19 17- Noies. 55 



Aquatic Fungi. 



Fungi which hve in or under water are rare. In the outlet of a httle 

 lake on Brandon, in Kerry, at 2,000 feet elevation, in July, 1913, I found 

 a small orange fungus growing on dead heather stems in three feet ot 

 water, which was identified at Kew as Vihvissea truncoruni Fr. Next 

 year (October, 191 4) the same plant turned up on dead heather in a foot 

 of water in Lough Dan, Co. Wicklow ; and on the day following ]Miss 

 Jane Stephens obtained further specimens, also on dead heather, in a 

 foot of water in the outlet stream from Lough Tay. These specimens 

 were ^•erified by ^liss Knowles. The species is rare in the British Isles ; 

 and in Ireland, curiously enough, has been recorded previously only 

 from these same two regions : — Hungry Hill, Co. Cork, 1,000 feet, on 

 dead heather stems in boggy places (^Nl'Weeney in Irish Naturalist, ii. 

 227, 1S93), and " Powerscourt, recurring in the same place every spring 

 (Pim) ; Slade Brook (M'Weeney)" — (Pim and M'Weeney, Irish Naturalist, 

 ii., 259, 1893.) 



A commoner species of similar appearance and similar habitat is 

 Mitrula phalloides Chev. {=^M. palndosa Fr.). It is recorded from Cloyne 

 Valley, Co. Cork ; Powerscourt, Co. Wicklow ; Glencullen, Co. Dublin ; 

 Slieve Donard and Hilltown, Co. Down, and near Belfast, Co. Antrim. 

 I have a note of having obtained it over twenty years ago in Tollymore 

 Park, Co. Down (named by Canon Lett), and in June of last year got 

 good specimens on dead heather in several inches of water near the 

 Hare's Gap, Mourne ^fountains ; ]\liss Knowles kindly identified it. 



R. Lloyd Praeger. 



Dubhn. 



Some Leitrim Fungi. 



At Dromahaire, Co. Leitrim, last October, we found an unfamiliar 

 yellow spatula-shaped fungus on limestone pasture in some abundance ; 

 and later under trees near the mouth of the Bonet River, on a space of 

 a few square yards, we collected an unusual variety of interesting small 

 fungi of the Clavaria and Geoglossum tj'pes. They were sent to Mr. 

 A. D. Cotton of Kew, who kindl}' reported on them. The first-mentioned 

 proved to be Spathnlaria clavata Sacc, rare in the British Isles, and with 

 only one previous Irish station (Shankill, Co. Dublin : G. Pim). The 

 others were as follows : — Clavaria Jumosa Pers., C. muscoides L., C. rugosa 

 Bull., C. inaequalis Fl. Dan., C. unibrinella Sacc, Microglossuni viride 

 Gill (=Miirnla viridis Karst.), Otidea grandis ]\Iassee, Thelephora spiculosa 

 Fr. Of these, C. rugosa and C. inaequalis are on record from each of 

 the four provinces of Ireland ; the other three Clavarias were only recently 

 added to the Irish flora in the Clare Island Report ; C. umbrineUa is 

 very rare in the British Isles. Microglossuni viride has been recorded 

 from the Dublin district. For Otidea grandis (a rare species in our 

 islands) the present appears to be the first Irish record. Regarding 

 Thelephora spiculosa, the name is new to the British list, as is explained 



