A GALLOWAY STONE-AGE VILLAGE. 95 
stones are scarce, and in the vicinity of the Wigtownshire sites 
building stones are so difficult to procure that the fields are not 
bounded by stone walls, but are either fenced, hedged, or en- 
closed by earthen dykes. 
As we have thus earth-hidden, stone-lined, sepulchral 
chambers constructed apparently in imitation of earth-hidden, 
stone-built dwellings, and also sepulchral constructions of timber 
within mounds, it is an easy deduction that wood-built chambers 
for the living once existed wholly or partly earth-hidden. 
_Perhaps the evidence for such wood-built, earth-hidden dwell- 
ings is not only presumptive, but has become direct testimony, 
through the discoveries in Stoneykirk. 
In the Scottish area many unique non-historic and proto- 
historic archeological phenomena have been observed, especially 
in the domains of art and architecture. May not the “piled 
pit ’’ of Stoneykirk be another example of the ingenuity and 
perseverance in overcoming difficulties which seem to have 
characterised the pre-historic craftsman of North Britain? 
THE Locat Funer. By Mr W. M‘Cutcueon, B.Sc. 
The following is a list of eighty fungi found in and around 
Dumfries in the months of September and October. A number 
of them have been verified by Mr R. B. Johnstone, honorary 
secretary to the Andersonian Naturalists’ Society, Glasgow. I 
hope to be able to add to the number on future occasions. 
HYMENOMYCETES. 
AGARICINEAE. 
Amanita mappa. Goldielea Tricholoma nudum. Dal- 
and Conhuith Woods. skairth. 
Amanita muscaria. Third Tricholoma cinerascens. Moss 
wood from town on Castle- Road, Dalskairth. 
Douglas Road. Marasmius urens. 
Amanita rubescens. Ter- Marasmius peronatus. 
raughtie Glen. Marasmius oreades. Goldielea. 
Amanita vaginata. Ter- Collybia maculata. Dal- 
raughtie Glen. skairth. 
Armillaria mellea. Collybia butyracea. 
Tricholoma murinaceum. Dal- Collybia radicata. Carruchan. 
skairth. Collybia velutipes. 
Tricholoma personatum.  Dal- Collybia dryophila. 
skairth. 
