Fungi^\ 



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allied to such species as D. unicolor ; and though the dissepiments are irregular, there are very evident pores, while 

 in some parts there are as evident teeth. The species is at any rate undescribed, whatever may be thought of the 

 genus.— Plate CV. Fig. 4. Doedalea pendula, Berk., natural size. 



Gen. XI. PAVOLUS, Fries. 



Carnoso-lentus. Hymenium reticulatum, cellulosum, alveolatum. Alveoli radiantes, e lamellis dense 

 anastomosantibus formati, elongati, parietibus duplicatis. 



The species of this genus approach very near to such Polypori as P. squamosum, from which perhaps they are 

 scarcely separable. The pores, however, in the allied Polypori, are minute at first, and then dilated : whereas those 

 of Favolus are cellular from the beginning, resembling in fact those at the base of the gills of Agaricus ostreatus. 

 (Name from favus, a honeycomb.) 



1. Favolus intestinalis, Berk, in Hook. Jowrn. Bot. 1851, p. 167. 

 Hab. On dead wood amongst moss, Colenso. 



Gen. XII. HYDNUM, L. 



Hymenium in fungo horizontali inferum ; aculeis inter se liberis, deorsuin spectantibus. 



A very important section of Fungi, comprising far the larger part of those whose hymenium is spread over 

 elongated, more or less filiform or aculeiform processes. A few species are excellent when cooked, as for instance 

 Hydnum repandum, which is scarcely inferior to Tuber astivum. (Name from iSvov, a fungus.) 



* Hydnum clalhroides, Pallas. 



Hab. On Knightia excelsa, in dense forests, Manawatu, Colenso. Native name, Pekepeke Eiore. 



Of this I have seen only a decayed fragment. The plant, when fresh, is said to be of " a light whitish-brown," 

 and to attain a large size. Without further information I do not hesitate to consider it merely as a state of the 

 species of Pallas. 



1. Hydnum scopinellum, Berk.; eifusum, albidum, subiculo intertexto, aculeis basi tomentosis, apice 

 peniciilato. 



Hab. On dead wood, Colenso. 



Widely effused ; subiculum composed of delicate, interwoven threads, which make the base of the aculei tomen- 

 tose, tips penicillate. — Allied to H. ciliolatum, Berk, et Curt., but the prickles are not flat, nor are they properly 

 denticulate. A form occurs in which they are dwarf and badly developed. 



Gen. XIII. IBPEX, Fries. 



Hymenium inferum, primitus dentatum. Denies varii, firmi, subcoriacei, acuti, cum pileo omnino con^ 

 creti, seriatim 1. reticulatim dispositi, basique plicis lamellosis (in sessilibus) porosisve (in resupinatis) con- 

 catenate 



Just intermediate between Polyporus and Hydnum, combining the characters of both genera. The tendency, 

 however, is towards the former genus, though the teeth are very distinct. The species belong principally to tem- 

 perate climates. (Name from irpex, a harrow ; in allusion to the firm teeth of the hymenium.) 



1. Irpex brevis, Berk.; subimbricata, brevis, dimidiata, mycelio expanso, pileo albo hie illic rufescente 

 innato-fibrilloso, dentibus elongatis compressis dentatis. 



Hab. On dead bark, Bay of Islands, J. I). II. 



Loosely and distantly imbricated. Mycelium thin, running in little patches over the bark, from which spring 

 dimidiate, somewhat pendulous pilei, scarcely half an inch long, and twice as much broad, which are at first white 



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