tudinally septate basidia" nor have I ever received it from any cor- 

 ndent excepting Mr. Ames. Both Miss Wakefield, at Kew, and 

 Rev Bourdot to whom I sent specimens, concur in the opinion that 

 it should be classed as a Sebacina. Rev. Bourdot kindly prepared 

 the fieur- (813) of the basidial structure. 



In a recent letter, Mr. F. H. Ames gives an additional account of 

 it He states: "It grew in the grass on moss and presented a light, 

 frothv appearance. The most of it was in an old road or path that 

 had not been traveled for a long time and in rather thin, but moist 

 woods The weather was quite wet, or had been just previously. 1 he 

 color when fresh was white with a yellowish color in the hymenium 

 In drying it turned darker and took on a brownish hue. \\hen Iresn 

 it had a very perceptible odor of slippery elm." 



CYTTARIA GUNNII (FIG. 814), FROM R. G. ROBIXSOX, 

 NEW ZEALAND. The genus Cyttaria occurs only in the Southern 

 Hemisphere. Originally it came from Terra del Fuego and Darwin 

 gave an extended' notice of it. It occurs abundantly and is used as 



Fig. 814. 



Cyttaria Gunnii. 



food by the natives of that country, but I think those poor devils 

 would eat most anything. It always grows on the branches of the 

 native beech. Six species are named, five of them from South America. 

 Cyttaria Gunnii is the only species in Australasia, and there I believe 

 only in Tasmania and New Zealand. It grows on Nothofagus Men- 

 ziesii. The South American species are solid and described mostly 

 as deep yellow or orange. Cyttaria Gunnii is hollow and the dried 

 specimen is white; slightly yellow when moistened. The spores are 

 incorrectly given and figured in Cooke's account as ellipsoid. They 

 are perfectly globose, measure 10-12 mic. smooth, hyaline, and are 

 filled with granular matter. The base of the plant is smooth, and 

 sterile, usually small, but in some specimens (as one photographed) 

 the smooth portion is over one third the fruit. The honeycombed 

 portion is the fertile portion, bearing the spores in asci lining the 

 pores. The asci are soon absorbed and not found in the old speci- 

 mens. This is the fourth collection I have of Cyttaria Gunnii, all 

 from New Zealand. 



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