Colenso. — On Fungi recently discovered in New Zealand. 265 



forwarding larger and better specimens to Dr. Knight, and on his re- 

 examination of them, he found the plant to be identical with the species 

 named by Nylander (supra), which Lichen Dr. Knight had himself sent in 

 1868 from New Zealand to Nylander, and it was published by him in the 

 " Flora," No. 5, 1869 (a French serial). Notwithstanding, from that work 

 being so little known here (Dr. Knight, the original publisher of the plant, 

 not having republished it), and the plant itself so fine and rare and new 

 to us — with, also, some differences as to size, etc., between Dr. Nylander's 

 and my own measurements and descriptions — I bring it now forward, 

 together with Dr. Nylander's description, kindly transcribed for me by Dr. 

 Knight, from the foreign botanical work above-mentioned. 



ii Sphcerophoron stereocauluides. Thallus ei pallidus v. albidus, dendroideo- 

 ramosus, teres, (altit. 10-12 centimetrorum et trunco primario basi crassit. 

 circiter 2 mm.) cortice sat conferte transversim supra diffracto, ramis et 

 ramulis fibrillis teretibus, divisis vel ramosis conferte minutis ; apothecia 

 in receptaculis subglobosis inclusa ; sporae globosaB vel subglobos®, diam. 

 O008 ad 0"01 mm. Legit Dr. Knight.''' 



Order VIII. FUNGI. 

 Genus 69. Xylaria, Fries. 

 1. Xylaria polytricha, sp. nov. 



Sub-succulent, fleshy, black and densely hairy ; hairs rigid, patent. 

 Stem 1 inch long, cylindrical, rather stout. Eeceptacle obovate, and 

 spathulate, 6-7 lines long, 3-4 lines broad, thickish, margins sinuate above, 

 tip obtuse, deeply and broadly grooved on one side, obtusely keeled on the 

 other : some specimens are shortly 2-lobed at top, lobes cylindrical, tips 

 round ; others have a small obovate and sessile head, or lobe, springing 

 laterally from stroma low down ; perithecia not visible ; hairs (sub lente) 

 brown-black, lanceolate, twisted, acute. 



Hab. On the earth among mosses, etc., at Glenross, near Napier; 

 1884 : Mr. D. P. Balfour. 



Obs. A species having affinity with X. castorea, Berk., originally dis- 

 covered in forests in this same locality ; and also with a few of Montague's 

 South American species. 



Art. XXVIII. — A List of Fungi recently discovered in New Zealand. 



By W. Colenso, F.L.S. 



[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 1st October, 1884.] 



Last year (1883) I detected several peculiar and interesting Fungi in the 



woods and glens of the Seventy-mile Bush, Waipawa County, that were 



new to me ; these, with a few others already known but rare, I exhibited at 



