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The Scottish Naturalist. 



Unusual tolooming of tlie Hawthorn. — I herewith enclose a spiig of haw- 

 thorn, pulled this morning from the hedge between my house and Easter 

 Moncreifife. Upon the same plant there are about a dozen similar sprigs, all 

 having the peculiarity of pi-oducing the flowers at the ends of young shoots, a 

 circumstance never before observed by me. — William Bisset, Moncreifie, 

 29th September 1879. 



New and rare British Fungi. — During a visit to Rannoch last September, 

 I found some specimens of Ustilago siicciscv, a species not hitherto found in 

 Britain. It is parasitic on the anthers of Scabiosa siiccisa, which are filled 

 with the white spores, rendering the parasite rather conspicuous.- During 

 the meeting of the Cryptogamic Society at Forres, I found some plants of 

 Polypodiiim zndgare attacked by the parasitic Alilesia polypodii, a species 

 hitherto found only by myself in Perthshire. At Cawdor, a single specimen 

 of Physarum siiuiosiiiii Bull. , occurred to me. This species has not, I believe, 

 been found in Scotland since recorded by Greville in the ' Scottish Crypto- 

 gamic Flora.' 



In Rannoch, Rhytisma enipetri was more abundant this year than I have 

 yet seen it. — F. Buchanan White. 



New and rare Fungi found at the Meeting of the Cryptogamic Society 

 at Forres. — Although the season was on the whole an unfavourable one, 

 especially as regards the growth of the larger fungi, some interesting dis- 

 coveries were made. 



The following species, new to the British Flora, were discovered : Hydnum 

 scabroswn Fr. ; Hypomyces violaceiis Tul. ; and Helvetia infida Schaefif. 



The following are new to the Flora of Scotland : Hypomyces chrysospei'??tiis 

 Tub, of which Sepedonitim chrysospermwn is the conidioid form, gathered in 

 Britain previously only once, in England, where it was discovered last year by 

 Mr Berkeley ; Peziza echinophila Bull. ; and P. pnlveracea Lib. 



Among species which are interesting on account of their infrequency or 

 rarity, the following may be noted : Agaricus {Amanita) mappa Yx. ; 



A. {TriclioloJtia) sejunctus Sow. ; A. [Oniphalia) demissus Fr. {A. rufulus 



B. and Br.) ; A. {Pleiirotus) po?-rigens Pers. ; A. {Pholwtd) erehitis Fr. ; A. 

 {Ftaj?ijnnla) carbonarhis Fr. ; Co7'tinariiis {Inolovia) traganiis Fr. ; Russiila 

 Quetetii Fr. ; Marasmiiis Hitdsoni Fr. ; PolypoTits Schiveinitzii Fr. ; P. sul- 

 phureus Bull. ; P. reticidatiis Pers., found in Britain previously only once ; 



Trametcs pini Brot. ; Hydmini compnctiim Pers. ; //. aitraniiacuni A. and S. ; 

 //, feri-ugineiim Fr. ; H. fragile Fr. ; //. gravcolens Delast. ; Sistostrema con- 

 fltiens Pers. ; Cyphella vntscigcna Fr. ; Exidia rccisa Ditten. ; IJndbladia 

 cjfiisa Ehr. ; Anthina Jlaniniea Fr. ; Stilbum orbiciitare B. and Br., growing 

 abundantly on Lindbladia cffusa ; Peziza pygmcva Fr. ; /'. stfobiliiia Yx. ; 

 Patellaria discolor Mont. ; and Gnomonia {Splucria) coryli Batsch. 



I have since found Peziza strobilina at Glamis, growing abundantly on 

 fallen fir-cones. 'J'he plant, which may be easily overlooked, is perhaps not 

 uncommon. — J. Stevenson, Glamis, November 1S79. 



