252 NOTES ON SOME COMPOSIT® OF OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND. 
neath a railway bridge.” It was also found by Dr. Bull under a 
railway bridge at Leeds about a mile out on the Harrogate line. 
Some of the specimens sent on to me were very fine, exactly resem- 
bling Sowerby’s figure (Eng. Fungi, t. 382), with curious abortive 
plants growing at the base; spores pale yellow, larger than the last. 
Since the above lines were printed it has come up in the greatest 
abundance through brick earth, from railway sleepers, at the Kentish 
Town mouth of the Hampstead Heath tunnel of the North London 
Railway. I saw it from the carriage window, on August 9, as the 
train stopped at the Hampstead Heath station, so I got out and filled 
a large box with it. It was also found at Street, Somerset, habitat 
not stated. 
Boletus variegatus, Fr. Fordingbridge, Hants, October, 1868. 
New Forest, near Lyndhurst, October, 1868. Mr. Broome. 
B. estivalis, Fr. Always common about Staplehurst, Kent, in the 
early summer. 
B. viscidus, Fr. Common in same district in the autumn. 
Hydnum gelatinosum, Scop. Fir trunk, Fordingbridge, Hants. 
Mr. J. A. Clark 
Sparassis crispa, Fr. Border of a fir wood near Fordingbridge, 
Hants. Mr. J. A. Clark. 
Clavaria fumosa,P. Always in the autumn about Long Sutton, Hants. 
EXPLANATION oF PraTE XOV.—Figs. 1 and 2, Agaricus Soke 
loma) brevipes, = Fig. 3, section of ditto. Fig. 4, spore 
enlarged 700 
diam. Figs. 5 and 6, A. (Flammula) decipiens, n. sp. Fi ig. 7, li 1 of ditto. 
Fig. 8, spores aa 206 
NOTES ON SOME COMPOSITA OF OTAGO, NEW 
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By W. Lauper Linpsay, M.D., F.R.S.E., F.L.S. 
Some of the Otago Composite are handsome trees or shrubs, with 
abundant foliage and flower: and, especially under cultivation, most 
ornamental; decided acquisitions, therefore, to the shrubberies and 
gardens of settlers, and worthy of extensive introduction into Britain. 
Moreover the stem occasionally attains such dimensions that the timber 
becomes valuable, especially from the beauty of its markings, in cabinet- 
work, Some alpine or subalpine species of such genera as Raoulia, 
