Massee. — On the Fungus Flora of New Zealand. 327 



attached, at first cup-shaped, then with the hyinenium down- 

 wards ; pileus covered with clusters of tawny thick- walled 

 hairs ; gills rather close together, narrow, hairy, buff. 



On dead and decayed wood. Northern Island, New Zea- 

 land. 



A minute and curious species ; pileus densely covered with 

 thick- walled tawny hairs arranged in fascicles ; gills with the 

 component hyphse running out at the margin and sides into 

 free hairs. Spores not seen. Type specimen examined. 



82. Pleurotus ajyplicatus, Batsch, fig. 125 ; Austr. Fung., 

 p. 35; Sacc, Syll. v., no. 1504. 



Pileus saucer-shaped and orbicular when young, usually 

 sessile and fixed by the downy base, rarely furnished with a 

 very short rudimentary stem, when adulc more or less re- 

 flexed, slightly fleshy, striate when moist, minutely pruinose 

 when young, then glabrous or downy, 4-8 mm. across; colour 

 variable, blackish-blue, ashy-grey, or dark-grey ; gills radiat- 

 ing from a central or excentric point, scanty, rather thick, 

 broad, distant, grey, the margin usually whitish ; spores glo- 

 bose, 4-5 [J. diameter. 



On rotten wood. New Zealand. Australia, Tasmania, 

 Europe, Siberia, United States, Cuba, zVrgentine Eepublic, 

 Island of Juan Fernandez. 



Distinguished by the minute species, by the dingy colour of 

 the pileus, grey gills, and by the resupinate habit, having the 

 gills uppermost, and the pileus resting on the substratum. 



83. Pleurotus affixus, Berk., Decad. Fung., no. 193, in Lond. 

 Journ. Bot., 1848, p. 573; Austr. Fung., p. 34; Sacc, 

 Syll. v., no. 1444. 



Densely gregarious ; minute, cup-shaped, reflexed and at- 

 tached by the side, coarsely striate, membranaceous, whitish, 

 3mm. broad; gills adnate, thick, ascending, arcuate, rather 

 distant ; spores elliptical, 5x3; stem very short, smooth, 

 recurved. 



On bark of standing trees, &c. New Zealand. Tasmania. 



Densely gregarious ; covering the bark in broad patches. 

 Readily distinguished by its habit, form, and small size. 



24. Laccaria, Berk, and Broome. 

 Pileus thin, regular ; gills adnate, white, becoming mealy with 

 the spores; stem central, externally fibrous; spores white, 

 globose, minutely warted. 



Laccaria, B. and Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., 1883, p. 370. 



Allied to Clitocybe, under which genus the species of Lac- 

 caria were at one time included. Characterized by the 

 broadly adnate gills, which become powdered at maturity 



