The Scottish Naturalist. 1 1 7 



MYOOLOGIA SOOTIOA. 

 By Rev. JOHN STEVENSON. 



{Continued from page 39.) 



2173. Hydnum acre Quel. Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 1877, /. 



324, /. vi. fig 1. B. gn Br., No. 1893. 



Pileus fleshy, compact, turbinate then flattened, tomentose, then 

 bristling with hairy tufts, tawny-bistre, more brown in the centre ; 

 flesh greyish or bistre, fragile and bitter ; teeth grey-bistre, with the 

 tips whitish; stem short, grey, bistre-colour at the base; spores very 

 rough, tawny, '006 mm. The pileus and flesh are of the colour of a 

 jonquil, tinted with bistre or olive. The taste is bitter and peppery 

 at the same time. 



In pine-woods. 



East. Moray 



West. 



Forres. Rev. J. Keith. 



Europe. 



2174. Exobasidium rhododendri Cr. Grevillea, viii. p. 8. 



Forming sub-globose or irregular fleshy nodules, resembling galls, 

 of a bright reddish colour ; spores cylindrical, "008 mm. 



Among Hymenomycetes of doubtful affinity. 



On shoots and leaves of Rhododendron ferrugineum. 



East. Tay 



West. 



Perth. Sesrsrieden. Dr B. White. 



'&& 



England. Europe. 



* Leptothyrium pictum B. & Br. Mycol. Scot. p. 210. 

 Perth. Dr B. White. 



2175. Sphaeropsis malorum Berk. C. Hbk. No. 125 1. 



On stored apples. Winter. 



East. Moray — 



West. 



Forres. Rev. J. Keith. 



England. 



2176. Darluca typhoidearum B. & Br. C. Hbk. No. 1286. 



Var. caricis Fckl. 



On Carex arendria. Autumn. 



