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Asci cylindric-clavate, curved, 140-1605 X 16-20p (widest 
part) walls thick, apex subtruncate with slightly depressed centre. 
Spores 8, subuniseriate, filling the ascus, 17-20. X 9-12 p, 
smooth, elliptic, ends obtuse, hyaline when young and filled with 
irregularly sized globules, later the contents become homogeneous 
and gradually change in colour through pale yellow green to dark 
olive brown, continuous until deeply coloured, finally 1 septate, 
cells equal. Paraphyses profuse, hyaline, branched, linear through- 
out, 2-2°5 p thick. 
Hab.—On browned dead leaves of Empetrum mgrum still 
on the plant. ’ 
The ascophores vary from one to four or five on a leaf, 
mostly two to three, when dry they are stoutly pyriform ; 
the asci vary in length and thickness, the ascus wall begins to 
disappear when the spores become coloured, the spore septum 
rarely makes its appearance while the spores are enclosed in 
the ascus. 
It is certain to be found in other localitdes, if carefully looked 
for, on the underside of the host-plant. 
Since the above was written, Mr. H. Waterworth, Halifax, 
has succeeded in finding the same fungus on Empetrum, on 
Sowerby Crow Hill, near Halifax. 
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The Proceedings of the Liverpool Naturalists’ Field Club for 1912 
contain a detailed report of the Club’s field meetings, together with ‘A 
contribution towards a fungus flora of the hundred of Wirral,’ both of 
which are from the pen of Mr. J. W. Ellis. The financial statement shows 
that the Club has a small balance in hand. 
Volume XXXV. of the Journal of the Derbyshire Archeological and 
Natural History Society is a substantial publication, and well illustrated, 
as usual. It contains papers on archaeological subjects by H. Kirke, 
Rev. R. J. Burton, P. L. Gell, W. Smithard, Rev. J. M. J. Fletcher, Rev. 
J. C. Cox, Major Poynton and A. Carrington, and H. Vassall. The 
Rey. E. H. Mullins contributes a valuable report on the Ossiferous Cave 
at Langwith, with a list of the Vertebrate, etc., remains, and with ap- 
pendices by Messrs. A. S. Kennard, B. B. Woodward, M. C. A. Hinton, 
and Professor A. Keith; there are the usual full and valuable zoological 
notes by Rev. F. C. R, Jourdain and H. C. Hayward, and W. S. Fox 
describes the remains ot a human skeleton in Monsal Dale. The bones 
were those of a youth, and were found in a fissure, together with the 
remains of a sheep and goat. We rather fancy however, that Mr. Fox 
goes just a little bit further than the evidence allows, when he writes ‘ To 
my mind the facts suggest murder. It is fruitless to make wild guesses at 
the motive for sucha deed. But if the poor boy was murdered by a fellow- 
Briton, his assailant would have every reason to wish to conceal his 
crime. He would be well aware that the boy’s relatives would make a 
search. If he were merely dragged to the end of the fissure his whereabouts 
would soon be discovered. But if a dead sheep and goat were roughly 
thrown down close to him in that dark recess, it would be most improbable 
that any search would be carried further.’ We still think that Mr. Fox 
might have given some suggestion for the motive for the deed! 
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