802 Transactions. — Botany. 



present Director at Kew (J. T. Thiselton-Dyer, C.M.G., etc.,) 

 a long, complete, and valuable list of the same, as again kindly 

 determined by Dr, Cooke ; and this (under separate heads) 1 

 purpose now laying before you, omitting only those species 

 which were already known and described in the " Handbook 

 Flora of New Zealand," and also in my supplementary paper of 

 newly-discovered Fungi, read before the Wellington Philosophical 

 Society in 1884.* I shall classify them thus : — 



1. Foreign Fungi already described, but not before found in 



New Zealand ; 



2. Indigenous species wholly new to science, true species 



nova. 

 The remainder will consist of species already described as 

 inhabiting New Zealand — incomplete and imperfect specimens 

 of Mycelium, etc., that cannot at present be determined ; (on 

 some of these, however. Dr. Cooke has observed, "it is possibly 

 new;") specimens of minute Lichensf having a semi-fungoid 

 appearance ; and a few species of small and allied terrestrial 

 Algfe. 



From these classified lists you will learn that out of the 

 large number of species sent to Kew, (several of them being in 

 duplicate and some in triplicate, arising from some species of 

 Fungi being perennial, and to their varying states and ages, and 

 to the different seasons in which they were collected,) a total of 

 179 species are new to the New Zealand flora ; and of these 

 only 18 species have been determined as new to science. 



FUNGI. 



Section I. — Foreign Fungi already described, but not before 

 found in New Zealand. 



* Of genera known to inhabit New Zealand. 



Genus l.| Agaricus, Linn. 



1. A. (Amanita) vaginatus, Fr. 



2. A. {Pleurotus) serotinus, Fr. 



3. A. {Pleurotus) atroaeruleus, Batsch. 



4. A. (Pleurotus) chioneus, P. 



5. A. (Pleurotus) affixus, B. 



6. A. (Colhjhia) radicatus, Fr. 



7. A. (Colh/bia) xanthopus, Fr., vel. prox. 



8. A. (Collybia) raphanipes v. ylaucojjJiyllus. 



' Art xxviii., " Trans. N.Z. Inst.," vol. xvii., p. 265. 



t These, however, were not sent as Lichens ; of which order there are 

 also a large number of specimens collected, to be hereafter examined. The 

 same may also be said of the few packets of minute terrestrial Algte con- 

 tained in that i^arcel. 



I The numbers in this paper attached to genera are those of " The 

 Handbook New Zealand Flora." 



