614 Transactions. — Botany. 



Art. LIX. — Neic Zealand Cryptogams : A List of a Few 

 Additional Cryptogamic Plants, of the Orders Hepaticse 

 and Fungi, more recently delected in Neiv Zealand. 



By W. CoLENso, F.E.S., F.L.S. (Lond.), &c. 



[Bead before the Hawhe'ti Bay Philosophical Institute, 21st October, 



1895.] 



During the last year (1894) I sent to Kew several parcels of 

 cryptogamic plants that I had collected during preceding years 

 in the bush district of Hawke's Bay ; njosses and lichens 

 formed by far the larger portion, with some Hepaticce and 

 Fungi. From letters since received from the director there, 

 I find the following species were determined as being new to 

 the botany of New Zealand. The HciJaticce (as on former oc- 

 casions) were submitted to Dr. F. Stephani, of Leipzig, for 

 examination and report : — 



Hepatic^. 



Plagiochila olivacea, Steph., sp. nov. 

 Jamesoniella patula, Steph. 

 Frullania kirkii, Stcph., sp. nov. 

 Trichocolea tomentella. Sic, alpine form. 

 Metzgeria furcata, var. nuda. 



Of Hepaticce there were 112 distinct packets (many being 

 duplicates, in fruit, &c., of those formerly sent), but of them 

 these five were not received before, and only two of them were 

 species novce.. 



Fungi. 



Agaricus (Leptoma) lampropus, Fr. 



A. (Omphalia) pyxidatus. Bull. 



Flammula xanchophylla, Cooke and Mass. 



Polystictus pinsitus, Fr. 



P. citreus, Berk. 



P. occidentalis, Kl. 



Favolus hepaticus, Kl. 



Irpex flavus, Jungh . 



I. sinuosus, Fr. 



Corticeum lacteum, Fr. 



Clavaria juncea, Fr. 



Bovista ainethystina, C. and M. 



^cidium epilobii, DC. 



Penio]3hora gigantea, Mass. 



Tremella mesenterica, Fr. 



Hydnangium brisbanense, B. et Br. 



Stemonitis fusca, Both. 



