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from beneath. Male plant : fructification irregularly scattered 

 beneath m sub-globular tubercular lumps on upper portion of 

 stem and on the branches. 



Hab. Plentiful in a muddy swamp, in a deep low dark 

 shaded forest near Norsewood, County of Waipawa ; 1886 : 

 W.C. 



Obs. I. This species is peculiar from its wide, flat,' strap- 

 shaped calyptra and its globular capsule, also from its strictly 

 dioecious manner of growth. It forms dense compact patches or 

 small beds, something like thick beds of young cress (Lepidum 

 sativi(7)i) or parsley : and these are generally of two kinds or 

 sizes : the larger (taller and bigger fronds and finer patches) 

 contain only male plants, and the smaller and shorter the female 

 ones, and these never appear to intermix. Indeed, I was a very 

 long time (parts of two days,) before I found a single female 

 plant bearing fructification, and was about giving it up in 

 despair, as I had confined my search to the finer masses ; and 

 it was only by chance that I happened to look among the 

 smaller-sized plants. 



II. This species has pretty close affinity with S. longistipa, 

 S.fetida, and S. megalolepis, Col.,* and with S. flabellata, Mont., 

 (" N.Z. Flora,") but is distinct from them all. 



Art. XXXV. — An Enumeration of Fungi recently discovered in 

 New Zealand, with brief Notes on the Species Novse. 



By Wn^LiAM CoLENSO, F.E.S., F.L.S. 



[Read before the Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute, 13th September, 1886.] 



Last year (1885,) I again sent a lot of Fungi to Kew, London, 

 which I had for the greater part discovered during the pre- 

 ceding twelve months, in my several visits to the dense forests 

 and deep glens of the Seventy-mile Bush, County of Waipawa ; 

 a few of them also being from Napier. Most of them were forms 

 that were new to me, although I knew some of their genera and 

 allied species. Altogether they comprised about 400 separate 

 packets, containmg, however, a much larger number of speci- 

 mens. I sent them to Kew, to the kind care of the late Director 

 of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sir J. D. Hooker, K.C.S.I., etc., 

 in order to get them determined (if possible) by the eminent 

 fungologist. Dr. Cooke, who had so very kindly done as much 

 for a smaller lot, collected in the same localities, and sent 

 thither by me in 1883. I have very recently received from the 



* " Trans. N.Z. Inst," vol. xvi., pp. 353-365. 



