268 Transactions.— Botany. 
11. Tilmadoche nutans, Pers. 
A curious minute simple stipitate fungus bearing a globular head of 
perithecia, having a greyish semi-metallie appearance when fresh and before 
bursting; growing in small patches among Hepatice, etc., on rotten logs, 
open skirts of woods near Norsewood ; 1882: W.C. Glenross; 1883: Mr. 
D. P. Balfour. 
12. Aspergillus glaucus, Lk. 
On fruit of black currant (Ribes nigrum); gardens, Waipukurau ; 1882- 
83: W.C. 
18. Fusisporium miniatum, B. & C. 
À minute cinnabar-red fungus, sessile, gregarious in round dots, on dead 
logs of Fagus solandri, in river-bed near Norsewood ; 1888: W.C. 
14. Peziza (Hymenoscypha) scutula, P. 
A minute stipitate fungus, parasitical on leaf of pene excelsa ; wet 
woods with No. 9; (apparently very scarce); 1888: 
15. Solenia candida, Fr. 
A peculiar looking small horizontal effuse scurfy whitish fungus, full of 
transverse fissures, spreading on rotten logs; woods, with preceding ; 
1888: W.C. 
16. Xylaria filiformis, Fr. 
An extraordinary plant! at first horizontal, of effuse pink or pink-red 
hyssoid growth, and forming vermicular-like markings, adhering closely to 
dead leaves (matrix); afterwards erect long wiry black and flexuose (like 
stout hairs), bearing large moniliform perithecia: originally found on west 
flank of Ruahine mountain range, emerging from dead leaves of Coriaria 
ruscifolia, but barren ; 1850: W.C.: and in fruit at Glenross ; 1883: Mr. 
D. P. Balfour. 
17. Spherostilbe cinnabarina, Tul. 
A minute orange-red circular and convex sessile fungus, found growing 
gregariously in little scattered masses about roots of living trees, woods 
near Norsewood ; a curious and elegant plant; 1883: W.C. 
18. Valsa (Fuckelia) turgida, Fr. 
A peculiar looking large prostrate spreading whitish fungus, the stroma 
(resembling the crustaceous thallus of a lichen of the Graphidei tribe) having 
scattered dark-umber linear perithecia, 1-2 lines long, erumpent and 
bursting ; on the bark of a dead tree, ve hilly woods near Norsewood; 
(only one large patch noticed); 1888: 
19. Antennaria scoriadea, B. 
This peculiar fungus assumes two forms :—1. When young, spreading in 
long dark ribbon-like lines over mosses, ete., as if laid on with a brush; 
very plain when wet but scarcely visible when dry: 2, On bark of living 
