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Hormiscium pithyophilum (Wallr.) Sacc. — On bark of Taxus 



baccata ; 16. 

 Fusicladium pirinum, Fckl. — On living leaves of Pyrus 



communis; 10. 

 Polythrincium trifolii, Kze. & Schm. — On Trifolinm repens ; 6. 

 Cercospora mercurial is, Fckl. — On Mercuricdis perennis ; 4. 

 Coniothecium amentacearum, Corda. — On dead bark of Salix; 15. 

 Fumago vagans, Pers. — On leaves of evergreens; 17. 

 Stilbum tomentosum, Schr. — On Trichia ; 4. 

 Tubercularia vulgaris, Tode. — On dead bark ; 5, 6, 9. 

 Cvlindrocolla urtica? (Pers.) Bon. — On dead stems of Urtica 



dioica ; 7, 11, 18. 



Proceeding's of the Society. 



SESSION 1906-190 



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25th September, 1906. 



Mr. J. Ballantyne, Vice-President, in the chair. 



The following were elected Ordinary Members, viz. : — Mr. T. 

 Thornton MacKeith, 19 Howard Street; Mr. Henry John 

 Rhodes, Ferguslea, Laird Street, Coatbridge ; Mr. J. R. 

 Robertson, Struan, Brownside Road, Cambuslang; and Mr. 

 W. H. M. Smith, 151 West Princes Street. 



A report on an excursion to Glen Douglas and Whistlefield 

 was read by Mr. John R. Lee (p. 100). 



Mr. Lee exhibited a specimen of Sphagnum imbricatum, 

 Hornsch., from Lewis, and made some remarks descriptive of the 

 morphological features of the group of Mosses to which it belongs. 



Mr. Alexander Ross showed several examples of Eristalis 

 ceneus, Scopoli, a dipteron apparently unrecorded for the West 

 of Scotland. These, he stated, had been taken on flowers of 

 Ragwort (Senecio Jacobcea) near the sea-shore on the Island of 

 Islay. 



Dr. Robert Brown exhibited a specimen of Fool's Parsley 

 (JEthusa Cynapium, L.), and drew attention to the poisonous 



