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Forming effiised patches often 8-12 cm. long, encircling 

 branches ; more or less felty and soft, hymen ium often not 

 developed. Very destructive when it attacks fruit-trees. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES I AND II. 



Plate I. 



Fig. 1. TremeUa lutescens. Fries : natural size. 



Fig. 2. Basidia of same, in different stages of develojuiient ; x 50U. 



Fig. 3. Polyporus arcularius. Fries ; natural size. 



Fig. 4. Fomes australis, Fi-ies ; a very small specimen ; natural size. 



Fig. 5. Auricidaria mesenterica. Fries ; natural size. 



Fig. 0. Transversely septate basidium of No. 5 ; each cell of the basidium 



bears a single sterigma, \vith a sausage-shaped spore at its 



apex ; x 400. 



Plate II. 



Fig. L Cyphella densa. Berk. ; natural size. 



Fig. 2. Surface view and section of same ; slightly x . 



Fig. 3. Spores of same ; X 400. 



Fig. 4. Guepinia spathidaria, Fi'ies ; a group of plants ; natiu-ai^ize. 



Fig. 5. Clavaria ahorescetu, Berk.; natural size. y^C \\j A f^"^^^ 



Fig. 6. PistUlaria ovata. Fries ; natural size. /T^^ /^s 



Fig. 7. Poria hyalina. Berk. ; natural size. 



Fig. 8. Hirneola polytricJui, Mont. ; natural size. 



Fig. 9. Craterella insignis, Cooke ; natural size. 



Fig. 10. Stereum illudens. Berk. : natural size. 



Fig. 11. Section of No. 10; natiual size. 



Art. II. — Transpacific Longitudes. 



By Otto Klotz, LL.D., F.R.A.S., Honorary Member, New 

 Zealand Institute. 

 [Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 5th April, 1006.] 

 On the 31st December, 1900, articles of contract were made by 

 Her Majesty's Government, Canada, New South Wales, Victoria, 

 New Zealand, and Queensland on the one part, and the Tele- 

 graph Construction and Maintenance Company on the other, 

 for the construction and laying of the Pacific cable. The contract 

 called for the completion of the whole cable on or before the 

 31st December, 1902. The cable was finished two months 

 ■earlier, and, after undergoing the required test of a month, entered 

 upon its commercial career on the 8th Deconber, 1902. Thus 

 was the project that had been advocated with persistence from 

 some quarters for a quarter of a century an accomplished fact ; 

 the missing link of about eight thousand miles across the Pacific 

 between Canada and Australia, in the world's metallic girdle, 

 was now supplied. 



