344 Transactions. — Botavy. 



uppermost and the pileus in contact with the substratum, 

 3-6 mm. across; gills adnate, distant, rather broad, some- 

 times forked, shorter intermediate ones present, scarcely or 

 not at all connected by veins, pale yellowish-bufi' when dry ; 

 spores elliptical, 6-7 X 4/x; stem lateral or nearly so, short, 

 slender, coloured like the pileus, arched and standing above 

 the pileus when the latter is inverted. 



On slender branches and twigs, lying on the ground. New 

 Zealand. 



A minute but very interesting species, sent to Kew by 

 Colenso (no. b, 563), and was at the time referred to Maras- 

 viius spanio2:)hyllus, Berk., from which species it is indeed 

 truly distinct. The last-named species must therefore be 

 removed from the list of New Zealand Fungi. Eeadily dis- 

 tinguished by its small size and peculiar inverted habit of 

 growth. 



33. Panus, Fries. 



Entirely coriaceous, tough, drying up. Pileus irregular, 

 stipitate, sessile, horizontal or resupinate ; gills more or 

 less decurrent, margin thin, quite entire ; stem excentric, 

 lateral, or entirely absent ; spores white. 



Panus, Fries, Epicr., p. 396. 



Allied to Lentinus in the tough coriaceous substance, but 

 at once distinguished by the gills having the margin or edge 

 quite entire. On wood. 



120. Panus macidatus, Berk., Flora N.Z., p. 176; Hdbk. 

 N.Z. Flora, p. 606; Sacc, Syll. v., no. 2577. 



Closely imbricated or overlapping. Pilei reniform, convex, 

 at first innato-tomentose, the cuticle cracking up into shortly 

 reflexed scales, at length quite smooth ; margin slightly in- 

 volute ; stems connate, scarcely visible except in young 

 pilei ; gills rather distant, decurrent, broad, wavy when 

 dry, margin quite entire ; spores hyaline, oblong, about 8 fi 

 long. 



On dead trunks. Northern Island, New Zealand. 



The scales arise from the cracking of the cuticle, in conse- 

 quence of which a slight portion is reflected in front, while 

 that behind is not at all disturbed. Ample. (Berk.) 



121. Panus incandescens, Berk, and Broome, Trans. Linn. Soc, 

 ser. ii., vol. ii., p. 55; Austr. Fung., p. 96; Sacc, Syll. v., 

 no. 2451. 



Entirely whitish or dingy ; pileus varying from umbilicate 

 to deeply funnel-shaped, glabrous, but very minutely wrinkled 

 or virgate, margin persistently incurved, 4-10 cm. across, often 

 very irregular in form ; flesh thick at the disc, whitish, tough ; 



