810 Transactions. — Botany. 



9. Uromyces microtitidis, Cooke. 



On leaves of Microtis porrif alia. 



10. Helotium sordidum, Phil. 



Small stipitate fungus, beads circular, 2 lines diameter, 

 of a light-drab colour ; on the underside of rotten logs. 



11. H. pseudociliatum, Phil. 



A small species, with a white centre above, red below 

 and at margin ; margins ciliate ; on rotten wood. 



12. Patellaria toridispora, Cooke. 



On bark of a dead tree : small species. 



13. Rosellinia [Comochata) colensoi, Cooke. 



A curious small hairy fungus, with a black tip ; found 

 very sparingly nestling on dead wood. 



14. Xylaria pallida, Cooke. 



A curious elongated species, resembhng others of this 

 genus ; only once met with on a dead log, but in profusion 

 there. 



15. '■^^ Spharella tveimvannia, Cooke. 



Parasitical on leaves of Weinmannia racemosa. 



16. S. aristotelia, Cooke. 



On living leaves of Aristotelia racemosa. 



17. S. [Spharulina) assurgms, Cooke. 



A curious httle species, forming minute black spots on 

 fronds of living Trichomanes venosiwi. 



18. *Bery(/renia aurantiaca, Cooke ; var. cyclospora. 



A small bright-red sessile fungus, found sparingly, and 

 always singly, on the ground in forests; and almost in- 

 variably gnawed by insects. 



Here I would place two other new, but little known, in- 

 digenous species — Polyjwrus niricolvr, Col., and Ncctrio otoycnsis, 

 Curr., from the same parcel with the foregoing ; although both 

 have been already describtd: the first one ni "Trans. N.Z. 

 Inst.," vol. xvi., p. 3G1 ; and the second in a paper by Dr. 

 Lindsay, I'ublibhtd at Home. I now insert these two Fungi 

 here — the PuJyporus, because of it being now confirmed by Dr. 

 Cool<e, and tlie Ncctria, because of it being also foui.d here in 

 the ^(irth Island ; of this fungus there were three packets sent, 

 in various stages. (Its upccijic name is another witness to the 

 impropriety of giving such local habitats as a name for a 

 species.) 



