152 BOTANICAL EXCURSIONS IN DONEGAL. 
spores correspond res with those of the type. The capillitium 
consists of long branching elaters, more or less combined into a 
network: it has not therefore the complete Hemitrichia character 
of the original gathering in November, 1886 
H. wrorta List. var. rerorricaa was gathered at Witley, by 
Miss an Phear, on Dee. 11th, 1898. 
ykta Oersteptm Rost. Miss Agnes Fry obtained this 
Siectie at Failand, near Bristol, in December, 1898. a was first 
observed in white pla smodium, and in maturity it assumed an 
unusually “brilliant red colour; the papillose plates or " peralatelit 
portions of the sporangium- -wall adhering to the long columns of 
js pen capillitium are present, as is nearly always the case in 
spec 
Dranema corticatum List. Mr. Cran gathered this species more 
than once, near Rhynie in December, 1898, on dead wood 
r 
rway. It was also obtained by Mr. R. E. Fries, at Angermanland, 
Scion on July 25th, 1898. Beyond these i: pathos there 
appears to be no record of the species having been found. 
ESCRIPTION OF PLATE 398.—1. Physarum echinosporum : a, sporangia x 20; 
b, capillitium and spores x 280; c, spores x 600. 2. Fuligo ellipsospora, col- 
lected at Vattondon, Berks: a, part of a large ethalium wpb oe capillitium 
spores » Spore x 600; d, sthalium, cathinl oa 3. Fuligo 
pot i are ealleoted : at Manhattan, Kansas : a, small sthali reese 
BOTANICAL EXCURSIONS IN DONEGAL, 1898. 
By H. C. Harz, F.L.S., &e. 
(Concluded from p. 130.) 
The river flows in a zigzag cour rough peat-beds lying on an 
old raised beach—the 20-foot he the last few miles of its 
course, and at the period —_ this was sea- aleres probably no 
Uu 
swollen by the still continuing heavy rain. oarse common 
nks, such as Aira ca@spitosa, Petasites vulgaris, 
m, Avena elatior, Equisetum maxim um, Lythrum, pet nothing of 
intaiedt occurred. Near Gleneely there is a very perfect ‘‘ Danish ’”’ 
earthen fort. At Kile mg sees, in Gleneely, I etal a good 
settlement of Sambucus E 
In my “ Flora of fhictictics ” (Journ. Bot. 1883) I made an 
os of the pegs wen plants according to Watson’s types, and 
also a comparison with the Flora of aunt west of Lough Swilly. 
Later research, wank i embodied in the present paper, and in 
