70 Transactions. — Botany. 



EXPLANATION OF PLA.TES V.-VII. 



Plate V. 



Fig. 1. Carpophyllum angustifolium, J. Ag. Bay of Islands ; collected in 



January ; R. M. L. 

 Fig. 2. Cdrpophylhcm iihyllanthus, Turn., Hist., iv. Both specimens are 



from the same plant, which was gathered at Lyall's Bay in the 



month of September. 



Plate VI. 



•Fig. 1. Carpophyllum viaschalocarpum. Turn., Hist., iv. Collected at 

 Lytteltou in the autumn ; R. M. L. 



Fig. 2. Carpophyllum masclialocarpum, var. laxum, R. M. L. Sugar- 

 loaves, Taranaki ; January; R. M. L. 



Fig. 3. Carpop]iyllu7n plumosum, J. Ag. Bay of Islands ; January; R.M.L. 

 The winter form differs from this considerably (see Plate VII., 

 fig. e). 



Plate VII. 



a. Carpophylhim maschalocarpum (tip of frond). 



b. C. angustifolium (tip of frond). 



c. C. maschalocarpum y var. laxum (tip of frond). 



d. C. ^jZwnoswu (tip of frond ; summer form). 



e. The same, winter form. 



/., g. Basal leaves of C. phyllanthus. 

 h. Leaf from upper ponion of plant. 

 All natural size. 



Art. XV. — On Neiv Lichens from Australia and New Zea- 

 land. 



By James Stikton, M.D., F.L.S., &c. 



(Continuation of Paper in Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xxx., p. 382.) 



Communicated by T. W. Naylor Beckett, F.L.S. 



\^Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbtcry, 6th September , 



1899.] 



Sticta rubella, Hook., presents obstacles to a complete 

 determination, inasnuich as the original specimens are barren. 

 Nylander in his Lich. N.Z. (1889) merely mentions two new 

 stations for the plant, without giving a desci'iption of the 

 apothecia or spores, leading to the inference that these are 

 also barren. 



In a parcel of lichens sent several years ago by the late 

 Baron F. von Mueller there is a Sticta in fruit, whose charac- 

 ters are nearly identical with those given by Nylander in his 

 Synopsis Meth., page 361. I am extremely sorry I can only 

 discriminate two or three of the specimens in this parcel. 

 The rest seem to have been soaked, almost macerated, in 



