220 The Scottish Naturalist. 



c. On Cryptogams. 



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*88. H. Equiseti Trail (D. & R. Trail, Sc. Nat., 1885, p. 76), 

 S.M. 3039, C. 279. 

 On dead stems of Equisetum {? limosurri), near Aberdeen, in 

 February. 

 Dee. 



XVIII. Prosthemium Kunze. 



Pycnidia subcutaneous, carbonaceous, depresso-globose, black; 

 sporidia cylindrical, pleuro-septate, united into stellate groups, 

 coloured ; basidia obsolete or filiform. 

 89. P. stellare Riess, 2431, C. 284, M. 1163 (D. & R. Keith). 

 On Alder branches at Greeshop, near Forres. 

 Moray. 



6. Hyalophragmije. 



Like Phaeophragmiae, but spores hyaline, or only yellowish. 



XIX. Stagonospora Sacc. 



Differs from Henderscmia only in colour of sporidia, which how- 

 ever, grade almost into pale brown tints. Though the 

 sporidia are typically 2-pluri-septate and guttulate, in some 

 the septa are indistinct or absent. Stagonospora tends, in form 

 of sporidia, to pass into section Scolecosportz. 



... 



a. On Dicotyledons. 

 None recorded from Scotland. 



b. On Monocotyledons. 



*9. S. typhoidearum(Desm.) Sacc. var. Caricis Fuckel. 2465, 

 C. 291, S.M. 2176 (sub Darluca typhoidearum var. Caricis) t 

 (D. Trail R. Keith, Sc. Nat., 1881, p. 17). 

 On dead Carex arenaria, near Aberdeen, in autumn. 

 Dee. 

 *9i. S. aquatica Sacc. 2470, var. sexseptata Trail (D.& R. Trail, 

 Sc. Nat., 1887, p. 88). 

 On dead stems of Scirpus lacustris at Gorbie Loch, a few miles 

 from Aberdeen, in September. 

 Dee. 



