33 2 The Scottish Naturalist. 



Ben-muic-dhui (gathered by Mr. F. J. Hanbury), he remarks, " Is really like 

 my C. arcticum from Greenland and Iceland, but seeds are required to cer- 

 tainly determine it ; these are quite different from C. latifolium L. being C. 

 alpinwn, and C. arclicu?n, Lange." Mr. Hanbury kindly took his sheet of 

 specimens to Kew ; but there is no [specimen of arcticum there from Lange, 

 (probably it is there under some other name for the Arctic Expeditions); so we 

 had to content ourselves with comparing the specimens with the beautiful plate 

 of C. arcticum in "Flora Danica." So far as it was possible to come to a 

 conclusion, I quite think the plant is that of Lange. It now is necessary to 

 gather plants in good fruit to decide the question of what C. latifolium Auct 

 Angl. really includes. Arthur Bennett. 



A Neglected Scotch Fungus. 



In the "Scottish Cryptogamic Flora," vol. iv., t. 212, f. 1, published in 

 1826, Greville figures a fungus, which he names Stilbospora profusa. In the- 

 " Systema Mycologicum " of Fries, in 1832, this was re-named Didymosporium 

 profusum. But, for some reason unknown to me, it has not been mentioned 

 by any succeeding British author so far as I can ascertain. 



In December last I found what is evidently the same fungus on the inside of 

 bark of sycamore at Sutton Coldfield, near Birmingham. The description is 

 as follows : — Pustules gregarious, or collected in little groups, 400 to 700 

 diam., erumpent, conical, black, bursting in the centre ; conidia small, ovoid - 

 oblong, uniseptate, at first hyaline, then olivaceous, at length dark fuscous, 

 somewhat constricted, rounded at each end, or more tapering below ; 20-25 by 

 9-10. (The measurements are in thousandths of a millimetre). 



W. B. Grove, B.A. 



MEETINGS OP SCOTTISH SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



Aberdeen Natural History Society — Session 1885-86. 



17th Nov. 1885. — The President (Professor James W. H. Trail) spoke on 

 Natural History Museums, with special reference to Aberdeen, remarking that 

 though they had been long in moving in the matter, he thought it was possible 

 to have a good local museum, and that it would not be very difficult to form 

 one. He referred to the exhibition in Gray's School of Art, under the 

 auspices of the Society, during the visit of the British Association, and stated 



