NOTES ON WINTER BOTANY. 17 
botanist and an excellent authority on fungi, has found the 
following in Dumfriesshire: 
Haplographium pinetum. On dead fir leaves. Remarkable for 
the dark brown and rather stout stem and a head like 
Penicillium. (New to Britain.) 
Periconia pycnospora 
Acremoniella pallida + All unusual forms on vegetable rubbish. 
Gorytrichum cesium ) 
Gibberella cyanogena. Cabbage stalks. 
Leptosphaeria acuta. Nettle stems. 
Ticothecium pygmaeum. On the apothacium of a Lecanora. 
Sporodina grandis, with zygospores on Agarics. 
Ascophanus equinus. On dung. 
Steganosporium pyriforme. On sycamore branches. 
Rhytisma acerinum. On sycamore leaves. 
Urocystis Anemones. On buttercup. 
Melampsoridium betulinum. On birch. 
Phragmidium violaceum. On Rubus. 
Phragmidium subcorticatum. On Roca canina. 
Puccinia graminis. 
Puccinia Poarum. 
Cystopus candidus. On Shepherd’s Purse. 
Erysiphe Martis. On dead flies. 
Leptospheria vagabunda and its attendant ; 
Coniothyrium vagabundus, a new disease of gooseberries, has: 
been observed at Annan and Worcester. It strips the 
bushes of leaves. 
15th November, 1907. 
Chairman—Dr Martin, Vice-President. 
THE UNDEVELOPED RESOURCES OF OUR MARINE FISHERIES. 
By Mr Witson H. ARMISTEAD. 
Although the salmon does not come entirely under the head- 
ing of Marine Fisheries, no study of its life and habits is complete 
without considering its existence in salt water, and before passing 
on to questions which are entirely marine, I should like to say a 
few words about this most important fish. The decrease of 
