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On dead Eucalyptus wood, Rodway, 504. 
The masses of spores are buried in the substance of the wood or 
bark, and ooze out in bright orange, variously contorted, ipea 
tendrils, which become rigid and brittle when dry. Indistinguish- 
able from Libertella faginea, pesa to the naked eye, but readily 
distinguished under the micro cope ‘by the much smaller, almost 
or sometimes quite straight ves 
€ chalybea Deis (sp. nov.) Per ithecia dense 
gregaria, suberumpentia, subrotunda, levia, astoma, nigra, circiter 
05 mm. diam., contexta distincte parenchy matica chalybeo- 
purpurea. Bas sidia filiformia. Sporule oblongo-cylindracee, 
we subattenuate, 24-28 x 7-9 yq, rect» curvuleve, 1-3- 
septate 
On dead bark of Bucal yptus. Rodway, 440, 
Distinguished by the large, aggregated perithecia, large celled 
parenchyma of a clear, intense blue or purplish-blue colour, and 
the large 3-septate spores. May possibly prove to be m Py ye 
condition of an ascigerous fungus belonging to 
Gibberella. 
MYXOGASTRES. 
Trichia fragilis, ebd "Mate Myce. (1875) p. 2 
On dead bark, Rodway, 4 
New ZEALAND. 
Specimens communicated by the Rev. William Colenso, F.R.S., 
Napier, New Zealand, 
BASIDIOMYCETES. 
Marasmius iii nu Massee (sp. nov.). Pileus coriaceo-mem- 
branaceus, conico-convexus, demum explanatus, late umbonatus, 
glaber, levis, door is us, margine primitus incurvo, 05-1 cm. 
latus. Lamelle in juventute sat confert», tandem subdistantes, 
initio alb», dein flavee, uiing rotundate. Spore ellipsoidex 
bo-flavi die, 5x 3p. Stipes wqualis, levis vel subtiliter striatus, 
eem 1-1:5 em Mm ongus, 2 mm. crassus, pileo concolor. 
regarious, on a rotten log, Colenso, 14 
; MeL: part of the piast has a yellow tinge, and when soaked in 
€ Spirit, gives out a yellow colouring matter. Allied in 
me Berne to M. CM. ugineus, Berk., but differing i in the even 
Silens and crowde 
Hypholoma eared Massee (sp. nov.). Pilews carnosus, con- 
vexo-planus, discoideus, sepe subgibbosus, albo-luteus, disco cas- 
taneus, squamis sehen dee appressis concoloribus, priecipue 
gl 
in juventute elegant variegatus, state glabrescens, visci us, 
4-9 cm. latus. odeli» adnatæ, confertæ, flavo-viridescentes, acie 
subcrenulate. Spore oblongo-elliptice, utrinque obtuse, viridi- 
fusce, 7-8 x 4-5 p. Stipes farctus, dein cavus, het i 
flavus. 
In clusters on logs, Dannevirke, Colenso, 1507. 
