170 CONTRIBUTION TO STUDY OF DUMFRIESSHIRE FUNGI. 
THE O_p BurcEss ROLL oF ANNAN. By Mr JAMEs BARBOUR, 
F.S.A.Scot. 
Mr Barbour made a number of interesting remarks based on 
the Old Burgess Roll of Annan from 1682 to 1705, in which mnay 
details regarding the burgesses admitted were given. 
CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF DUMFRIESSHIRE FuNGI. By 
Miss A. Lorrain Situ, F.L.S. 
Dumfriesshire has been well provided with a flora of seed- 
plants, owing to the ungrudging labours of our President and of 
those associated with him, but the spore-plants, and more especi- 
ally the fungi, have been somewhat neglected. I therefore 
venture to send this small contribution to mycology, hoping to 
supply some blanks in our knowledge of the county flora. Fora 
number of years I have been making observations, but as my 
stay in the county has been limited and often too early for the 
autumn growths, my list has grown very slowly, and there are 
great gaps that might easily be filled by anyone on the spot. 
There should be a rich fungus-flora in a county of such varied 
conditions of lowland and moorland as we find in Dumfriesshire. 
The rather abundant rainfall that it shares with other western 
districts accounts for the rivers that have formed the great dales, 
and these are supplemented by the many waters and burns that 
have cut into the land and formed miniature dales and glens 
often beautifully wooded. It is in such places that we find the 
broken branches, the stumps, and the humus, with the moist 
atmosphere, that are so peculiarly advantageous to fungoid 
growths. There are no forests of large extent or of great 
antiquity, but there are many bits of old woodland, and they 
provide happy hunting ground for the mycologist. 
Fungi are somewhat fickle in their occurrence ; and much de- 
pends on the season. A warm summer followed by heavy rains 
seems to be the most favourable weather for this crop; but even 
with good seasons the species do not recur as one would expect 
them to do. I found one autumn a beautiful growth of Psathyrella 
disseminata covering a large stump, but though I looked again 
year after year I did not see a single specimen. Tricholoma 
terreum grew abundantly in a field near a wood, one season 
only. As far as I could judge it seemed to have died out; and 
