The Scottish Naturalist. 203 



Sphoeria (Sporomia) Notarisii. Car. Rabh. Fung: Eur. 976b. 



Perithecia black, rather shining, ovoid or rounded ; ostiola 

 wart-like or mamillaeform ; asci cylindrical, octosporous ; sporidia 

 tetramerous, brown, not apparently surrounded by a hyaline 

 coat — Hedwigia, 1868,/. 69, /. i,fig. 1. 



On grouse dung. R'ann< >ch. Dr. Buchanan White. 



Sporidia , o22- , 026 x •oo4- , oo5 m.m. ; segments of the sporidia 

 *oo5-'oo6 m.m. long. 



Sphoeria (Sordaria) curvula. D. By. Morph. Pilze, p. 209. 



Perithecia scattered, superficial, or rarely semi-immersed, 

 oblong-conical, rugulose, densely clothed with articulate fasci- 

 culate brown hairs ; asci broad, cylindrical, stipitate ; sporidia 

 ovate or elliptic, dark brown, with hyaline terminal appendage ; 

 paraphyses articulated, longer than the asci. — Sphceria sterco- 

 raria, Fungi Britt. i. 589. 



On cow dung. King's Lynn (C. B. Plowright). Rannoch 

 (Dr. Buchanan White). 



Sporidia '029 x .015 m.m., without appendage. 



Bryological Notes.- Mr S. A. Stewart, of Belfast, who knows more about 

 the Geology and Botany of the north east of Ireland, than any other man 

 now living, has recently published a list of the Mosses of that district. The 

 list is an admirable one, contai s many important species, and very largely 

 extends our knowledge of their geographical distribution in that region. 

 Among the more important species mentioned are Cryphcea heteromalla, 

 Hypnum giganteum, Hyp. ha nulosum, Hyp. Teesdalii, Hyp. punnlum, 

 Tayloria serrata, Zygodon cone lens, Z. saxicola {Z. Stirtoni Sch. ), Gly~ 

 phomitruim Daviesii, Grimmi robusta, Hechuighivi imberbe, Grimmia 

 coiiferta, Trichostomum tortile, 1 cttia littoralis, Seligvria calcarea, and many 

 others. The district ought to i a rich one, and should furnish more than 

 the 238 species here enumerated, which is only about half the number found 

 in the north-east of Scotland, and we do not doubt but that continued 

 search on the spot will yet revc I the existence of yet more and interesting 

 species. Might we venture to hope that some one will do for the north- 

 west of Ireland what Mr Stewa: •:. has done for the north-east ? As yet the 

 the north-west is almost unknown to us, so far as its mosses are concerned. 

 — J. FERGUSSON, The Manse, Fern, near Brechin. 



Manual of Bryology.— I should feel much obliged to all collectors of 

 mosses were they to send me sj cimens of any rare mosses or records of 

 localities for such, before I finish che manuscript of "the Manual of British 

 Bryology. — Id. 



