22 The Scottish Naturalist. ^ 



much weight is to be attached. I have referred to Ag. storca described by 

 Fries as "W//'<i';7>/J'," but fasciculate when identified by Mr. Worthington 

 vSmith. Two species mentioned above may also be cited as examples. 

 Ag. eiichTotis has been found at Dinmore only in single specimens. The 

 three specimens which I found at Killin were so attached that the plant 

 might be described as, at least, sub-csespitose. It is characterised by 

 the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, in his "Outlines of British Fungology," 

 as "crespitose," while, in his " Hymenomycetes Europsei," Fries says 

 — " Equidem semper legi solitarium ; . ex auctoribus ccespitosus. " Ag. 

 caput-Afednscr I have gathered both solitary and, as described by Fries, 

 '*sub-ca:spitose." Ag. scohinacetis was decidedly fasciculate, while Fries 

 describes it as "sub-crespitose;" and the plant, which was exactly inter- 

 mediate between the two, was exceedingly fasciculate. Generally, the 

 descriptions may hold good ; but they are scarcely to be regarded as of 

 much importance in cases of difficulty. — ^John-Stevenson. 



CEYPTOGAMIO SOCIETY OP SCOTLAND. 



FROM the great scarcity of Fungi, as well as from other 

 reasons, the Council of this Society determined not to 

 have any public show in 1876, but to meet in some district 

 which seemed likely to repay exploration, and there hold the 

 Second Annual Conference. 



Killin was accordingly selected as the meeting place, and a 

 very pleasant gathering took place there on September 26 and 

 following days. Fungi were very scarce, but, by diligent 

 searching, specimens enough were found to make the meeting 

 not altogether unprofitable. 



Oi Hymawniycetcs., 166 species were found and determined, 

 including the rare Omphalia pictus Fr. and Lcptonia cethiops 

 Scop., two species new to Britain, which were sent by the 

 Rev. J. Stevenson to Mr, Berkeley, and My cam plicosns 

 Fr,, an unrecorded British species, which, however, had 

 been found near Perth the previous year. Among other 

 notable Hymcnomycetcs were the beautiful little Mycena pteri- 

 gcnus, not uncommon on dead fern stems, with Pistillaria 

 pubenda ; Lcptonia eiichroiis, of which one or two speci- 

 mens were found on a stump in Glen Lochay; Cortiuarius 

 claricolor. Glen Lochay (and Kippendavie, near Dunblane). 

 Ilygrophorus cifierens, Boletus cyaucscens, Polyporus giganteus, 

 F. tntybaceus, liydnuvi udum, Phlcbia incrismoides, Odontia 

 Ji/nbriata, Clavaria aincthyst'ma, C. pistillaris. 



