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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 ; 1883 : W.C. 



3. 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 

 2-3 vars.), growing among mosses and dead logs, same forests with the 

 preceding (Nos. 3 and 1) ; 1883 : 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 ceruginosa, Ag. 



A small effuse horizontal species, over-running mosses, etc., belonging 

 to a curious and tropical genus, long considered to be ah Alga. In woods, 

 with Nos. 1 and 2 ; 1883 : W.C. 



7. Cyphella discoidea, Cooke. 



A small circular fungus adnate on long-rooted cat's-ear (HypochcBris 

 radicata), in fields, Napier ; 1881-83 : W.C. 



8. Clavaria acuta, Sow. 



A curious minute stipitate white clavate fungus, growing in little patches 

 among Hepaticce, but not common ; on earth, sides of shady cuttings near 

 Norsewood; 1883: W.C. 



9. Tremella albida, Huds. 



A small erect white foliated gregarious fungus, gelatinous when fresh ; 

 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- 

 83: W.C. 



* 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. Soc. 

 London," 2nd series, Botany, and figured in tab. 46, vol. i., and in plate 14, vol. ii. 



