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MYCETOZOA FROM NEW ZEALAND. 
By A. anp G. Lister. 
We have been favoured with the following Eraphie. notes by 
Miss Hibbert-Ware on the Mycetozoa collected by her in New 
gealna gre her three months’ visit to the islands al January 
to Mar 
“* Ceratiomyxa mucida was the first species I found, in Ross’ 8 
Creek, a beautiful remnant of ancient Bush near Dunedin, It 
abounded both there and in Stewart Island. 
** The ubiquitous species of the country is a Trichia ver rucosa. It 
occurred invariably, even off the coast of Stewart Island, on the 
tiny islets, so densely covered with Bush that we could with - 
go to mould. But at New Plymouth we came across it on tree- 
stumps, exposed at the edge ofa hill. Trichia Botrytis var. aatciag 
is almost equally abundant, and occurs under very similar ¢ 
stances to the last species. 
‘“‘The genus Stemonitis ranks also among the very first in 
abundance. We found 8S. oi teicace in Stewart Island, and S. ae 
almost everywhere along the Bush tracks. But we searched in 
vain for them or any other .. on the trunks of the tree- 
ferns, which lie in all stages of decay on the floor of the Bus 
“‘T found the new species, Physarum dictyosporum, in the dim 
Bane of the thick Bush of Stewart Island. Here the tree-fern, 
son-flowered ‘rata’ (Metrosideros), i eg &e., with the 
thick t undergrowth of moss, fern, and lichen, form a pe erfect j jungle. 
The supple- sack liane ( Rhipogonum scandens) spreads from tree to 
tree and hangs down in rope-like festoons, constantly tripping up. 
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box. I fear that much of P. dictyosporum I had gathered may have 
been left behind during my six or eight falls on this occasion, when 
ye rene so rion rewarded for venturing beyond the beaten track. 
as also on this expedition only that we found Physarum viride 
ne Cribr aria a 
‘There seemed to be very few species which form their 
sporangia on ‘fallen leaves. Diachea se ag covered a large tract, 
chiefly of fuchsia Pi fone ae: the few deciduous trees of the 
