The Scottish Naturalist. 167 



BEPOKT FOR 1887 ON THE FUNai OF THE EAST OF SCOTLAND, 

 By Prof. JAMES W. H. TRAIL, A.M., M.D., F.L.S. 



IN the present Report are included all additions to the Fungi of 

 the district embraced in the Union made between 2nd Septem- 

 ber, 1886 and 15th August, 1887. Very little information has been 

 contributed by members of the Union ; and the localities that have 

 afforded material for it are almost exclusively those worked by myself. 



Yet despite the limited area, and the want of co-operation, the 

 number of additions is very considerable, especially from " Dee." 



The Scottish Cryptogamic Society held its meetings in Aberdeen 

 from 28th September to 1st October 1886. The dry autumn had 

 been so unfavourable to the larger Fungi that it was resolved not to 

 attempt a show ; but several of the larger species were forwarded from 

 Haughton, on Donside, by the kindness of Mr. and Mrs. Farquharson. 

 The excursions of the Society to Drum, Park, and Kingcausie, in the 

 valley of the Dee, also added considerably to the list ftaf Hymeno- 

 mycetes, a group still very insufficiently wrought up in " Dee ; " and Mr. 

 Phillips both added species to the lists by his own investigations, and 

 named for me various Discomycetes that I had laid aside unnamed. 



During the year I have revised the groups Pcronosfiorece, Sphaerop- 

 sidew, and Melanconiece, in our Scotch flora ; and the results have 

 been, or are being, published in the Scottish Naturalist. 



In the subjoined lists of additions the families are placed in the 

 same series as in former reports, to facilitate reference to the " My- 

 cologia Scotica." 



Additions to the Scotch lists are indicated in ionic letters. The 

 names of species already recorded for the districts, but now men- 

 tioned from new food plants, are in italics, t or X prefixed to a name 

 denotes that it has been described since September 1886 in the 

 Scottish Naturalist. 



PROVINCE OF TAY. 

 Sphaeropsideae. 



t Phyllosticta scrophularinea Sacc, on leaves of Scrophularia nodosa, St. 



Cyrus, in October. 

 tPhoma melaena (Fr.)M. andD., on dead stems of A stragalus glycyphyllus, 



St. Cyrus, in April ; causes black patches, 

 t Ascochy ta Lathyri Trail, on dead leaves of Lathyrus sylvestris, St Cyrus, 



in October, 

 t A. microspora Trail, in spots on living leaves of Arctium Lappa, St. Cyrus, 



in October. 



