338 



STJPPLEMENTUM ELORiE NOV^-ZELANDLiE. 



FESTUCACEJ3. 



15. Poa Tiypopsila, Steud., p. 263 = P. imbecilla, Forst, ? 



16. Eragrostis eximia, Steud., p. 279- 



HoBDEACEiE. 



17. Triticurn Solandri, Steud., p. 347 = T. scabrum, Br. 



VOLUME II. 



(Page 3.) In the foot-note, line 5, for Analepis read Artkropteris. 



(Page 6.) Gleichewa, jlabellata, Br. 

 Exclude the synonym Lab. Sert. Aust. Caled. 



(Page 39.) The Plate LXXX. of Nephrodium velutinum is accidentally lettered N. molle. 



(Page 48.) Todea Africana, Willd. 



Colonel Bolton has informed me that this plant was found at the north extreme of the Island, where it occurred 

 abundantly, and not, as was supposed, at Auckland. This fact is quite in accordance with what we know of the dis- 

 tribution of New Zealand plants, there being several warm-country forms confined to the north extreme, as Cassyiha 

 and Brosera pygmcea. 



Nat. Ord. Fungi. 



Cordyceps Sinclairii, Berkeley ; lutescens, stipite simplici 1. fnrcato sursum in ramos plarimos snb- 

 simplices lobatosve cylindricos diviso. 



Hab. Northern Island ; on the larva; of some Orthopterous insect, amongst loose gravelly soil, in 

 the garden of Archdeacon Williams, Tauranga, Poverty Bay. 



Yellowish, from f-1 inch high. Stems cylindrical, slender, simple or forked, sometimes confluent, A inch or 

 more high, divided above into numerous, more or less cylindrical, either simple or slightly-lobed heads, which are 

 sometimes disposed into a flabelliform mass, clothed with innumerable oblong conidia -g^Vo of an inch long. 



The specimens are unfortunately destitute of perithecia. The pale yellowish tint, inclining to lemon-colour, 

 seems characteristic, and forbids, in the first instance, their union with Cordyceps sobolifera, a West Indian species, 

 which also occurs on Orthopterous larva?. In that species, however, the normal form seems to be simply clavate 

 as in Cordyceps entomorrhiza, and the divisions are merely proliferous. There does not seem, in the present case, to 

 be any indication of such a primitive form, and, in consequence, I suppose the head to be essentially divided, as in 

 Cordyceps Taylori. I have therefore no hesitation in considering it as new, more especially as the West Indian 

 species is a purely tropical form, and does not ascend as far as the Southern United States, which produce some 

 New Zealand species, but is represented by an allied form still normally simple on the larvae of cockchafers. 



