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than the conidia of the Entyloma formed on the surface of the 

 leaf. 



This Entyloma is exceedingly abundant on R. Ficaria wherever 

 I have looked for it, and doubtless is so almost everywhere. It is 

 exceedingly distinct from the true E. Ungerianwn of De Bary. 



On the same leaves with it I have found with singular frequency 

 Peronospora Ficarice developed, the two fungi often occupying the 

 same spot of the leaf. Indeed, so constantly have I found the 

 two on the same leaf that it was some time before I found a leaf 

 that contained one without the other, and I was for a time inclined 

 to suspect some genetic connection between them. But more 

 extended investigation showed that they were not so universally 

 associated as that belief would require to corroborate it. 



While writing on Entyloma, it may not be amiss to mention 

 that I am persuaded that we have a much larger number of species 

 in Scotland than is generally suspected, since several are known to 

 occur without producing any remarkable external deformity of the 

 host. I have myself found cells of Entyloma in dead flower-stalks 

 of Plantago lanceolata and of Hypochceris raJicata, and have seen 

 what looked much like them in the dead tissues of other plants 

 also. James W. H. Trail, M.D. 



BOTANICAL 1T0TES. 



Trifolium agrarium L.— -Last July, in company with Messrs Sturrock and 

 Knox, I saw several plants of this species between Fingask Loch and Blair- 

 gowrie, but not native, as they had been introduced with "seeds." As a 

 casual plant, I have seen it in central England in newly laid down grass fields, 

 but it does not appear to be permanent. 



Cares vesicaria, var. dichroa, Anders.— A sedge which I found on the 

 Killin side of Ben Lawers in July, 1874, anf l which I at first thought to be 

 C. pull a, and afterwards considered an Alpine variety of vesicaria, Mr. Ar. 

 Bennet has recently determined to be C. vesicaria b. dichroa, Anders, not pre- 

 viously recorded as British. 



G. C. Druce, F.L.S. 

 Oxford, 23rd? May, 18S4. 



NOTES EKOM THE " GAKDEKERS' CHBONIOLE." 



"Resting Spores of the Lilac Fungus" (Ovularia Syringee Berk), by 

 W. G. Smith (Oct. 6, 18S3), describes the method of cultivating the fungus. The 

 affected leaves were laid one above another in a broad plate ; a little water 



