200 THE DENS OF BONHARD AND MURRAYSHALL. [July, 



Onygena equina, Pers. Horse-hoof Onygena. Head lenticu- 

 lar, furfuraceous, dirty-white, at length splitting all round ; stem 

 abbreviated. Gi'ev. Sc. Crypt. Fl. t. 343. 



On the hoofs of horses, cows, sheep, etc., and also on horns. 

 E-are. 



A curious little fungus, from two lines to a quarter of an inch 

 high, having a short solid stem and a globose, often flattened, 

 head. The plant is of a whitish colour, and the sporidia when 

 ripe are pale reddish-brown. 



Since I commenced these chapters, an excellent work on 

 British Fungi, entitled 'Outlines of British Fungology,' has 

 been published by the Rev. ]\I. J. Berkeley (one of the greatest 

 living Mycologists), which brings down the science to the latest 

 period, and which should be in the hands of every one who 

 wishes to pursue the study of Mycology in this country. 



THE DENS OF BONHAED AND ]\njEEAYSHALL. 



A Few Hours' Botanizing in the Dens of Bonhard and 

 Murirayshall. By John Sim, A. B.S.Ed. 



The house and lands of Bonhard lie about two miles east of 

 Perth. The mansion and domains of Murrayshall a mile further 

 onward in the same direction. The situation of both estates is 

 beautiful and highly desirable. The lawns and pleasure-grounds 

 are laid out and decorated very tastefully, and nature herself has 

 contributed liberally to the adornment of these two localities. 

 But it was not their natural beauty, increased by art, that led the 

 writer of this paper to visit their woods and dens ; it was their 

 wild flowers that stimulated my desires to know personally some- 

 what of their botany. 



Some time ago I had sent from the Den of Murrayshall a plant 

 which the finder did not know and asked me to name. It was 

 the Claytonia alsinoides, and I was told it grew there in abun- 

 dance, il was determined as soon as I was able to verify this 

 new locality by a personal inspection. Accordingly, on the 28th 

 of May, 1862, the day being fine, I started for the Den of Mur- 

 rayshall, taking with me my young son (ten years) to bear me 

 company. I left Perth about nine a.m. and on my way passed 



