NEW ZEALAND DESMIDIEAC. 
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nor those appertaining to Scenedesmus and Pediastrum, belong, 
however, to the Desmidiese. 
Doubtless a more prolonged search in the New Zealand localities 
will eventually add many accessions to the list already enumerated 
by the author in his interesting communication. He mentions 
that few zygospores (upon the characters and specialities of which 
sometimes a good deal depends) have met his observation ; as the 
climate of New Zealand so much on the whole resembles our own, 
it is probable that the conjugating period may be at the corres- 
ponding season of the year to that with us — that is in the spring 
and early summer — during which the majority of zygospores are 
met with, although one may alight on an isolated case of conjuga- 
tion in one or other species at different times of the year. There 
are, however, very many forms, and indeed the greater number, 
never yet seen conjugated by any observer ; and, again, amongst 
the species whose zygospores are known, it is not unfrequently the 
case that the most common and widely diffused forms are those 
most rarely found conjugated. 
FUNGI MACOWANIANI AND AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 
The publication in continuation of these two enumerations is 
unavoidably postponed on account of the illness of the Editor. 
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