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Genus 39. Anthoceros, Micheli. 
Anthoceros muscotdes, sp. NOY. 
Plant forming small dense moss-like patches, often circular, 2-3 inches 
diameter ; light-green above, whitish-green below possessing there a 
blanched appearance ; branchlets or fronds all erect, very compact and crisp, 
4 inch high, narrow below, very much dilated above, much laciniate and 
jagged at margins, each branchlet usually incurved sub-cyathiform with in- 
voluere arising from the central lacinia, sometimes two on a branchlet ; 
involucre cylindric, margin of mouth slightly scarious and slightly erose ; 
capsules numerous, 2-2} inches long, at first erect acute and coloured green, 
brown at tips, black flaccid and drooping when mature; valves 13 inches 
long, obtuse; columella exceedingly filiform, and, with spores, black; gemma 
circular, scattered, immersed in substance of frond ; rootlets numerous, fine 
light brown. 
Hab. On damp shady sides of cuttings in white indurated clay hills, 
road, Seventy-mile Bush, Waipawa County, 1883 : W.C. 
Obs.—A well-defined and truly elegant little species. 
Orper VII. LICHENES. 
Genus b. Spherophoron, Pers. 
Spharophoron polycarpum, sp. nov. 
Thallus foliaceous attached at base, sub-erect, branched, effuse, under 
1 inch high, loosely imbricate in growth like large irregular scales, light 
green above white below, branches and lobes broad dilated or narrow, 
laciniate and crenately toothed. Apothecia at the edges of lacinie or teeth, 
or sub-marginal below, many (8-00) on a frond, circular, light brown at 
first, with a narrow flat thalline border, afterwards black and hemi- 
spherical, becoming oblong and sub-confluent in age, capitulum girt by a 
narrow entire rim. 
Hab. On trunks of aged Fagus trees in large patches, projecting hori- 
zontally, sub-alpine forests Ruahine mountain range, 1846-1852 ; always 
barren ; but near Norsewood, bearing fruit plentifully, 1883 : W.C. 
Orper VIII. FUNGI 
Genus 10. Polyporus, Fries. 
Polyporus (Mesopus) nivicolor, sp. nov. 
Plant glabrous, wholly pure white including stem, shortly pendulous, 
growing closely together, sometimes 3 or more springing from the same 
root and subimbricate. Pileus fleshy, thickest in centre thin at edges, sub- 
orbicular, oblong or reniform, 1-14 inches diameter, concave and subcup- 
shaped below, convex and obsoletely zoned and veined above, margin 
distinct, delicately thin, irregularly but neatly crenate and subincised, 
revolute; stem a continuation of pileus, short, thick, obconical, nearly 
central ; pores rather large, subrotund and angular. 
