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base, margins strongly serrate. Caps, ovate, pyriform, 

 inclined, striate when dry, on a seta 2 inches long, lid 

 rounded, mammillate. Perist. teeth inner smooth, 

 entire. 



Eocks. Very rare. Summer. 



Forfarshire. 



397. T. norvegica, Zett. St. radiculose. L. soft, 

 slightly sheathing, lower elongate-elliptical, acute, 

 acuminate, upper longer, narrowly linear, very concave, 

 more or less denticulate, particularly near apex, nerve 

 broad, upper cells papillose in front, lower behind. 



Eocks. 



Ben Lawers (McKinlay), &c. 



Tribe xxi. Buxbatjmiaces. 

 80. BUXBAUMIA, Ecdler. 



398. B. aphylla, Hall. "St. almost none, buried. 

 L. lower roundish, deeply toothed, upper fringed with 

 long, ciliary processes. Caps, plano-convex, roundish, 

 ovate, reddish. Outer perist. irregularly subdivided, 

 thick and cellular." [Wilson.J 



Eare. May. 



Scotland, Yorkshire, &c. 



899. B. indusiata, Brid. " Eesembling the last, but 

 caps, more erect, not flattened on the upper surface, 

 of uniform texture and yellowish-green colour, covered 

 with a soft membrane, which ruptures on the upper 

 surface, the margins rolling back, somewhat like the 

 indusium of a fern. Annulus narrow." [Dr. Braith- 

 waite, Journ. Bot., viii. 226.] June. 



On ground and rotten trunks. Chiefly in pine woods. 



Near Ballater, 1847 (Cruikshank) ; Craigendinnie 

 Hill, Aboyne, 1867 (Dickie and Eoy). 



