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VIII. FUNGI. 
\Cyphella. 
1. C. densa. Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 184. Patches of numerous fascicled 
pendulous elongated fawn-coloured bodies, attached by a narrow apex. Pileus 
pruinose, pubescent above, the pubescence consisting of short obtuse flocci. 
Hymenium of the same colour, even. 
Northern Island : on live bark of Corynocarpus , Cape Kidnapper, Colenso. 
19. GUEPINIA, Fries. 
Pileus between cartilaginous and gelatinous, folded and twisted, swelling 
when moist. Hymenium distinct, inferior or at first superior, unchanged, 
persistent. 
Handsome tropical and temperate Fungi, intermediate between Tremellini and Auricu- 
larini. 
1. G. spathularia. Fries ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 185. Very delicate, gela- 
tinous, csespitose, suberect. Pileus dimidiate-spatliulate, and stem pubescent 
and glaucous. Hymenium orange-yellow, plaited. 
Northern Island : on logs of wood, Colenso. (N. America.) 
2. G. pezizaeformis, Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 185. Minute, bright 
orange-red. Stem short. Pileus lateral, externally and stem minutely 
velvety. Hymenium obliquely cup- shaped, slightly lobed, sparingly wrinkled 
and pitted within. Spores oblong, sometimes curved. 
Northern Island : Bay of Islands, on dead wood, J. I). IT. — Habit of a Peziza. (Aus- 
tralia, Tasmania.) 
20. CL AV ARIA, Linn. 
Herby, terete or clavate, simple or branched erect Fungi, without a dis- 
tinct stem. Hymenium dry. 
A vast temperate and tropical genus of Fungi, readily recognized by tbeir forming straight, 
fleshy, variously coloured, erect, finger-shaped bodies. 
1. C. lutea, Fittadini ; — Berk, in FI. iV. Z. ii. 185. Yellow. Stem 
thick, repeatedly divided above dichotomously, ultimate division acute, sub- 
fastigiate. 
Northern Island?, on the ground, Bidwilt. (Europe.) 
2. C. Pusio, Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 185. Stem If in. high, slender, 
thickened above, divided into a few acute cylindrical ascending branches about 
as long as the stem, and making an acute angle with each other ; branches 
rarely subdivided (rufous when dry). 
Northern Island: on the ground, Colenso. 
8. C. flagelliformis, Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 186. About 2 in. high, 
divided from the base ; branches forming a fastigiate flagelliform mass, elon- 
gate, acute, cylindric, forked ; tips undivided. 
Northern Island : Bay of Islands, on the ground, J. I). H. 
4. C. arborescens. Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 186. About 2 in. high, 
scattered, bright amethyst when fresh. Stem slender, 1 in. high, simple, 
