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remarkable features. The ‘“eye-like’’ appearance of the spor- 
—” age — to Lippert the specific — oculatum, 
he 
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penetrated he faogus hyphe, Te the : “felted yellow mass”’ of 
the Bay, W. Cra = discovered last eptember about twenty 
of the minute verre) ia on moss and hepatics on dead wood, in 
two localities about Pou miles apart, near Skene, Aberdeenshire. 
e specimens, which he has kindly sent me for identification, 
throw fresh light on this interesting species. The i pag meets 
olive or purple-brown sporangia ie either solitary or group 
carps ; in one case two sporangia on s mtithtited together on a ort 
black stalk, otherwise they are all sessile. In a dry state the 
sporangium-wall is brittle, and dehisces irregularly, oh Ba the 
beg -brown mass of spores and ered tips of the capillitium. 
When a sporangium is placed in water the gelatinous outer layer 
pay’ swells to form a thick coat, odapletsly'# surrounding the 
membranous wall with its enclosed mass of spores. Glycerine 
preparations show that the sporangium-wall, the capillitium with 
the interrupted sheath of the threads, and the spores are similar 
in all respects to those of eyed s type; the superficial granular 
deposits sel however, free fro ~ aa os There is no trace 
porang! 
space free from both spores and capillitiam. This is not the 
rrangement in the Scotch specimens. In those sporangia in 
of the floor appears as a bare, glossy, ring- shaped area; the attach- 
ment of oe peiltittn: would seem, therefore, to vary in different 
‘pat 
Prone: the small amount of material we possess, we 
are hardly 
‘in a nents at present to judge of the true true affinities i this 
rem species. If es ace observations —— prove 
have been correct, and lime-granules jionally present in 
