Fungi.~\ 



PLOKA OF NEW ZEALAND. 



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Gen. LIV. SEPEDONIUM, Ik. 



Flood teneri. Sports apicales magna;, globosse. Mucedines fungis putrescentibus enate. 



The fleshy Fungi, especially Boleti, are often destroyed by the species of this genus, their substance being 

 completely traversed by the mycelium, which produces myriads of spores externally. The mycelium is extremely 

 abundant, and sometimes forms a sort of floccose veil to the mass of fruit. (Name from cnpropu, to corrupt; in 

 allusion to their place of growth.) 



1. Sepedoniurn chrysospermum, IV. Syst. Myc. v. 3. p. 438. 



Hab. On a decayed Boletus, Bay of Islands, J. D. H. 



The Boletus is in so bad a condition, in consequence of the ravages of the parasite, that I cannot determine it. 

 The spores are short, and indicate the group to which B. bovinus belongs ; but while in that species they do not exceed 

 tsW> in tnis they are about -j-J^ of an inch long. 



Gen. LYI. GEOGLOSSUM, Pers. 



Camosurn, simplex, clavasforme, stipitatum. Hymenium clavam ambiens. Asci elongati. 



Fungi with the habit of the simple Clavarim, or rather of some species of Hypoxylon. They are in fact inverted 

 Pezka, with the under surface of the cup entirely obliterated. They are, altogether, plants of mild regions, as far 

 as is at present known. (Name from yr], the earth, and ykwvo-q, a tongue.) 



1. Geoglossum hirsutum, Pers. 



Hab. On the ground, Colenso. 



Gen. LVI. PEZIZA, Dill. 



Receptaculum carnosum vel subcarnosum, marginatum, cupulseforme, primo subclausum, mox expan- 

 sum. Hymenium persistens. Asci ampli, distincti, fixi, sporas elastice ejiciendas includentes, paraphysi- 

 bus immixtis. 



A vast genus, occurring in every sort of situation and in every climate, but more especially in temperate regions. 

 The cup-shaped receptacle, which is of a more or less fleshy nature, makes them in general easily recognized. Cyplella 

 is known by its naked spores. Other Fungi of similar habit, but approaching Lichens and Splicerice, are comprised 

 in separate genera. (Name from Pezica, a term used by Pliny for stemless Fungi.) 



1. Peziza mittina, Berk.; cupula applanata coccinea margine tantum subtus pallidiore libera, ascis 

 linearibus, sporidiis globosis. 



Hab. On the bare ground, amongst moss, on hills, Hawke's Bay, Colenso. 



Cup depressed, expanded, | of an inch or more across, rather irregular, crimson, fixed to the soil by the whole 

 under surface, with the exception of the margin, which is paler beneath. Asci linear; sporidia globose, 1? * 50 of an 

 inch in diameter ; nucleus single.— Eesembling in general habit and colour P. rutilans, but that has elliptic sporidia, 

 with two nuclei, unless indeed the little orange Peziza, which is so common on mud walls, be confounded with that 

 species. The spores are larger than in the closely allied P. endocarpoides. P. sphceroplea, Berk, et Curt., has similar 

 spores, but evidently differs in its articulate flocci. 



2. Peziza endocarpoides, Berk. ; cupula irregulari concava vel demum convexa expansa spadicea sessili, 

 sporidiis globosis. (Tab. CV. Eig. 8.) 



Hab. On the ground amongst moss and fern, Mission Station, Colenso. 



Cup i of an inch across, sessile, but fixed by a central floccose mass, with the margin free, concave, but at 

 length convex and expanded, so as to resemble a little Endocarpon, obscurely floccose externally. Asci cylindrical, 



