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FUNGI OF NEW ZEALAND. 
clavate tetrasporous, sterigmata slender, elongated ; spores elliptic- 
oblong, smooth, bright rusty-orange, 18-20x7-8 /x. 
On the ground. New Zealand. (Colenso,722 b) ; (Kirk, 337.) 
Peridium 3x2 c.m., stem below basal margin of peridium, 
*5 c.m. long. 
Resembling S. acuminatum in shape, but smaller, and differing 
in colour, polished peridium, and more especially in the spores. 
A portion of the type specimen of A. acuminatus sent by Montagne 
to Berkeley has pale olive, broadly elliptical spores measuring 
5-6 x 4 /X. 
Uredo inflata, Cooke. 
Amphigena. Soris irregularibus, bullatis, din tectis (2 mm. 
long), pallidis. Uredosporis subglobosis, laevibus (18x14 /x ). 
hyalinis, vix tinctis (siccis) episporio crassis, pedicello brevi. 
On living leaves of Ligusticum latifolium. Campbell Island, 
New Zealand. (Kirk, 346.) 
Uredo Oleariae, Cke. 
Hypophylla. Maculis nullis. Soris subrotundatis, subgregariis, 
mox apertis, pulverulentibus, aureo-fuscis (1 m.m. diam.). Uredo- 
sporis globoso-ovatis, laevibus, pallido flavidis (22 x 15 f), breviter 
pedicellatis. 
On living leaves of Olearia Jjyallii. Port Ross, New Zealand. 
(Kirk, 374.) 
Diatrype elliptica, Cooke fy Mass. 
Stromatibus ellipticis (7 x 2^-3 m.m.), atris, opacis, rugulosis. 
Ostiolis inconspicuis, matrici basi insculptis, lineo nigro in matrici 
profunde circumscriptis, contextu pallidis ; peritheciis magnis, 
paucis, ascis cylindraceis, stipitatis, octosporis. Sporidiis linearibus, 
rectis vel curvulis, utrinque rotundatis, uniseriatis, 12x5 /x hyalinis. 
( >n decorticated branches. Hawkes’ Bay, New Zealand. (T. 
Kirk , 367.) 
Rhytisma (Cocconia) discoidea, Cke. Sf Mass. 
Orbicularis, convexa (1-1^ m.m. diam.) atra, glabra, subnitida, 
intus olivacea. Ascis clavatis, subsessilibus, octosporis, sporidiis 
oblongis, uniseptatis, medio leniter constrictis, dilute olivaceis, 
22 x 5 fx. 
On leaves of Veronica elliptica. New Zealand. (Kirk, 338.) 
Erinella hyalopoda, Cke. S[ Mass. 
Stipitata, gregaria vel sparsa, alba. Cupula cyathiformia, 
(1-1^ m.m. high, \ m.m. broad), tenui, pilis deciduis brevibus, 
flaccidis ornata, stipite gracili, elongato, hyalino, ad basim incras- 
sato, saepe sursum furcato. Ascis cylindraceo-clavatis (150 x 10 /x). 
Sporidiis inordinatis, bacillaribus, multinucleatis (35 x 2-3 /x) 
paraphysibus sursum acutis. 
On dead Phormium. New Zealand. (T. Kirk , 340.) 
Zsaria aggregata, Cke. Sf Mass. 
Caespitosa, stromatibus basi incrassatis, confluentibus, sursum 
subacutis, simplicibus, rarissime furcatis, subinde compressis 
