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fourths of their length, vertical, their upper portion usually 

 curved and compressed while young, hut afterwards gaping ; 

 margms entire and sub-sinuate; cells distinct, irregular in 

 size, but mostly quadriform (parallelogrammic), disposed in 

 longitudinal parallel lines, their centres dusky, their edges 

 thickened, dark. Receptacle small, included ; capsules few at 

 the base. 



Hab. Plentifully on the trunk of a large tree, in a thicket, 

 south of Dannevirke, County of Waipawa ; 1887-90 : W. G. 



Obs. I. This fern has caused me a deal of labour and 

 research, extending over several years, arising from my never 

 having detected it bearing fruit until this year (1890). In 

 some of its characters it is allied to H. muUifidum, Sw., but 

 in others it is very distinct from that species as described, 

 and especially from that of the typical specimen with illustra- 

 tions and dissections, given in Hook, and Greville's " Icones 

 Filicum; " its fruitful fronds are very rare. 



II. If I mistake not, I found this same fern 40-45 years 

 ago in the Fagus woods on the secondary western summits of 

 the Euahine Mountain-range, completely covering the ground 

 with its thick perennial matting. I assiduously sought for 

 fruiting specimens on everj^ journey thither, btit was always 

 unsuccessful. 



[Mounted specimens of all these plants were also shown 

 at those two meetings. — W. C] 



.\iiT. XLI. — An Enumeration of Fungi recently discovered 

 in New Zealand. 



By V/. CoLENSo, F.E.S., F.L.S., &c. 



Read before the Hmvkc's Bay rhilosophical Institute, 11th Novonbcr, 



1890.] 



In the autumn of this year I again sent a lot of Fungi to Kew, 

 London (with other plants, both Phsenogams and Cryptogams), 

 which I had discovered at various times during the last foui- 

 years in my visits to the dense forests and deep glens of the 

 Sevency-mile Bush district. County of Waipawa ; a few of 

 them also being from Napier. Several of them were forms 

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

 and allied species. Altogether they numbered nearly one 

 thousand separate packets, containing also a much larger 

 number of specimens, but several were duplicates, and, indeed, 

 three to four times repeated, having been obtained in dif- 



