CoLENso. — On Keir Cryjitogcons. 615 



Rhizopus nigricans, Elir. 

 Mucor mucedo, L. 

 With several others (Fuinjl) that were dupUcates of species 

 formerly sent, together with some that were immature, im- 

 perfect, mycelium only, and not determinable. 



One species in particular of this named lot deserves a 

 passing special mention — viz., Hydnangiiim hrishanevse — as 

 this curious species I found here at Napier in my house- 

 paddock, growing pretty plentifully on the ground under the 

 shade of some large blue-gum trees (Eucalyptus globulus), 

 where I had never noticed it before. It is, as its specific 

 name denotes, an Australian species. Other Australian species 

 {e.g., Polysticlus citreus, h-jjex Jlavus, Stemonitis fusca, &c.) 

 were also aniong the little lot sent, obtained by me from the 

 distant forests ; but this one is a species of a more especial 

 and small Australian genus, two other species of this genus 

 being also known — H. tasmanicum, Kalch, and II. australi- 

 ense, Berk, (this last, however, was subsequently removed by 

 Berkeley himself into an allied Australian genus, Octaviand) . 

 This is also the second time that I have found peculiar Aus- 

 tralian species of Fungi here at Napier on the bare ground 

 under blue-gum trees. Of course, I do not mean to imply 

 there is any connection, anything regular, natural, or occult 

 in the circumstances ("There is a river in Macedon ; and 

 there is also a river at Monmouth ; but 'tis all one : and there 

 is salmons in both," as Shakespeare has it) ; but it almost 

 seems like a peculiar concatenation of secret natural pheno- 

 mena — which, though at present merely noticed, vv'ill probably 

 hereafter become elucidated. 



Art. LX. — Cryptogams : A Description of Ttco New Ferns, 

 a New Lycopodium, and a New Moss, lately detected in our 

 New Zealand Forests. 



By W. CoLENSo, F.R.S., F.L.S. (Lond.), &c. 



"Read be fori' tlie Hatvke's Bay Pliilosopltical histitiite, 21st October, 



1895.: 



Class III. CRYPTOGAMIA. 



Order I. Filices. 

 Genus 16. Lomaria, Willd. 

 1. L. distans, sp. nov. 



Plant small, tufted, glabrous. Rootstock slender, woody, 

 hard, black, composed of coalesced stipites, thickly clothed 



