THE 
OCTOBER 9, 1875.] 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
465 
us hzematopus : the latter Lap rode is full of a deep 
cla pre un 
Th pate 
in the room, us specim hun Ut й. 
lescens. The peel Кар ра glyciosmus and 
oth common Moncreiffe. 
ificent plants o mbricatum and Agaricus 
porrigens, bro ght b . Buchanan-White fro 
Rannoch; this gen also exhibited Agaricus 
Bloxami and Lactarius fulginosus. Cortinarius armil- 
tus and C. torvus wer the room, from Kinnoull ; 
Lactarius volemum many specimens of the rare 
and handsome Peziza Onotica (fig. 100), from Mon- 
n 
FIG, 99,—HELVELLA CRISPA, 
_ Woods, where A. carcharius is one of the prevailing 
plants, 
Pytchogaster med "in found in several places 
Moncreife, m pn so exhibited in me condition 
by Dr, Bach (nite . Fries co is p 
Беа degeneration of Poly force ee and i in 
Confirmatio is view Mr. Stephenson informed 
: members that he had really seen the plant with 
Will be manifest to all readers of the Gardener? 
Chron that it is 
al the и еен and зе W ya a 
t good 1 parts in the Con- 
ference. No less than fourteen Perthshire me 
ungi. Ен 
. and margarita were present ina dried sate 5 
опе of the origin cimens of Battar 
unds of the Earl of Башоп, 
| AE ‘Berkeley allowed his original spec 
3 via: of Montagae's Artotrogus tobe ын» € 
| Stephens' drawings of the resting-spores 
of Peronospora infestans, one of which was illustrated 
in prt last number of the Gardeners’ Chronicle. The 
bud Jade : 
of the same fungus (which is 
ase), as as the аа m from Chiswic 
> hich ‘niche "the originals for the drawings and 
Moncrieffe had his micro- 
—— vd Professor D 
fungi, prin 
gives Мө я the Red Sea 
Oc 
ng the more gie 4 objects was a soft 
hat made from Polyporus fomentarius, from n- 
sylvania, Eastern H вагу The hat was beaten 
d i 
mbled chamois leat - A hat of a 
difterent nature w: тп by one of the M 
xcursionists durin dnesday, the pea in 
сат being no other than а gigantic inverted чем 
of Lactarius vellereus. ere was one part 
larly fine collection on one of the tables, which а 
regarded by scientific men with great interest, and to 
which they attached great importance, and which w 
f attention of agriculturis 
ig 3 
E 
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genera and twenty-one арсен exhibit ‚ 
Stephen Wilson, North Kinmunday, Aberdeen. Th 
ergot is the first stage of the fungus called Claviceps 
a, and it is supposed to have the baneful effect 
ws and mares which Locas of it to cast 
Wil has been 
the spring g prematurely. son 
ble to grow the pon the ergots of eleven 
s of and vA i upon the different 
were exhibited i 
ere was a rhagnificent collection of fungi of all 
sorts from Sir William Stirling- irt., М.Р, ; 
Kinnaird sent a general irae which 
collect nbyt 
greatly ired. i 
Countess of arc was rerum "e p~ auem 
variety of co ; and a number of large 
ful ai ein were sent by the Earl of Mansfield, Kon 
Scone Palace grounds. A good collection was also 
sent by Mr. J rummond, fro egginch 
Castle; and close them was a tastefully- 
arranged table of specimens from Se 
èt was entirely devoted rom 
nnoch, collected in the neighbourhood of Kinloch- 
ep y Mrs. Buch hite ; and : digi Black 
Rannoch by Dr, Buchanan- White and Mr, 
J. T. Carrington, and very tastefully arranged by the 
latter gentleman. This collection was considered by 
| the savants to be the richest т in rare an ecies 
| 
| 
| 
| Sir Je 
| district; and Miss C. M. Boyle had а neat collection 
gathered in the — n Castle. 
essrs. Dickson & Turnbull, em red sent a 
| ine collection. 
Mr. Howie, enm exhibited upwards of 1000 
sheets of dried specimens of mosses, and 300 different 
sorts of RAN ungi This collection included 
forty-eight sheets obtained from Mr. Thomson, 
Professéé rre Strasburg. 
r, Hen j mens Bridgend House, exhibited a 
| Hec of lich "em fungi, and — eeds 
| (alge). Laird & Sinclai urserymen, 
| Dundee, exhibited a large уйлен ана ог 
| Giant Pufiba 
| The whole Conference passed off with the greatest 
. 100,—PEZIZA ONOTICA, i 
ote pias Й че” without the с» cw hitch of any 
and it unanimously agreed to hold the next 
к= Ет аде at Kelso, the Duke of Mese ee 
being elected President for the ensuing year. 
cannot do "ni i E nd scr уза a zd Aaien with 
a transcript o 
sung, to the great t delight of of the ee meeting, by the | does 
secretary, nd at the same 
time to heartily ‘wish " каен to ‘the Ctyjtoquidé 
Society of Scotland : "— 
THE FUNGUS SHOW. 
Atr—“ The Yi May Moon." 
Oh hurrah! hurrah ! I have been to see 
im m" me you’ 
o live without beefsteak ай аси 
| "adieu 
| Ye butchers look out ! for pe trade is gone, 
| Ye dairyman have not a got own, 
| Henceforth, for a fungus 
And hn tnd pu 
—Then 
Distiller desist, p ee certain I am, 
Without distillation we can have a dram ; 
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