268 Transactions. — Botany. 



11. Tilmadoche nutans, Pers. 



A curious minute simple stipitate fungus bearing a globular head of 

 perithecia, having a greyish semi-metallic appearance when fresh and before 

 bursting ; growing in small patches among Hepatica, 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. 



13. Fusisporium miniatum, B. & C. 



A minute cinnabar-red fungus, sessile, gregarious in round dots, on dead 

 logs of Fagus solandri, in river-bed near Norsewood ; 1883 : W.C. 



14. Peziza (Hymenoscypha) scutula, P. 



A minute stipitate fungus, parasitical on leaf of Knightia excelsa ; wet 

 woods with No. 9 ; (apparently very scarce) ; 1883 : W.C. 



15. Solenia Candida, Fr. 



A peculiar looking small horizontal effuse scurfy whitish fungus, full of 

 transverse fissures, spreading on rotten logs ; woods, with preceding ; 

 1883: W.C. 



16. Xylaria ftliformis, 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 fiexuose (like 

 stout hairs), bearing large moniliform perithecia : originally found on west 

 flank of Euahine 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. Spli&rostilbe 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, dry hilly woods near Norsewood ; • 

 (only one large patch noticed) ; 1883 : W.C. 



19. Antennaria scoriadea, B. 



This peculiar fungus assumes two forms : — 1. When young, spreading in 

 long dark ribbon-like lines over mosses, etc., as if laid on with a brush ; 

 very plain when wet but scarcely visible when dry : 2. On bark of living 



