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Acer campestris — Common maple. Gaelic and Irish : craobh 

 7nhalip or ?na/pais ; origin of name uncertain, but very likely 

 from ma/, a satchel or a husk, from the form of its samara. Some 

 think the name is only a corruption of 7/iaJ>/e — Anglo-Saxon, 

 viapal. Welsh : inasarnen. Gothic : viasloenn (from mas, fat), 

 from its abundance of saccharine juice. 



A. pseudo-platanus — Sycamore. Gaelic and Irish : craobh sice, 

 a corruption from Greek sycaminos. The old botanists errone- 

 ously believed it to be identical with the sycamine or mulberry-fig 

 of Palestine. 



" Nam biodh agaidh creidiiiih, theiradh sibh ris a chraobh shicamin so, 

 bi air do spionadh as do fhreumhaibh." — Stuart. 



If ye had faith ye might say to this sycaijiore tree^ Be thou plucked up by 

 the root. — St Luke xvii. 6. 



Craobh pleantrinn, corruption of platanus or plane-tree. Irish : 

 crahfi bdfi, white tree. Fir chrann, same meaning. 

 The badge of Clan Oliphant. 



( To be continued. ) 



PKELIMINARY LIST OF THE TUNai OF PEETHSHIRE.i 



By F. BUCHANAN WHITE, M.D., F.L.S. 



AS the first volume of the ' Flora of Perthshire ' is not yet 

 quite ready for the press, and as, consequently, a consider- 

 able time must elapse before the secorid volume (treating of the 

 cryptogamic portion of the flora) can be prepared, some account 

 of the present state of our knowledge of the fungi of this large 

 county may prove interesting and not be altogether devoid of 

 use to students of mycology. At the same time it must be re- 

 membered that this list is not more than what its title implies — a 

 preliminary list. When the county has been more extensively 

 and systematically explored, many additions may be expected to 

 be made to the list. In fact, it is not at all improbable that 

 twice as many species as are at present known to inhabit Perth- 

 shire may yet be detected in the county. 



The sources of information whence this list has been compiled 

 and the districts examined are the following : The district round 

 Perth partially examined by some of the cryptogamic botanists 



1 Communicated to the Cryptogamic Society of Scotland, at the Forres 

 Conference, September 1879. 



