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slightly thickened upwards, spreading into a few forked brandies that bear 
fastigiate branchlets at their tips. 
Northern Island : Bay of Islands, on the ground, Colenso. 
5. C. flaccida, Fries ; — Bab. in FI. N. Z. 186. Slender, flaccid, ochra- 
ceous, much branched ; stem smooth ; branches crowded, unequal, con- 
verging, acute. — Berk. Outlines, 230. 
Northern Island : on dead leaves and twigs, Colenso. (Europe.) 
6. C. crispula. Fries ; — Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 186. Much branched, 
tan-coloured, then ochraceous ; stem slender, villous, rooting ; branches 
flexuous, multifid ; branchlets concolorous, divaricate.— Berk. Outlines, 281. 
Northern Island : on rotten wood, Colenso. (Europe.) 
7. C. Colensoi, Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 186. Small, 1 in. high, attached 
by towy fibres ; stem mostly compressed, branched from the base ; branches 
repeatedly forked to the apex, very acute, subfastigiate, delicate. 
Northern Island : on dead wood, Colenso. 
8. C. insequalis, Fries ; — Berlc. in FI. N. Z. ii. 186. Yellow, brittle, 
gregarious, sublasciculate ; stem simple, bearing numerous simple or forked 
clubs. — Berk. Outlines, 282. 
Northern Island : on the ground. Bay of Islands, J. D. H. (Europe, Tasmania.) 
21. PISTILLARIA, Fries. 
Club-shaped, erect Fungi, pink, waxy, becoming horny ; cellular internally. 
Hymenium even. 
A considerable genus, in all climates. 
1. P. ovata, Fries ; — FI. N. Z. ii. 186. Small, white, obovate, hollow ; 
stem very short, pellucid, sometimes lobed. 
Northern Island : on dead stems of herbaceous plants, Colenso. (Europe.) 
22. HIRNEOLA, Fries. 
Gelatinous, cup-shaped or ear-shaped Fungi, horny when dry, velvety ex- 
ternally. Hymenium often more or less wrinkled, even, without papillae. 
A small genus, found in various climates. 
1. H. auricula- Judse, Berk. Thin, concave, flexuous, at length 
black, veined and plaited externally and internally, tomentose beneath. — 
Berk. Outlines, 289. t. 18. f. 7. 
Northern Island : Auckland, Sinclair. (Cosmopolite.) 
2. H. polytricha, Mont. Subhemispherical, cup-shaped, expanded, 
lobed, densely villous externally with grey hairs, disk purplish-brown. — 
Mont. Sylloge, 181. 
Northern Island : Waikehi, in damp places, Milne. (East Indies, Java.) 
3. H. hispidula, Berk, in Ann. Nat. Hist. iii. 396. — Exidia, FI. N. Z. 
