NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. XXUI 



Ciilllthavinion viCDibranaceum, Mngnus, on the zoophyte 

 FitiHtrn foliacea. 



Mr. D. A. Boyd exhibited specimens of the following species 

 of Fiuigi ffoni the neighbourliood of West Kilbi-ide, Ayrshire, 

 viz.: 



Arjarir.us {Crep'ulohis) cnlitlcpis, Cortichom incarnatum, Fr. 



Fr. i C .sainbiici, Pers. 



Poli/purns hetiduiHs, Ball. | Cyphella niuscicola, Fr., var. B. 



Meniliits coriiiiii, Fr. (two i C. iupnln, Fr., var. cernua, 



foims). Schuni. 



Solenia anomala, Pers. Clathroptycliluin rugnlosum, 



Hydnuvi uchraceitin. Pors. Wall. 



Plilebiava(ja,¥v. Bnctrldiuinflavnin, Kze. 



Odontla finibi-'tata, Pers. Hypocrea rufa, Fr. 



Corticium cceritleuin, Fr. 



He also showed a mass of reddish fibres, found covering a 

 moist bank in Towergill Glen, Largs, and stated that this 

 gi'owth was formerly regarded by botanists as a true fungus, 

 and named Ozonlum auricomiim. Link. It was now, however, 

 considered merely a state of mycelium, probably of one of the 

 larger Hymenomycetes, and therefore possessing no claim to 

 specific recognition. 



\\\ evidence of the remarkable mildness of the season, Mr. 

 Boyd showed twigs of Hawthorn, Cratccgus oxyacantlia, L., 

 witli fully-developed foliage, gathered on 21st inst. in a wood 

 near West Kilbride ; and he stated that on the 19th inst. he 

 had observed Mercxirlalis perennis, L., in flower in the same 

 district. Sevei'al instances of early nesting were also reported. 



A round concretion was exhibited, about the size of a cricket- 

 ball, taken from the stomach of a cow -ih years old. It was 

 stated that such growths are caused by hairs and other in- 

 digestible particles which adhere to the tongue of the animal 

 wlien licking its body. They pass into the stomach, where 

 they become agglutinated into a hard and horny mass. 



Mr. Thomas King, Vice-President, showed a branch of the 

 Strawberry Tree (Arbutus Unedu), and remarked that the shrub 

 is found wild in Ireland and on the Mediterranean Coasts, but 

 in Britain only Avhere planted. He also showed branches of 

 Garvya cUlptlca, with catkin^, from the Queen's Park, Glasgow, 

 and stated that the tree, which is a native of the Western 

 States of America, grows well in this country, especially when 

 planted in the vicinity of the sea-coast. 



Mr. "W. Craibe Angus exhibited a Blackbird [Turdus Merula) 

 with white plumage on one of its wings ; a chaffinch [Frlngilla 

 C(vlebs) with abnormally pale ])lumage of a light chocolate hue ; 

 and several Scotch examples of Pallas' Sand-Grouse [Syrrhiiptes 

 paradoxus). He commiuiicated some interesting notes regard- 

 ing the morphology, habits, and disti'ibution of the last-men- 



