116 NOTES AND ADDITIONtS TO TIE FUNGUS FLO(!A. 



Gordyceps gracilis, Grev. A specimen of this has 

 recently been gathered on Mt. Nelson Range. Two 

 *'lubs emerged from a larva; stipes pale, about 1 cm., 

 head oblong, yellow, about 4 mm. long. 



Mr. Olliff, once Government Entomologist of New 

 South Wales, renamed this as C. scottianus, but there 

 wa« no apparent justification. As he also named a 

 form of G. rohertsii as new, under the name of G. 

 ficlkirkii, and another as G. coxii, and further resusci- 

 tated a plate of G. taylnri. Berk., which had appeared 

 in Hooker's Jom-n. Bot. N.S., Vol. II., 1843, and made 

 it the type of a new species, under the name G. 

 tricteiKe, his suggested new species have not been 

 generally accepted. 



Gordyceps robertsii, Hook. The well known Veget- 

 able Caterpillar of New Zealand has been recently 

 gathered in a gully at the foot of Mt. Wellington. It 

 is easy to overlook this, and pi"obably diligent search 

 will bring more to light. 



Gyatopus tragopoff(>ni>^, Schr. Occui's on many 

 different Composites, but is particularly abundant on 

 the leaves of Lagennphom emphyxopus^ forming con- 

 spieuou.s white patches. 



Amongst the Incompletse, the following interest- 

 ing forms may be recorded: — 



Dendrodochium ninlle, 7i.s. Subglobose from a 



broad base, 2-4 mm. diam., soft waxy-gelatinous, dull 

 white. Conidiophorcs verticillate, conidia single, ter- 

 minating long slender branches, ?> x 4 ^u. 



Common on dead wood, collapsing when dry into 

 a flat scale. 



VerticiUiuin later it iuin. Berk., forming broadly 

 offused velvety orange-red or vermilion coloured 

 patches. Sporophores erect, verticil] at ely branched, 

 conidia elliptic, red, 4-6 x 3 /*• 



Common on dead vegetable substances. 



Stilbum erythrocepnalum, Ditm. Stem thick, to- 

 mentose, whitish, terminating in a turbinato-globose. 

 rosy or deep red head; conidia elliptical, 4-6 x 2-2.3. 

 hyaline, borne on slender sepia to, colourless conidio- 

 phores that are nodulose at the apex, 50-60 x 3-3.5 ^. 

 (Massee). 



On rabbit's dung. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXVi. 



SPRAGUEOLA MUCIDA, ii..s. 



1. Tuber s 10. 2. Section. 3. Ascus ami Paraphysis, Spore. 



