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135. Westringia senifoUa, F, Muell. ; erect; stems densely hirsute ; 

 leaves about six in a whorl, crowded, spreading, lanceolate-linear, acute, 

 sessile, with revolute margins, above glabrescent and scabrous, beneath 



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as well as the calyces hirsute ; flowers white, axillary, nearly sessile, 



forming on the top of the twigs a foliate spike ; calyces to the middle 



divided, hardly as long as the leaves ; its segments lanceolate-subulate. 



Hab. On rocks in the BuflFalo Ranges and on the summit of Mount 

 Buller. 



Westring: 



lightly 



glabrous on both surfaces or beneath along the rib hairy, above dotted- 

 scabrous ; pedicels, calyces, and twigs appressed-hairy ; bracteoles 

 linear-subulate, four or five times shorter than the calyx ; teeth of the 

 calyx lanceolate, acuminate, hardly longer than its tube ; corolla viola- 

 ceous, puberulous. 



137. Westringia GreviUina, F. Muell. ; leaves three in a whorl, co- 

 riaceous, broad-linear, spreading, acute, with revolute margin, above 

 smooth, beneath as wejll as calyces and branchlets more or less grey 

 velvet-hairy 5 teeth of the calyx much shorter than its tube; corolla 

 velvet-hairy. 



Hab. On the rocky coast of the Port Lincoln District, C. JFilhelmu 

 Nearest in its affinity to W, ci^ierea. 



{To be continued.) 



Decades of Fungi; by the Rev. M, J. Berkeley, M.A,, F.KS, 



Decades LV.-LVI. 

 (With Plates V., VL, TX., X.) 



Rio Negro Fungi. 



(Continued from p. 143.) 



541. P. (Mesopus) pansus, n. s. ; pileo orbiculari latissime umbilicato 

 tenui rigido radiatim rugoso lineatoque, brunneo, zonis crcbris obscu- 

 rioribus subtiliter pruinoso, margine arcuato; stipite tenui brunneo 

 pruinoso ; hymenio candido, pons punctiformibus, contextu pallido 

 zonato- Spruce, n. 205. 



wood. Panure. 



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