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be devoted to the subject, a wonderfully representative collection 

 was produced. It contained about 200 difterent species, chiefly 

 Hymciioinycetcs. It may be interesting to notice a few of the 

 rarer species contained in this collection. 



During the excursion at Penicuik, on the day previous to the 

 public exhibition, Mr C. B. Plowright was fortunate in gathering 

 a new species of Paiius^ which has yet to be described. It will 

 be recorded by the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, who determined it, in 

 the forthcoming "Notices of British Fungi" in the 'Annals and 

 Magazine of Natural History.' 



In a brief notice of the Society's meeting, contained in the last 

 number of ' Grevillea,' Dr Cooke mentions, as probably new, a 

 species of JVectria, which was growing in large patches on the 

 naked ground at Penicuik. 



Of species which have not previously been recorded as British, 

 we have to notice Ag. (Crep.) calolepis, Fr., a very pretty little 

 agaric; Polyporus spongia, Fr. {P. Herbergii, Rost.) and Crater iimi 

 Friesii, Rost. The latter was found by Mr W. Phillips at Haw- 

 thornden. It is the same as Crateriuui nutans, Fr. (Syst. Myc, 

 iii. 151), and has been figured in " Myxomycetes" (fig. 105). 



The following were of special interest, as new to our Scottish 

 Flora : Ag. inania'nns, Fr., Ag. brevipes, Bull., Ag. d7yi?ius, P., 

 Ag. alveolus, Lasch., growing on oak-bark; Ag. Phillipsii, B. and 

 Br., a very delicate little species, growing on dead grass, which 

 was identified by the discoverer, Mr W. Phillips; Ag. inujidus, 

 Fr., Cortitiarius decoloratus, Fr., Russula Queletii, Fr., Hygrophorus 

 russo-coriaceus, B. and Br., a species which may be easily mis- 

 taken, but which is readily recognised by its distinctive odour of 

 Russian leather; Cynophallus caninus, Fr., frequent in some parts 

 of England ; Peziza theleboloides, A. and S., a remarkably pretty 

 yellow species, growing in clusters on leaf-mould ; Nectria Rous- 

 seliana, Mont., an inconspicuous species on dead leaves of Box; 

 and Nectria Albertini, B. and Br., remarkable for its tomentose 

 subiculum, but not new to Scotland. The latter species was 

 gathered by j\Ir Plowright in Hawthornden. 



Some other species of particular interest remain to be men- 

 tioned : notably three which were sent for exhibition by the 

 Rev. M. J. Berkeley, — a new and very pretty species of Hygro- 

 phorus from Coed Coch, which was exhibited also at the Here- 

 ford meeting, and which he has named H. Wynnice ; Hygro- 

 phorus turundus, Fr., var. mollis ; and Hygrophorus lacmus, Fr., a 

 variety of H. subixidiatus, Schum. H. turundus, which Mr 



