PzrRIE.—On new Species of New Zealand Plants. 269 
trees, bristly, black, horizontal, 1-14 inches long, of dense bushy growth, 
perennial, bearing moniliform fruit. Woods near Norsewood, also near 
Matamau; 1888: W.C. 
20. Hemiarcyria serpula, Rtfi. 
This is a most eurious small fungus; a substance that, at first sight, 
might well be taken for some small smooth worm, coiled up and hybernating ; 
it is orange-coloured, smooth, vermicular (in size, like small pieces of 
vermicelli, or coloured silk cord), soft and tender, so as to make it difficult 
to preserve a good specimen. Found under large foliaceous lichens (Sticta), 
on rotten logs, dry elevated woods near Norsewood ; (but scarce); 1888: 
21. Chroolepus aureum, Ag. 
A curious small reddish woolly convex and spreading fungus, forming 
little cushions, adnate on lichen (Thelotrema) on bark of living Dacrydium 
cupressinum ; forest between Matamau and Danneverke, Waipawa County ; 
1883: W.C. (N.B.—The colour changes to light green in drying and 
keeping.) 
The following more or less rare Fungi (but already collected in New 
Zealand, see ** Handbook of the New Zealand Flora’’), were also in the lot, 
viz. :— 
Polyporus australis, Fr. 
Thelephora pedicellata, Schw. 
Stereum lobatum, Kze. 
Guepinia spathularia, Fr. 
Secotium erythrocephalum, Tul, 
Arr. XXIX.— Description of new Species of Native Plants. 
D. Pere, M.A. 
(Read before the Otago Institute, 11th November, 1884.] 
Coprosma rubra, n. sp. 
A raxLy or densely branched shrub, 4-10 feet high; branches slender divari- 
cating, marked by numerous transverse rings; bark of younger branches 
reddish-brown, smooth ; the ultimate twigs pubescent. 
Leaves variable in size, 4-4 inch long, 4-4 inch wide, rounded-oblong, 
acute, thin, pale below, veins and retieulations evident, narrowed into a 
rather long flat glabrous petiole, 
Stipules minute. 
