176 CRYPTOGAMIC PARASITES OF LIVING INSECTS. 



At a subsequent seance M. Girard called attention to tlie fact 

 that Audouin had observed similar parasites in the larva3 of two 

 species of beetles, and remarked that a perspicuous classification of 

 the cryptogamic parasites of living insects was to be desired. 



I commend this subject to the attention of some of our young 

 mycologists. 



F. Buchanan White. 



THE CRYPTOGAMIC SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND. 



On April 16th a meeting of botanists from various parts of 

 Scotland was held at Perth, to hear the report of the committee, 

 appointed at the Aberdeen Fungus Show, to organise a Scottish 

 Cryptogamic Society. A constitution having been adopted, the 

 following office-bearers were elected for the present year : — Presi- 

 dent, Sir T. Moncreifife, of Moncreiff"e, Bart. ; Vice-President, 

 Professor Dickie, Aberdeen ; Secretary, Dr, Buchanan White, 

 F.L.S. ; Treasurer, Rev. J. Stevenson, Glamis ; Members of 

 Council, Rev. J. Fergusson, Fern, near Brechin ; Rev. M. Ander- 

 son, Menmuir ; Rev. J.Keith, Forres; Mr. J. Roy, Aberdeen; 

 Colonel Drummond Hay, C.M.Z.S., of Seggieden, Perth ; Professor 

 Ogilvie, Aberdeen ; and Mr. C. Howie, Largo. It is intended to 

 have a show of Cryptogamic Plants, especially of Fungi, every 

 year in various districts of Scotland in rotation, and the show for 

 this year is to be in Perth in the last week of September, when it 

 is expected that a very large number of speciuTens will be exhibited. 

 It is possible also that the Society will issue from time to time a 

 few fasciculi of " New or Rare Scottish Cryptogamic Plants." 

 English cryptogamists desirous of becoming corresponding mem- 

 bers of the Society, should communicate with the Secretary 

 (Dr. Buchanan White, Perth — from whom information regarding 

 the Show may be obtained), or with any member of council. 



The f Hollyhock Fungus. — Puccinia Ulalvaceamm, Corda, 

 Y^our mycological readers will propably be interrsted in learning that 

 this plant has made its appeaiance in Ireland. I observed it about 

 a week since (April 18) in great abundance on some Hollyhocks 

 raised last season from seed obtained from an English house. Can 

 the germs have been in the seed, as the Ci/siopus of Crucifera; is 

 said by Dr. Bury to maJce its way into the plants through seeds ? 

 As far as I can learn this is the first appearance of this Puccinia 

 in Ireland ; no doubt Hollyhock growers would devoutly wish it 

 might be the hist. It is evidently a terrible pest, withering up the 

 leaves attacked, like a hot blast. My plant agrees in every respect 

 with that figured in " Grevillea" for December, 1874.— Greenwood 

 PiM, Easton Lodge, Monkstown, Co. Dublin. 



