270 The Scottish Naturalist. 



Agreeing with the figure of Albertini and Schweinitz. The species varies 

 greatly ; specimens obtained previously were not in a normal condition. 



* Craterelhis lutescens, Fr. Ep. p. 630. Rannoch, Perthshire, Dr. 

 Buchanan White. The hymenium of a beautiful orange. Sent at the 

 same time with very characteristic specimens of Cant/iarellus lutescens. 

 [Cantharellus lutescens is common in the Black Wood, but the Craterelhis 

 occurred only under one pine tree. Craterelhis sinuosns occurred amongst 

 birches in Rannoch.] 



1575. Thelephora clavularis, Fr. Ep. p. 634. On the ground. Wallington, 

 Northumberland, C. H. Spencer Perceval. We have lately received from 

 Dr, White specimens which would be referred to "this species were it not 

 for the strong foetid scent of T. tolmata. 



1576. T. intybacea, Pers. Syn. p. 567. Amongst Teiraphis pellucida. 

 Burnham, Rev. G. H. Sawyer. Glamis, Rev. J. Stevenson. Exactly 

 answering to Bulliard's figures, tab. 483. figs. 6 &. J, tab. 278, and quite 

 distinct from T. laciniata. 



1578. Siereum vorticosum, Fr. Ep. p. 639. On beech. Menmuir, Rev. 

 M. Anderson. 



1579. S.pini, Fr. Ep. p. 643. On bark of Scotch fir. Glamis, Rev. 

 J. Stevenson. 



1580. S. riifnm, Fr. Ep. p. 644. Glamis, Rev. J. Stevenson. Rev. J. 

 Keith . 



1581. Cprticium salicinum, Fr. Ep. p. 647. Forres, Rev. J. Keith. 

 This is certainly the same with Exidia cinnabarina, A. & C., which has 

 the curved spores of Exidia . We have not sufficient specimens of the 

 European form to justify us in separating it from Corticium, to which 

 genus it can scarcely belong. 



1582. C.amoiphum> Fr. Ep.p:648. Onlarch. Perth, Dr. Buchanan White. 

 [On dead spruce branches lying on the ground — there were larch branches 

 at the same place but only Peziza calycina was seen on them — in a grove 

 of silver firs, behind the hamlet of Corsie Hill near Perth. * In the same 

 grove many interesting fungi have occurred of which I hope to give some 

 clay a list in the Scottish Naturalist.'] This curious plant is so like large 

 specimens of Peziza calycina that it is not surprising that the two should 

 have been confounded, and in consequence the plant figured by Willkomm 

 under the name is really P. calycina. We were at first inclined to think 

 that it might be a conidiiferous form of the Peziza in question, analogous to 

 Cyphdla Currei ; but the structure is such as to make us consider it 

 autonomous, and probably the type of a new genus ; for it does not agree 

 well with the characters of Corticium. The substance is white and fleshy, 

 consisting of rather coarse threads which at the base form a close sclerotioid 

 network. The hymenium consists of colourless threads and orange coloured 

 clavate bodies filled with pigment. These at length project beyond the 

 surface, and produce four globose rough spores, "001 inch in diameter, 

 which contain an angular body within, which looks like a cystolith. After 

 a time each spore becomes elliptic, and now measures *ooi2 inch in length, 

 produces about eight elliptic echinulate sporidia in its cavity, which are 



* Since the above was in type I have found Corticium amorplnnn on dead silver fir 

 branches on Moncreiffe Hill. The peculiar structure of this fungus, as described above 

 by Messrs. Berkeley & Broome, from specimens gathered in autumn, is equally well 

 shown by these vernal examples. — F. B. W. 



