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Lawers and-Glas Mheal, Perthshire; at Aucliinblae, Kin- 
cai’dineshire, first observed by Mr. John Sim ; and abund- 
antly in various places in Clova and Braemar, first observed 
by the Rev. J. Fergusson. From every form of Hypnum 
commutatum it is at once separated by its papillose leaves 
with much dilated auriculate bases ; by its larger alar cells ; 
by the ovoid ceils of the upper portion of the leaf, those of 
H. commutatum being linear; by its monoicous inflorescence, 
and by the time of the fruit, which is at maturity in 
autumn. Fruit has been found only in Italy and in South 
Prussia. 
Mr. Charles Bailey distributed specimens of MJcidium 
Stcttices, Desm., which Mr. John Barrow and he had found 
in some abundance on a species of Statice (probably 
S. Limonium ) on the 3rd of June last, on the eastern shore 
of Walney Island. The Statice occurs on ground covered 
each high tide, on Tummer Hill Marsh, near the Water 
Garth Nook. This leaf fungus had been announced in 
“ Science Gossip,” 1st July, 1871, as new to Britain, it 
having been found by Mr. R. S. Hill on the low muddy 
shores of Southampton Water. 
Mr. Bailey mentioned that the Urocystis pornpholygodes, 
Sch., also occurred on Walney Island in great plenty near 
Bent Haw Scar, on Thalictrum eu-minus, a. maritinumE. B. ; 
also that JEciclium crassuvi, Pers., was common on Comus 
Mas. L., at Silverdale, Warton Crag, and other places in North 
Lancashire. 
“Notes on Dorcatoma bovistse,” by Mr. Joseph 
SlDEBOTHAM, F.R.A.S. 
In August, 1857, my friend Mr. Kidson Taylor found 
some larvae in small fungi, on the coast at Barmouth, and 
from them bred a number of the rare Dorcatoma bovistee. 
Each year since he has had sent to him, by a friend at Bar- 
mouth, a box of fungi, gathered in the same place, but has 
not succeeded in obtaining from them a single specimen. Our 
associate Mr. Linton and I spent a few days at Barmouth 
last month, and having been informed by Mr. Taylor of the 
