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or break—requiring an axe; and while it grows to a tolerably large size, 
5-7 inches, flat, irregular, and overlapping (stratum super stratum), it is not 
very thick; evidently of slow growth, perennial and aged, of a bright 
yellow-brown colour, and somewhat resembling a slab or cake of ginger- 
bread. Owing to its excessive hardness, I could only with my knife secure 
a small portion as a specimen. On trunks of Fagus solandri, but not 
common ; dry hilly woods near Norsewood ; 1888: W.C. 
8. Hydnum alutaceum, Fr. 
A tawny prostrate effuse plant, growing in large patches on bark of 
trees ; woods, with No. 1; 1883: W.C. 
4. Irpex zonatus, B. and Br. 
A small tawny-orange semi-stipitate sub-flabellate fungus, often 
gregarious and imbricate, and sometimes prostrate and effuse (apparently 
2-8 vars.), growing among mosses and dead logs, same forests with - 
preceding (Nos. 8 and 1); 1888: W.C 
5. Stereum lugubris, sp. nov., Cooke. 
This is a most peculiar and elegant plant; pileus 1-3 inches broad, 
sessile, lateral, thin, rumpled, and zoned above with alternate grey and 
black bands, growing profusely and closely imbricated, sub-horizontal and 
pendulous—resembling small epaulettes,—a pretty sight. On dead trunk of 
Fagus solandri, in river bed (high and dry) near Norsewood; but though 
very plentiful there, only noticed on that one tree* ; 1883: W.C. 
6. Dictyonema eruginosa, Ag. 
A small effuse horizontal species, over-running mosses, etc., belonging 
to a curious and tropical genus, long considered to be an Alga. In woods, 
with Nos. 1 and 2; 1883: W.C 
7. Cyphella discoidea, Cooke. 
A small circular fungus adnate on rng rooted cat's-ear (Hypocheris 
radicata), in fields, Napier ; 1881-88: 
8. Clavaria acuta, Sow. 
A curious minute stipitate white clavate fungus, growing in little patches 
among Hepatice, but not common ; on earth, sides of shady cuttings near 
Norsewood; 1888: W.C. 
9. Tremella albida, Huds. 
A small erect white foliated gregarious fungus, gelatinous when kah; 
on rotten logs, in wet dark woods near Norsewood ; 1883 : W.C. 
10. Puccinia malvacearum, Corda. 
On leaves of mallow (Malva sylvestris), in my paddock, Napier ; 1881- 
88: W.C. Bonesci- eee 
* As this is a species nova, and possibly but little known here among us, I may re- 
mark that, in form and appearance, it is much like those sp. nov. of the same genus from 
Queensland, recently described by Berkeley and Broome in “Transactions Linn. 
London," 2nd series, Botany, and figured in tab. 46, vol. i., and in plate 14, vol. ii. 
