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hairs ; internally whitish cinereous ; asci cylindrical ; 

 sporidia 8, filiform, multiseptate, 180 X 2/u ; paraphyses 

 filiform, branched near the apices, which are subclavate 

 and brown. 



Vibrissea Margarita — White, " Scott. Nat.," vol. ii 

 p. 218 ; B. and Br., " Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 1477; Steven., 

 "Myco. Scot.," p. 298 ; " Grevillea," vol. ii. p. 162 ; Phil., 

 "Trans. Linn. Soc," ser. 2, vol. ii. p. 6, t. i. f. 10-16. 



On dead sticks of heather in a pool of water, at an 

 altitude of 2200 feet. September and October. 



The stems are simple, varying from 2 lines to J an 

 inch in height, springing from complicated threads, and 

 covered with black-jointed hairs or fibres ; at the junction 

 with the head the stem is less hairy and paler in colour, 

 internally it is solid and greyish-white. The head is 

 flattened orbicular (sometimes concave in the middle), 

 and of a beautiful orange-vermilion in colour ; the 

 margin has a fringe of close appressed hairs of the same 

 character as those on the stem ; underneath the head is 

 paler in colour at the junction with the stem. The 

 species is readily distinguished from its ally, V. truyi- 

 corum, by the hairy stems and differently coloured 

 heads (Dr. Buchanan White, I. c). 



Name — After Mrs. Buchanan White. 



Mor Shrdn, Braemar ! (Dr. Buchanan White). 



3. Vibrissea Fergussoni. (B. and Br.) 



Stipes short, thickened upwards ; cups plane, ex- 

 ternally dark brown, granulose ; hymenium plane or 

 pulvinate, yellow ; asci elongated ; sporidia filiform, 220//; 

 summits of the paraphyses globose. 



Patellaria Fergussoni — B. and Br., " Ann. Nat. Hist.," 

 No. 1490, t. 11. fig. 6 ; "Grevillea," iii. p. 123. Vibrissea 

 Fergussoni — Phil., " Trans. Linn. Soc," ser. 2, vol. ii. 

 p. 7. 



On Prunus Padus. 



Name — After the Rev. J. Fergusson. 



New Pitsligo, N.B. (Rev. J. Fergusson). 



