BY D. McALPINE. 



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On the ground and on dead portions of Azorella. Greenland 

 Harbour. Between 27th and 30t;i January, 1898. 



Geog. Dist. — New Zealand and Kerguelen I. 



Mr. Hall states that he was struck with the bright appearance 

 of this fungus, like so many brick- red cups, and generally 8 or 10 

 together. 



Panaeolus Hallii, n.sp. 



(Plate XIII., figs, 5a, ob, 6.) 



Minute, about -^^ in. high. Pileus conical, buflf-coloured, mealy, 

 about ^ in. high and ^ in. across, with flattened apical disc some- 

 what darker coloured. Gills adnexed, gi-eyish and mottled with 

 black spores. kStem similarly coloured to pileus, mealy, hollow, 

 tapering to a point at apex, slightly swollen and darker at base. 

 Spores black, yellowish-brown by transmitted light, elliptical to 

 oval, thick-walled, 11-15 x 9-11 fx. 



On damp ground among moss. About 28th January, 1898. 

 South Head of Royal Sound. 



Only a few specimens were met with, and they were not 

 gregarious, but they might easily be overlooked on account of 

 their small size. The mealy co\'ering was very uniform over the 

 whole. 



On the decaying wood of the Kerguelen Island Cabbage 

 ( Pringlea antiscorbutica, Brown), which was considerably bored 

 by the larvse of the Cabbage Fly, I found four species of sapro- 

 phytic fungi : — 



1. AsPER(.iLLUS GLAUcus, Link, generally overspreads the wood, 

 forming masses of its glaucous heads of conidia. This species has 

 not hitherto been recorded here, but in Hooker's " Flora 

 Antarctica," Eurotium herbariorum, Link, of which Aspergillus 

 is the conidial condition, is recorded on biscuit on board the 

 '"Erebus," Jan. 3rd, 1811. In this way the fungus may have 

 been introduced, and it was the greenish hue of the wood which 

 attracted Mr. Hall's attention and induced him to collect it. 



