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FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. 



\Fungi 



on a smaller scale. The colour of the- dried plant is rufous. As no notes accompanied the specimen, I cannot tell 

 what was the original colour. The habit is somewhat that of 0. macropus. 



3. Clavaria flagelllformis, Berk. ; ramosissima, ad basin ipsam divisa, ramis subfasciculatis fastigiatis 

 cylindricis elongatis furcatis acutis apice indivisis. 



Hab. On the bare soil, Bay of Islands, /. D, II. 



About 3 inches high, divided to the base ; branches beginning to spread about half an inch from the base, form- 

 ing a somewhat fastigiate, flagelliform mass, cylindrical, forked, elongated, acute and undivided at the apex.— A 

 much larger plant than the last, to which it is nearly allied ; unfortunately there are no notes as to colour. The 

 dried plant, like the last, is rufous and somewhat translucent above. 



4. Clavaria arborescens, Berk. ; sparsa, amethystina, gracilis, stipite tenui elongato simplici, ramis fur- 

 catis fastigiatis ultimis brevissimis acutis. 



Hab. On the ground, Wangarei and Bay of Islands (October), Colenso. 



About 2 inches high, scattered, elegant. Stem flexuose, simple, 1 inch high, slightly incrassated upwards, 

 spreading into a few forked branches, which bear a quantity of fastigiate ramuli, the ultimate divisions being ex- 

 tremely short and rather acute. This is clearly allied to the two foregoing, and like them can be referred to no 

 published species, though with the habit of C. macropus. The colours are evidently bright when fresh. A very 

 distinct form of this species occurs at the Bay of Islands, with a very different habit, nearly half an inch high, and 

 far more robust in proportion ; it is branched to the base, and is more compact. Without a series of specimens, it 

 is impossible to say which is the more typical. 



5. Clavaria flaccida, Pr. Syst. Myc. v. 1. p. 471. 

 Hab. On dead leaves, twigs, etc., Colenso. 



* Clavaria crispula, Br. Up. p. 576. 

 Hab. On rotten wood, Colenso. 



6. Clavaria Colensoi, Berk. ; parva, e basi compressa ramosa, ramis erectis furcatis subasqualibus api- 

 cibus acuminatis, fibrillis brevibus stupposis matrici affixa. 



Hab. On decayed wood, Colenso. 



About 1 inch high, attached to the soft decayed wood by a few short towy fibres, which, like the whole plant, 

 are brown when dry. Stem mostly compressed, branched from the base, or a little above it, repeatedly forked ; 

 branches subfastigiate, delicate ; apices forked, very acute. Closely allied to G. delicata, but the brown fibres by 

 which it is attached, and other points, forbid its association with that species, of which I have authentic specimens 

 from Fries. 



7. Clavaria inaqualis, Br. Syst. v. l.p. 481. 

 Hab. On the ground, Bay of Islands, Hooker. 



Gen. XXI. PISTILLABIA, Fries. 

 Clavata, e ceraceo rigens, contextu vesiculoso. 



Minute epiphytous Clavaria, from the smaller species of which genus they differ very slightly. (Name from 

 pistillum, in allusion to their form.) 



* Pistillaria ovata, Br. Up. p. 537. 



Hab. On dead stalks of herbaceous plants, Colenso, 



