Petbie.' — On new Species of New Zealand Plants. 269 



trees, bristly, black, horizontal, l-li inches long, of dense bushy growth, 

 perennial, bearing moniliforrri fruit. Woods near Norsewood, also near 

 Matamau; 1883: W.G. 



20. Hemiarcyria serpula, Etfi. 



This is a most curious 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 (Stictce), 

 on rotten logs, dry elevated woods near Norsewood ; (but scarce) ; 1883 : 

 W.C. 



21. Chroolepus aureitm, 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 eryihrocephalum, Tul. 



Art. XXIX. — Description of new Species of Native Plants. 

 By D. Petrie, M.A. 

 [Read before the Otago Institute, 11th November, 1884.] 

 Coprosma rubra, n. sp. 

 A laxly 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 hi size, J— f inch long, |— J inch wide, rounded-oblong, 

 acute, thin, pale below, veins and reticulations evident, narrowed into a 

 rather long flat glabrous petiole, 

 Stipules minute, 



