200 The Scottish Naturalist. 



Fungi, about to appear in Grevillea. Some of the species were 

 exhibited at the Perth Fungus Show, and the others found 

 about the same time. 



Badhamia fulvescens. Cooke. 



Peridia sessile, subglobose, scattered, or 3-6 together, tawny- 

 ochre, towards the base clad with a delicate white pubescence ; 

 spores pale brown, minute, ovate. 



On old sacking. Dupplin Castle, Perth. Dr. M. C. Cooke. 



Spores ('0003 in.) '00 7 5 m.m. diam. 



The cysts investing the spores are quite distinct. I am in- 

 debted to Mr. C. E. Broome for examining this plant, and he 

 coincides in the opinion that it is undescribed. 



TJstilago intermedia. Schioter. 



Produced within the florets, violet-brown ; spores subglobose, 

 ovate, or shortly elliptic, rather large ; epispore minutely spinu- 

 lose. — Schroter in Rabh. F. Eur. No. 1696. 



On flowers of Scabiosa. Scotland. Rev. J. Fergusson. 



The spores are larger and darker than in U. flosculorum ; in 

 the latter being *oi m.m., and in the present species "015 m.m. 



Geoglossum microsporum. Cook & Peck. " Mycographia, " fig. 11. 



Var. tremellosum. 



Sporidia biseriate, cylindrical, or subfusiform, hyaline, be- 

 coming at length faintly 5-7 septate. 



On the ground. Rannoch. Dr. Buchanan White. 



This is referred to the American species as a variety, but it 

 seems to be more tremellose than the typical form, and the 

 sporidia do not flow out and cover the surface of the club ; this 

 may be accounted for in that the specimens were not so fully 

 matured. Sporidia -03 m.m. long. 



Peziza (Sarcoscypha) coprinaria. Cooke. 



Subgregarious, sessile, crimson. Cups hemispherical, soon 

 flattened (1 cm. broad) : margin slightly elevated, fringed with 

 long pale brown septate hairs ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia ellipti- 

 cal, smooth ; paraphyses clavate at the tips, filled with orange , 

 granules. 



On dung. Rannoch. Dr. Buchanan White. 



A very distinct species, exhibited at the Perth Fungus Show. 

 The cups remain flattened in drying, external cells very large, 

 hairs J m.m. long. Sporidia '02 x *oi m.m. The hairs are 

 never stellate as in P. stcrcorea, nor is the cup so densely hairy, 

 the hairs being confined to the margin. The name of P. 



