Fungi '.] 



FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. 



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Forming little distinct patches, consisting of numerous fasciculate, pendulous, pruinose, elongated, fawn-coloured 

 bodies, attached by their apex. Hymenium of the same colour, even. Spores elliptic, -g-gVo of an inch long. — The 

 meal with which the pilei are clothed consists of short, obtuse flocci. — This species has many of the characters of 

 Oyphella pendula, but that is a far larger species. C. Gayana, Lev., is much larger and not fasciculate, in which 

 latter character it agrees with C. fasciculate/,, Berk, et Curt., though very different in other respects, ft cupulceformis, 

 Berk, et Eav., differs in its solitary habit, form, and dark hymenium. 



Gen. XVIII. GUEPINIA, Fries. 



Gelatinosa, subtremellina, intumescens, sicca contrahitur, subcartilaginea. Hymenium distinctum, 

 definite inferum vel primitus superum, immutatum, persistens. 



Intermediate between Tremellini and Anricularini. The species are for the most part very beautiful and inter- 

 esting, the finest, however, occurring in Europe and South Carolina. (Named after Guepin, a French Botanist.) 



1. Guepinia spathularia, Fr. Ep. p. 566. 



Hab. Springing from the cracks of a decayed log, Pahiatua, Colenso. 



2. Guepinia pezizceformis, Berk, in Hook. Lond. J. Bot. v. 4i.p. 60. 

 Hab. On dead wood, Bay of Islands, J. D. H. 



Gen. XIX. HYPOCHNUS, Fries. 



Plano-expansus, membranaceus, sed totus e floccis fibrosis contextus. Hymenium pruinosum. Sports 

 conglobatee, normaliter floccis obvolutae. 



An ill defined genus, the structure of which is not at present perfectly understood. It is not improbable that 

 the species, some of which are very common in tropical regions, are anamorphoses of Lichens. (Name from vrro, 

 under, and ayy?], or x"oo<s, down.) 



1. Hypochnus albo-cinctus, Mont. Cub. p. 368. 

 Hab. On dead bark, Bay of Islands, /. D. H. 

 Probably a degeneration of some Lichen. 



Gen. XX. CLAVARIA, L. 



Carnosa, ramosa 1. simplex, teres, absque stipite distincto ; hymenio contiguo sicco. 



A large genus, very widely distributed, more especially in temperate regions. Many of the species are excel- 

 lent articles of food. Fungi of a similar form occur in other groups, but those of the present genus are at once 

 distinguishable by the exposed hymenium producing naked spores. (Name from clava, a club.) 



1. Clavaria lutea, Vitt. Mang. t. 29./". 3. 

 Hab. On the ground, Bidwill. 



The specimens exactly resemble Vittadini's figure. All the allied species are excellent when stewed. 



2. Clavaria pusio, Berk. ; stipite gracili sursum crassiore ad basin ipsam in ramos paucos adscendentes 

 acutos diviso. 



Hab. On the naked soil, Colenso. 



About i an inch high. Stem not a line thick, rather incrassated above, divided into a few acute, cylindrical, 

 ascending branches, about as long as the stem, making an acute angle with each other, and rarely subdivided. — This 

 species has nearly the same appearance as C. chondroides, which it much resembles, but differently branched, and 



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