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tion has not been seen with other fruit of a more appropriate 

 character more appropriate, I mean, so far as our present know- 

 ledge of lichens would warrant us in anticipating. Besides, the 

 genus Trypethelium has no representative in this country, nor, in- 

 deed, in Europe ; and is essentially a tropical lichen. 



Until I have further evidence I shall name this lichen Lophotke- 

 ./iu/ii acervatum. 



EEPOKT FOR 1886 ON THE FUNGI OF THE EAST 



OF SCOTLAND. 



By Prof. JAMES W. H. TRAIL, AM., M.D., F.LS. 



(Prepared for the E. S. U. N. S., 18S6.) 



IN the Report on Fungi submitted in 1885 {Scot. Nat, 1886, 

 pp. 224-231), were included'many species added during the 

 six years that had intervened since the publication of Mycologia 

 Scotica in 1879. 



The Report this year deals naturally with a much smaller num- 

 ber of additions to the lists, being restricted to those added 

 between December, 1885, and September 1st, 1886, to which date 

 this Report is made up. By far the larger number are the result 

 of personal investigations in the neighbourhood of Aberdeen, and, 

 to a less extent, in the north of Forfarshire. There are also a few 

 additions reported from Grevillea, on the authority of Dr. M. C- 

 Cooke. These are marked below with the letter (G). But before 

 proceeding to the list, it is desirable to call the attention of the 

 members of the Union to the appearance of the two volumes 

 of Mr. J. Stevenson's long-promised work, British Fungi, Hy7iie?w- 

 mycetes. The need of such a work was patent to all mycologists ; 

 and British mycologists are to be congratulated on the possession 

 of a reliable manual, of recent date, upon this large and important 

 family of Fungi, while Scotch botanists may fairly pride them- 

 selves on its being the work of one of their own number. 



Specific names printed in Ionic letters in the subjoined list 

 denote that the fungi have been determined as Scotch since 

 December, 1885. f Denotes that they have, since December, 

 been described in the Scottish Naturalist. 



Province of Forth. 

 Leptostroma herbarum (Fr. ) Link. On stems of herbs, Kinross (G). 



