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Descliampsia ^flexnosa Trin., var. wontana Hook, fil, (Aira 

 montana Huds.). Common on the range N. of Loch Laggan. 



31eUca nutans L. 97. Apparently rare ; we only noticed it on a 

 rock above the road, 2k miles E. of Loch Laggan. 



Athyrium alpestre Milde. 97. Corries north of Loch Laggan, in 

 profusion and very variable ; much of it agi'ced rather well with Syme's 

 description of his var. ohtusatimi. Stipes often extremely shoii;, 

 suggesting A. flexile Syme ; but I saw nothing which matches 

 authentic material. 



Equisetum sylvaticum L., var. *capiUare (Hoffni;). 97. Damp 

 wooded rocks above the River Pattack. 



jBJ. palustre L., var. *teiiue Doll. 97. Wet bogs, Sti-sith Mashie. 



MYCOLOGICAL NOTES.— III. 

 By W. B. Geoye, M.A.* 



Amphichgeta eiiropaea G-rove, sp. nov. Acervulis gregariis, cauli- 

 colis, pra^cipue prope nodos dispositis, ovalibus v. oblongis, subatratis, 

 primo tectis, deinde erumpentibus nudatisque, usque ^ mm, longis, 

 prominulis, denique elabentibus foveolasque minutas relinquentibus. 

 Sporis eliipsoideis, pedieellatis, 3-septatis, non constrictis, 12-15 x 

 4|-5 /u, loculis interioribus olivaceis, pedicello deciduo, recto, 10 x 

 1^-2 }ji, caetera trimorphis — (1) loculis extimis subconicis, hyalinis, 

 inferiore tantum seta oblique inserta, 8-14x1 fji, pedicellum sub- 

 tequante v. breviore, instructo.; (2) loculo superiore seque seta 

 flexuosa v. incurva sporam subsequante instructo ; (3) loculo superiore 

 dilute f uscidulo v. olivaceo, superne obtuse rotundato, non aristato. 



Hab. in sarmentis crassis emortuis Vitis vinifercd, King's Cliffe 

 {Berkeley, Martio, 1851). 



Berkeley's specimen has remained for over 65 years unnoticed 

 in the Kew Herbarium and undescribed. It is localised in his 

 own handwriting and accompanied b}^ one of his well-known little 

 sketches, in which, however, the setae are not shown. Ampliiclicdfa 

 has been known hitherto only from California (for Pestalozzia ? 

 anouHila Harkn. is an Amphich(jeta) and from Australia, where 

 several species occur on leaves and stems, and of these A. Hakece 

 Grove shows exactly the same trimorphism as A. europcea. 



Nevertheless, the ])resent species has been met with on another 

 occasion in Europe, viz. in France, but was ill-observed and therefore 

 misdescribed by Briard (in liev. Mycol. 1S8G, p. 25) under the 

 name Pestalozzia monochcBtoidea var. affinis Sacc. & Br., " sur 

 les sarments moi"ts et coupes du Vitis vinifera^ It happens that 

 the spores which have only the basal seta are most common, and 

 the pedicel is very deciduous. In order, therefore, to get the seta 

 apical (as it should be in P. monochcBtoidea) Briard turns the spores 

 upside down and says that they are "arrondies generalement ou 

 uttenuees (pielquefois a la base, a loge superieure conique et hyaline, 

 celle de la base plus obtuse et de couleur plus foncee." 



PucciNiA LONUissiMA Schrot. Ureclo-sori epipliyllous, arranged 

 in rows or little groups between the nerves, marked on the lower 

 * Continued from Journ. Bot. 1913, p. 4G. 



