Tinarella mententera Ratz. a single specimen, on rotting sticks in the Alda wall, Dunfermline, April, 1889 Tough but yielding under the pressure of the finger, slightly opaque yellowish, trunk, ascending, variously lobed, twisted and filicate, internally pale, containing subscripte very minute entangled filaments and amongst them exceedingly minute colourless points or spores. Between the inferior and superior yellowish areas shaped largely, forming the sides of flattened, coarsely lac is found a pale substance in which the filaments and spores are observable. The vegetative nature of the filaments is not very distinct, yet Minute certain. When moistened with moisture the surface is slippery to the touch but not adhesive. The generic character as given in Berkeley's "Receptacle bearing fruit all round" appears not applicable. The yellowish which coats seems to fade away and to perhaps be the contents of the ultimate vesicle, for the exterior coat whether eaten away by insects or by a natural process seems deficient in patches, especially at the edges.