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affinity with A. candidum, Eaoul, and A. reflexum, Col.," but 

 widely different from both in habit and in general appearance 

 and in several important characters. Its leaves (both radical 

 and cauline) are larger and differently shaped and coloured 

 (not like common grass leaves) ; stem much taller and 12- 

 branched; branches very loDg and patent (and sometimes 

 again branched) ; flowers smaller with different perianth-seg- 

 ments and anthers. But while the differences are many and 

 great they are difficult to accurately describe in words, though 

 soon apparent on examination and comparison with the above- 

 named two species. This plant is also allied to a New Cale- 

 donian one — A. neocaledonicum, Baker. It also possesses in 

 a striking degree that peculiar quality I had noticed in A. re- 

 flexum (I.e.), of only one flower (on a branch) opening at one 

 time, and this in early morning, and so remaining until even- 

 ing, when the perianth falls down, resuming its former posi- 

 tion, and closely enwraps the ovarium, as in the other plant. 



II. I have only seen this one specimen here described, and 

 the peculiar (almost unique) manner of my getting it deserves 

 a brief notice. In June, 1892 (during a long wet winter 

 season), I received a dripping muddy parcel of small ferns and 

 other low herbaceous plants, roots and all, in tufts, as torn up 

 from their low and wet habitat (the friend who sent them was 

 there on a geological visit). It took me some considerable 

 time to wash and clean them, and while so engaged I found a 

 very small unequally semi-fascicled or trilobed root (less than 

 a shilling in circumference), without any traces of leaves, 

 stem, &c, and apparently half-dead : this, however, I kept 

 and planted, and this neat plant has been evolved from it. 

 So I am rewarded. 



Akt. XLIV. — A List of Fungi recently detected and collected 

 in the Bush District, County of Haivke's Bay ; being a 

 Further Contribution to the Indigenous Flora of New Zea- 

 land. 



By W. Colenso, F.E.S., F.L.S. (Loud.), &c. 



[Read before the Haivke's Bay Philosophical Institute, 28th November, 



1892.] 



In January last I despatched to the Director of the Eoyal 

 Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, another lot of Fungi that I 

 had gathered at various times during the preceding year in the 

 forest country around Dannevirke. This parcel contained 



* Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xviii., p. 275. 



