320 Transactions. — Botany. 



anthesin) adhering to tip of upper valve of ovary (marces- 

 cent), expanded about 1 line diameter; sepals and petals 

 ovate-deltoid obtuse, silvery-shining, very membranous ; ovary 

 large, subobovoid, gibbous, 2 lines long, yellow, thickly 

 glandular-echinate (as, also, top of peduncle above bract), 

 bivalved ; valves gaping, but not to base largely concave, dis- 

 similar, broad, yo^u- diameter, obtuse; margins undulate un- 

 even, thickened ; the upper and larger valve with 2 lateral 

 nerves ; the lower 1 central one. Seeds very minute, sub- 

 fusiform, thin, white, scarious. 



Hab. On trunks of trees, forest near Kumeroa, Eiver 

 Manawatu, County of Waipawa ; May, 1893 : Mr. H. Hill. 



Obs. I. This interesting little plant is allied to B. 

 pygmaum, Lind., which prima facie it closely resembles, 

 differing largely, however, on close examination, particularly 

 in its glandul8.r-echinate ovary and leaf. It is also a still 

 smaller species. The ripe capsule gaping so curiously at its 

 sutures, somewhat resembling the open mouth of a fish, is the 

 cause of its specific name. 



II. Although I received a large patch, or mat, of the plant 

 (about 4;in.-5in. each way), I only detected 6-7 pale-yellow 

 capsules, all alike in size and form, and broadly gaping, and 

 each bearing its minute withered flower, the plant being long 

 past flowering, so that all allowance must be made for the im- 

 perfect description of the perianth. The microscopic seeds 

 were also plentifully shed, scattered like dust over the neigh- 

 bouring plants. Perfect flowers are much desired. 



Art. XXXIV. — A List of Fungi recently collected in the 

 Bush District, County of Waipaiva ; being a Further 

 Contribution to the Indigenous Flora of Neiu Zealand. 



By W. CoLENSO, F.E.S., F.L.S. (Lond.), &c. 



[Read before the Hazvke's Bay Philosoi^hical Institute, 9th October, 1893.] 



Again, in January last, I despatched to the Director of the 

 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, another lot of Fungi 

 that I had gathered at various times during the preceding 

 winter and spring in the forest country near to Dannevirke. 

 This parcel contained 175 separate packets. I have lately 

 received from Kew the list of the same examined and named, 

 from which it appear^ that several of them were fresh dupli- 

 cates of specimens formerly sent; others were in triplicate 

 (some of them being perennial, and, being also in different 

 stages of growth, presented various forms and appearances) ; 



