116 NOTES AND ADDITIONS TO THE FUNGUS FLOFJA. 



Gordyceps gracilis, Grev. A specimen of this has 

 recently been gathered on Mt. Nelson Range. Two 

 clubs emerged from a larva; stipes pale, about 1 cm., 

 bead oblong, yellow, about 4 mm. long. 



Mr. Olliff, once Government Entomologist of New 

 South Wales, renamed this as C. scotliafius, but there 

 was no apparent justification. As he also named a 

 form of G. rohertsU as new, under the name of G. 

 sclhirkii, and another as G. coxii, and further resusci- 

 tated a plate of G. taylori, Berh., which had appeared 

 in Hooker's Journ. Bot. N.S., Vol. II., 1843, and made 

 it the type of a new species, ixnder the name G. 

 trictence, his suggested new species have not been 

 generally accepted . 



Gordyceps rohertsU, Hook. The well known Veget- 

 able Caterpillar of New Zealand has been recently 

 gathered in a gully at the foot of Mt. Wellington. It 

 13 easy to overlook this, and probably diligeut search 

 will bring more to light. 



Gystopus tragopogonis, Schr. Occurs on many 

 different Composites, but is particularly abundant on 

 the leaves of Lagenophorii ernphyRopus^ forming con- 

 spicuous white patches. 



Amongst the Incompletse, the following interest- 

 ing forms may be recorded : — 



Dendrodochium molle, n.s. Subglobose from a 



broad base, 2-4 mm. diam., soft wa.xy-gelatinous, dull 

 white. Conidiophores verticillate, conidia single, ter- 

 minating long slender branches, 5 x 4- jj.. 



Common on dead wood, collapsing when dry into 

 a flait scale. 



Verticillium lateritium. Berk., forming broadly 

 effused velvety orange-red or vermilion coloured 

 patches. Sporophores erect, verticillately branched, 

 conidia elliptic, red, 4-6 x 3 /"■ 



Common on dead vegetable substances. 



Stilbum, erythrocepnalum, I)itm. Stem thick, to- 

 mentose, whitish, terminating in a turbinato-globose. 

 rosy or deep red head; conidia elliptical, 4-6 x 2-2.3, 

 hyaline, borne on slender septate, colourless conidio- 

 phores that are nodulose at the apex, 50-60 x 3-3.5 [t. 

 (Massee). 



On rabbit's dung. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXVI. 



SPBAGUEOLA MUCIDA. n.s. 



.1. Tu!)er x 10. 2. Section. 3. Ascne and Paraph.ysi.s, Spore. 



