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MEETING OF SCOTTISH CRYPTOGAMIC SOCIETY. 319 
A Short Account of the Meeting of the Scottish 
Cryptogamic Society in Glen Urquhart, 1895. 
By Professor Toomas Krne. 
[Read 24th September, 1895. ] 
Tux Cryptogamic Society of Scotland, which was formed twenty 
years ago, meets annually in some part of Scotland. This year the 
meeting was in Glen Urquhart, which opens into Loch Ness about 
fifteen miles south of Inverness. Most of the active members of 
the Society are mycologists, hence more attention is given to fungi 
than to any other division of the Cryptogams. Professor J. W. 
H. Trail, Aberdeen, was the president at this meeting. 
Tuesday, 17th September, was to be a great day in the woods, 
but the unfavourable weather limited operations to short sallies 
with umbrellas. Dr. Stevenson of Glamis and I, seeing at one 
place good bare ground under some fir trees, we proceeded there, 
and found at once three interesting species—Clavaria abietina, 
Pers., a much-branched yellow species, which turns green when 
rubbed; Spathularia flavida, Pers. (one of the Discomycetes), a 
species which I have gathered only three or four times; and 
Agaricus hemorrhoidarius, Kalchbr., which becomes red when cut, 
as if blood were oozing out, whence the name. The last-named has 
close affinity with the Common Mushroom. 
Wednesday, 18th September.—The morning of this day was wet, 
like the previous one, but after noon we had a fine day, without a 
shower. “We went first to the Falls of Devach, about two miles 
off. Here we set to work, and before five in the afternoon had 
found a good number of fungi, including Hygrophorus cerasinus, 
Berk., which gets its specific name from its smell, which resembles 
that of the leaves of Prunus Lawrocerasus, the Common Laurel ; 
Craterellus cornucopioides, Pers.; Dedalea quercina, Pers., on 
dead oak, the last-named with its pores arranged like a labyrinth, 
recalling Dedalus, the ingenious Athenian, who made a famous 
“maze” for Minos, King of Crete; Agaricus sulphwreus, Bull., a 
