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of Weissia cirrhata, but I had my suspicions, for I had found Weissia 

 cirrhata growing almost always in roundish tufts. I turned my lens 

 upon the plant, and found the apex of the leaf and the back of the 

 nerve distinctly serrated, and knew that I had found Dicranum flagel- 

 lars or Dicranum montanum. It afterwards proved to be the latter, 

 new to Scotland, and found in a second British locality. If such good 

 things are found in less than four hours, and in only a morsel of Craighali 

 Den, how much may be expected when the whole Den is subjected to a 

 patient and thorough exploration. Remarkably little attention has as yet 

 been paid to the cryptogams along the course of the Ericht, and not only 

 Craighali Den, but the Dens of Drimmie and Kingseat must contain 

 many rarities. — J. Fergusson, The Manse, Fern, Brechin. 



Ulleriore, of Spynie Loch, Elginshire. — A notice, or query, regarding 

 this plant, and of similar import to that in the Scottish Naturalist p. 79, 

 was sent to Loudon 's Magazine of Natural History, 1 83 1, vol. iv., p. 

 188. No information was given in reply. In the notice will be 

 found an extract, in Latin, from Bishop Leslie, where the plant is 

 called Olorina. Why it was translated Ulleriore, in the survey of the 

 province of Moray, is not known. Typha latifolia was suggested as likely 

 to have been the plant meant by the Bishop. It was once abundant in the 

 Loch of Spynie. An inroad of the sea at the time of the Moray floods 

 (1829), almost killed it out. It again revived and spread its roots, when 

 some years afterwards the flow of the tide was excluded ; but now it has 

 almost disappeared, with the beautiful lake itself, through the progress of 

 agriculture. Scirpus lacustris, Arundo phragmiles, Sparganium ramosum, 

 Potamogdons, &c. , were also frequent in and around the same extensive sheet 

 of water. — G. Gordon, Birnie, Elgin, April 1875. 



Peziza stevensoni. — In the notice of "Recently Described Scottish 

 Fungi" in our last number, this fungus, discovered by the Rev. J. Steven- 

 son, was accidentally omitted. 



THE CRYPTOGAMIO SOCIETY OP SCOTLAND. 



IN accordance with the notice given in April last (Scot. Nat. III. 78), a 

 meeting was held at Perth on April 16th, and attended by botanists 

 from various parts of Scotland. Dr. Buchanan White, convener of the 

 committee, occupied the chair, and after the report of the committee had 

 been received and a Constitution adopted, a Society under the title of the 

 " Cryptogamic Society of Scotland " was founded, and the following office- 

 bearers elected : — 



President— Sir T. Moncreiffe, of Moncreiffe, Bart., President of the 

 Perthshire Society of Natural Science. 



Vice-President— -Geo. Dickie, M.D., F.L.S., Professor of Botany, Univer- 

 sity of Aberdeen. 



