annan, Dumfriesshire, August 1896. 



* Mortierella Rostafinskii, Bref., on dead fir stump ; and M. 

 candelabrum, Van Tiegh. and Le Mon., on a fungus at Strathpeffer, 

 August 1896 ; Mr. Jenkin. 



* Piptocephalis Freseniana, De Bary. Parasitic on Pilaria on 

 rabbits' dung at Strathpeffer ; Mr. Jenkin. 



Achlya apiculata, De Bary. On mouths of Utricularia bladders, 

 Strathpeffer, Mr. Jenkin. 



CEdocephalum Preussii, Sacc., Cephalosporiurn Acremonium 

 Corda, and Cephalothedum candidum, Bon. On decaying stems, etc., 

 Annan, Dumfriesshire, August 1896. 



* Periconia pycnospora, Fres. On dead herbs and Acremoniella 

 pallida, Cooke and Massee, Annan, August 1896. 



Stachybotrys alternans, Bon. On packing-straw from Edinburgh, 

 June 1896. 



New Forms of British Rubi. The Rev. W. Moyle Rogers, 

 in the "Journal of Botany" for February (pp. 42-50), gives a full 

 enumeration of the forms of Rulnts found by himself and by his 

 son, in the summer of 1896, in five counties of Midland and West 

 Scotland, but chiefly near Callander in West Perth. They are 

 numerous, among them being four not previously recorded from 

 Britain. These are : 



" R. Scheutzii, Lindeb. ( = R- Lindebergii, P. J. Muell, var. 

 tristis, Aresch). One of the most abundant and most constant 

 brambles seen by me in Mid Scotland. West Perth exceedingly 

 common about Callander, Loch Vennachar, Lake of Monteith, 

 and between it and Aberfoyle. Mid Perth Knock of Crieff, 

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