PHYTOLOGY. 



list or pungi found within the province of 



MORAY, CHIEFLY IN THE VICINITY OF FORRES. 



By the Rev. J. KEITH, M.A. 



The following list is intended as a contribution towards the filling up of 

 what has hitherto been a total blank in the flora of this district. In pre- 

 paring it I have been more anxious that it should be accurate so far as it 

 goes, than that it should be extensive, and have excluded not a few species 

 which I have observed, but about which I am more or less in doubt. It 

 contains several species which had not been met with previously in this 

 country. Most of these have been determined by the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, 

 whose exceeding kindness in helping beginners has done and is doing 

 so much to promote the study of this difficult and hitherto much neglected 

 department of botany. I am under similar obligations to Mr. Worthington 

 G. Smith of London. 



To save repetition in the list I may add here that all the species from 

 Gordon Castle were collected and kindly forwarded to me by Mr. John 

 Webster, gardener at the Castle. 



I. HYMENOMYCETES. 



I. AGARICUS, L. 

 (i). AMANITA, Pers. 

 Vaginatus, Bull. Woods. Common. Var. albida (A. nivalis, Grev.) 



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occurs on Cairngorm. 

 Phalloides, Fr. Woods. Common. Sanquhar, &c. 

 Muscarius, L. Woods. Very common. 

 Excelsus, Fr. Woods. Rare. Dunphail. 

 Strobiliformis, Fr. Borders of woods. Very rare. Found once at 



Coulmony. 

 Rubescens, P. Woods. Very common. 



(2). LEPIOTA. 



Procerus, Scop. Woods and waste places about Forres. Common. 

 Rachodes, Vitt. Rare. This species has occurred regularly for 

 several years in one spot, in Sanquhar wood near Manachie. 



