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from which we infer that this is the gathering made by his son 

 near their farm at Saefja, described in Spec. Plant, ed. 2, p. 1654 

 (see description of L. radiatum quoted above). 



The specimen of Lycogala epidendrum consists of a cluster 

 of three aethalia on a slip of wood. They measure from 6 to 

 8 mm. diarn., and are brownish-purple in colour. The sheet 

 is marked " Lycoperdon epidendrum" in the handwriting of 

 Rostafinski, who signed his name below. It is very possible that 

 this may be Linne's type, but we have no proof that it is so. 



The specimen of Trichia Botrytis is probably the variety 

 latcritia. On a piece of wood are several small clusters of nearly 

 black sporangia, with long, closely adhering, dark stalks ; the 

 spores are warm buff in colour. The sheet on which the specimen 

 is mounted is marked " Lycoperdon English nigrum Lightfoot," 

 in a handwriting as yet unrecognized. The Rev. John Lightfoot 

 (1735-1788) made a journey to Scotland in 1772 with Thomas 

 Pennant, the antiquary and naturalist, and afterwards published a 

 Flora Scotica. Lycoperdon nigrum Lightfoot (El. Scotica, 1069) 

 is referred by Eries to the fungus Sphceria spermoides G. F. Hoffm. 

 (Syst. Myc. ii. p. 460, and iii. Index p. 112). 



PLANTS OF THE DALWHINNIE DISTRICT, JULY, 1911. 

 By Rev. E. S. Marshall, M.A., F.L.S., & W. A. Shoolbred, F.L.S. 



To a traveller on the Highland Railway this neighbourhood 

 appears very bleak and barren ; we found it so, upon the whole, 

 as the rocks are mostly archsean gneiss, hard, intractable, and not 

 affording much foothold for alpine species, though one or two of 

 the combes are fairly productive. The exceptionally dry, hot 

 season was also unfavourable to collecting. On our only ascent 

 of Ben Alder time did not allow us to work the magnificent eastern 

 corrie, one of the chief haunts of the golden eagle. Hieracia are 

 numerous and interesting ; unfortunately a selection was sent to 

 our friend Rev. E. F. Linton just too late for him to examine 

 them, as he was fully occupied with a revision of the British 

 Salices, and he has not yet been able to send us a report. It 

 seems best to give an account of those which we could determine 

 with some confidence, leaving a few over. Two of the more 

 prevalent and characteristic have been recently described (pp. 119, 

 121) as new species (H. Isabellce and H. Shoolbredii). 



A few gatherings were made in 88 and 89, v.-c. Mid and East 

 Perth (Bryanthus coeruleus Dippel has not decreased since 1888 

 on the Sow of Atholl, and should occur on some of the Badenoch 

 hills ; but its early flowering season, and the superficial resem- 

 blance of its foliage to Empetrum, make detection difficult). The 

 rest came from v.-c. 96, East Inverness. Supposed new records 

 are starred. 



Ranunculus rcpens L. vai\ ■■'pirostratus Gaud. 96. Wet, gravelly 

 margin of the Allt Cuaich, at 1200 ft.; a small, neat plant, with 



