The Scottish Naturalist. 165 



* P. leptideum Fr. My col. Scot. p. 344. 



Rothiemurchus. Rev. J. Keith. 



2211. Hysterium (Lophodermium) eriophori Phill. in Litt. 



Superficial, scattered, roundish or elliptical, black, rugose, lips at 

 length elevated, serrated ; asci clavate, broad ; sporidia 8, filiform, 

 about I mm. long ; paraphyses numerous, slender. 



On dead stems of Eriophorum. Aug. — Sept. 



East. ■ Moray 



West. ■ — 



Grantown. Rev. J. Keith. 



2212. Lophium lseviusculum Karst. Myc. Fenn. ii. p. 246. 



Grevillea, viii. p. 103. 



Gregarious, erumpent- superficial, linear - elongated, hysteriform, 

 black, nearly smooth, '$-'7 mm. long ; asci fusiform-elongated, '054- 

 •060 mm. long, about '006 mm. broad ; sporidia 8, fusiform-elongated, 

 straight or nearly straight, usually faintly triseptate, yellowish, 'Oi6- 

 *022 x "0025- '003 mm.; paraphyses numerous, crowded, very slender. 



On damp decaying fir-leaves. Aug. 



East. ■ Moray 



West. 



Grantown. Rev. J. Keith. 



Europe. 



* Hypocrea citrina Fr. My col. Scot. p. 358. 



Forma fungicola. Darnaway. Dunphail. Rev. J. Keith. 



2213. Hypomyces violaceus Tul. Karst. Myc. Fenn. ii. p. 210. 



-Mycelium densely spread over the matrix, floccose, whitish, at length 

 violet, producing conidia of two sorts, some smaller, linear-oblong, 

 I 2 loculate, pallid, others larger, broadly ovate, smooth, brown ; 

 perithecia emergent, sphaeroid or sphaeroid - depressed, umbilicate, 

 opening by a scarcely perceptible ostiolum, crowded, purplish, very 

 small; asci cylindrical, "055- '06 x '004 mm. ; sporidia 8, uniseriate, 

 ellipsoid or oblong, straight or somewhat unequally sided, simple, 

 hyaline, '006- '007 x •002-"003 mm. ; paraphyses none. 



In old saw-pit. Sept. 



East. Moray 



West. ■ 



Cawdor, 1879. C. B. Plowright. 



Europe. 



2214. Microsphyxia Hedwigii Lev. C. Hbk. No. 191 8. 



On Viburnum opulus. Autumn. 



East. Dee 



West. - ■ 



