ig6 The Scottish Naturalist. 



Two other plants not at all uncommon in Scotland — Calluna 

 and Erica — have not been satisfactorily examined. It would 

 occupy too much time to enumerate all the species separately 

 which should be sought on these and other common plants, 

 such as the species of Vaccinium, Sfiircea, Alchemilla, &c, and, 

 indeed, it would take more time to prepare a satisfactory list 

 than was at my disposal in the preparation of these notes. 



It will perhaps be objected that these suggestions are too 

 fragmentary to be of much service, and this is doubtless true ; 

 but, as no intimation reached me that a communication would 

 be acceptable until only a few days remained before the journey 

 to Perth had to be commenced, this must be accepted as an 

 earnest of good-will and a desire to assist, even though in- 

 efficiently, the Mycologists of the north. 



CKYPTOGAMIO SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND. 



THE first annual conference of this Society was held at Perth, on 

 Sept., 29th and 30th, and October 1st, 1875, and was fairly 

 successful. As a report of the conference has been already published, it is 

 not our intention to give here more than a brief account of the proceedings. 



The first day was devoted to excursions in the neighbourhood of Perth — 

 Moncreiffe Hill, Scone Woods, and Dupplin Woods, being visited by different 

 parties. Though by this plan more ground was searched than would other- 

 wise have been the case, yet it seems to us that it might have been preferable 

 for all the botanists to have united in one party, and thus given an opportunity 

 to those from different parts of the country of making each other's acquaint- 

 ance : (and more than one day might have been devoted to the excursions 

 with great advantage). Another matter may here be alluded to, and that is 

 the desirability on another occasion of so arranging matters that all the 

 visitors to the Conference may have a common meeting place in the evenings, 

 for the examination of specimens and for conversation. Under the circum- 

 stances it was impossible to make any arrangement for this being done, 

 chiefly because the various members were located (through the kind 

 hospitality extended to them) in various places more or less distant from a 

 common centre. 



The second day was fully occupied. The forenoon was devoted to the 

 arrangement of the specimens. In the afternoon the Business Meeting was 

 held. After the election of various honorary, corrresponding, and ordinary 

 members, Kelso was selected as the place at which the conference of 1S76 

 should be held. It appears doubtful to us whether it would not have been 

 more advantageous to have selected a larger town than Kelso for the place 

 of meeting, but on behalf of Kelso, it was urged that it was a place very 

 accessible from all parts of the south of Scotland, and that it was moreover 

 the centre of a district probably very prolific in cryptogamic plants. The 

 following papers were then read : — " On certain probable Scottish Fungi' 

 by M. C. Cooke, LL.D., editor of Grevillea. This will be found at p. 190- 



