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On the second day, Thursday the 19 th, only two of the 

 party remained to go out again with Mr, Grant, and they 

 were moderately successful in their search. On the knoll 

 already mentioned were found Sparassis crispa, Fr., and 

 Polyporiis Schvjeinizii, Fr., both rare Fungi. Laciarias 

 uvidiis, Fr., was also found. In a fir wood on another 

 part of the property Hydnum zonatum, Batsch, was seen in 

 considerable quantity, at one spot forming a nearly com- 

 plete circle of 9 yards in diameter. It was not observed 

 in any other place. Ag. porrigens, Pers., Ag. pyrotrichus, 

 Holmsk., Elapliomyces granulattis, Fr,, Boletus pachypits, Fr., 

 Canthcirellus infundihdiforiiiis, Fr., Craterellus cornu- 

 copioides, Pers., and Clavaria abietinus, Pers., were also 

 observed. As only a small part of the ground could be 

 carefully gone over in the limited time at the disposal of 

 the members, the results obtained seem to warrant the 

 conclusion that the district, where it is wooded, would 

 repay a more prolonged and minute search. A great deal 

 has still to be done before we can be said to have much 

 knowledge of the Hymenomycetes of Scotland, and the 

 number of observers in this department of botany is so 

 few that progress is but slow. The Society has mapped 

 out the whole of Scotland into carefully defined districts 

 with the view of gradually obtaining lists of the Fungi 

 found in each, and hopes soon to publish a full list of 

 Scotch Fungi as a guide for the tabulation of the different 

 species. When this is done it may be expected that the 

 finds of competent observers will so be chronicled as not to 

 be lost sight of through being either not noted at all except 

 on the margin of a private flora, or else recorded here and 

 there in different publications. Greater interest may thus 

 also be aroused in this sphere of Cryptogamic Botany, and 

 the number of workers being by degrees increased the 

 accuracy of their work will be increased also, and its 

 permanence secured. 



Fungi found in Glen Urquhart during the Annual 

 Conference of the Cryptogamic Society of Scotland, 17th 

 to 19th September 1895, inclusive: — 



Agaricus mappa, Fr. 



muscarius, L. 



rubpscens, Pers. 



spissus, Fr. 



Agaricus vaginatus. Bull; also var. 

 fulvus, 8cb»ff. 



granulosus, Batsch. 



melleus, Fl. Dan. 



