G4 MISCELLANEA. 



unique. Figs. 5 and 6 represent portions of tliis filament, at a 

 may be seen the curiously thickened termination of the inner 

 filament.— /i/^., Oct. 9, 1858. 



Botanical Notes. In the beginning of January of this year 1 



found growing on a decomposing ram's horn, specimens of a fun- 

 gus, which at first appeared to me to be a small brownish-white 

 globular Lycoperdon, but which on examination I ascertained to 

 be the Oaygena Equina — a species of fungus which is occasion- 

 ally seen on decaying horses' hoofs and rams' horns. I am not 

 aware that this fungus has ever been recorded as indigenous in 

 the county of Durham, and Mr. Winch has erroneously inserted 

 it in his "Flora of Northumberland and Durham," 1813, p. 115, 

 as occurring " near Yetholm" — this place being in Roxburghshire. 

 Mr. Johnston, in his " Flora of Eerwick-on-Tweed," vol. ii., p. 

 189, gives the same habitat. The former botanist, in his " Ad- 

 denda to the Flora," p. 183, has added a Northumbrian locality, 

 " near Wallington," on the authority of Sir W. 0. Trevelyan. 

 A good figure of this cryptogamous plant will be found in Sow- 

 erby's "Coloured Figures of English Fungi," vol. iii., tab. 292. 

 In October last year I found the Cuscuta Epithymum grow- 

 ing in a clover-field near Norton, and which I had only observed 

 in this district once before, in September 1822; and as Smith in 

 his " English Flora," vol. ii., p. 25, is doubtful whether it be a 

 perennial, I marked the spot last autumn, and having carefully 

 searched for it this summer and finding no trace of it, I must 

 conclude that it is only an annual. I have since found this 

 species growing in another clover-field near Norton. Another 

 rare plant. Campanula hyhiHda, is also growing abundantly in a 

 barley stubble near Norton. This plant does not occur in John- 

 ston's " Flora of Berwick." On the 13th August last, I found 

 a few plants of Plialaris canariensis in Portrack Lane, about half 

 a mile from the village of Norton. TrlfoUum arvense is found 

 here in warm summers not very unfrequently, in sandy corn-fields. 

 A curious variety of Knautia arvensis, destitute of the larger 

 flowers in the circumference, has also occurred to me. — JoJui 

 Hogg, M.A., F.R.S., ^c, Norton, Sept. 30, 1858. 



