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Lawers and Glas Mheal, Perthshire; at Auchinblae, Kin- 

 cardineshh^e, first observed by Mr. John Sim ; and abund- 

 antly in various places in Clova and Braemar, first observed 

 by the Rev. J. Fergusson. From every form of Hypnum 

 commutatum it is at once separated by its papillose leaves 

 with much dilated auriculate bases ; by its larger alar cells ; 

 by the ovoid cells of the upper portion of the leaf, those of 

 H. commutatum being linear; by its monoicous inflorescence, 

 and by the time of the fruit, which is at maturity in 

 autumn. Fruit has been found only in Italy and in South 

 Prussia. 



Mr. Chakles Bailey distributed specimens of JEcidium 

 BtaticeSy Desm., which Mr. John Barrow and he had found 

 in some abundance on a species of Statice (probably 

 S. Limonium) on the 3rd of June last, on the eastern shore 

 of Walney Island. The Statice occurs on ground covered 

 each high tide, on Tummer Hill Marsh, near the AVater 

 Garth Nook. This leaf fungus had been announced in 

 " Science Gossip," 1st July, 1871, as new to Britain, it 

 having been found by Mr. B. S. Hill on the low muddy 

 shores of Southampton Water. 



Mr. Bailey mentioned that the Urocystis ioompholygod.es, 

 Sch., also occurred on Walney Island in great plenty near 

 Bent Haw Scar, onThalictruni eu-minus, ^i.maritinum'E.B.; 

 also that jEcidAum crassum, Pers., was common on Cornus 

 Mas. L., at Silverdale, War ton Crag, and other places in North 

 Lancashire, 



"Notes on Dorcatoma bovistse," by Mr. Joseph 



SiDEBOTHAM, F.B.A.S. 



In August, 1857, my friend Mr. Kidson Taylor found 

 some larvae in small fungi, on the coast at Barmouth, and 

 from them bred a number of the rare Dorcatoma bovist^e. 

 Each year since he has had sent to him, by a friend at Bar- 

 mouth, a box of fungi, gathered in the same place, but has 

 not succeeded in obtaining from them a single specimen. Our 

 associate Mr. Linton and I spent a few days at Barmouth 

 last month, and having been informed by Mr. Taylor of the 



