LICHENOLOGICAL MEMORABILIA. 79 



liypotLallus, subinivate or innato-sessile, rouii'I or angnlari-dif- 

 Tormed, concave, the disk or epithecium of a pale grey livid ap- 

 pearance, surrounded with a thick, prominent, bhick, entire or 

 llexuose margin ; hypothecium nigro-fuscous; paraphyses thick, 

 apices brown ; spores 8, colourless, linear-oblong, simple, very 

 minute. 



On the Doughruagh, Kylemore, county Galway. Rare. Mr. 

 Larbalestier (1875). 



4. Iiecidea nitescens, Leight. 



Thallus white, thin, continuous, minutely and irregulaidy rimu- 

 lose, efFnse, indeterminate (K yellow, C yellow), often overspread, 

 more or less, with a dark-brown alga ; apothecia numerous, small, 

 planoconvex, polished and shining, immarginate ; hypothecium very 

 thick, black ; paraphyses distinct, but conglutinate, apices pale ; 

 spores 8, colourless, oblong or linear-oblong, simple, moderate iu 

 size ; gelatina hymenea I. fulvescent. 



On rocks, Salrock Road, Connemara. Mr. Larbalestier 

 (1875). 



CRYPTOGAMIC SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND. 



The annual meeting of this Society has been held this year at 

 Perth, and a detailed account of it having appeared in the '" Gar- 

 dener's Chronicle" (October 9tb), it is unnecessary to repeat it 

 here. A few remarks confined to the scientific aspects of the ex- 

 cursions and show may, however, not be wholly out of place. The 

 Fungus i^^xhibition in the City Hall, on the 30th and the 1st Nov., 

 was, perhaps, the largest ever seen, as far as the number of 

 specimens is concerned, since the Society seemed fully resolved 

 upon a " big thing " in the way of a show. Of fresh and dried 

 specimens we are informed that there were more than 150,000. 

 These covered a space of some 3000 square feet. When, how- 

 ever, it is remembered that, except the dried specimens arranged 

 against the wall, very little attempt was made at naming the 

 specimens, it can well be understood that numbers could be accu- 

 mulated with less difficulty, and that though a*' big show," it Avas 

 not necessarily so perfect as it might have been. As a means of 

 restriction, it may be objected, that a much smaller number of 

 specimens, accurately named and somewhat systematically arranged, 

 would have been far preferable. Nevertheless, it was meant to be 

 a " big show," and it fully carried out the intention. 



By dint of considei'able perseverance the new and rare species 

 were found here and there amongst the different collections over 

 the room. It would occupy considerable space to enumerate all 

 the interesting specimens to be seen amongst so many thousands. 



