Secotium.'] 
VIII. FUNGI. 
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A very small genus, found in various countries, one is European. An Australian one is 
edible. 
1. S. erythrocephalum, Tulasne ; — Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 187. Stem 
glabrous, white or reddish. Pileus globose, umbonate, plicate below, scarlet. 
— Tulasne in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. ii. 115, and iv. t. 9. f. 5-17. 
Northern and Middle Islands : common in grassy places, Raoul, etc. 
2. S. lilacensis, Berk. mss. Azure-blue. Stem short, pale, fibrous, 
pruinose. Pileus subglobose, lilac-coloured, spotted, y in. high. 
Middle Island : drift-wood, Buller river, Eaast. (Drawing only.) 
26. PAUROCOTYLIS, Berk. 
Globose. Peridium simple, thin, hard, rigid, consisting of compactly 
interwoven flocci ; nucleus formed of a floccose mass of loosely interwoven 
membranous bodies, enclosing flexuose sinuses. Spores large, pedicelled, 
seated ou the surface of the sinuses. 
A very singular monotypic Fungus. 
1. P. pila, Berk, in Fl.N. Z. ii. 188. t. 105./. 9. Crimson or globular, 
sessile, somewhat sinuated, contracted and waved 'when dry. Spores pale, 
tan-colour in mass, y/g-g- in. diam., endochrome with a globose nucleus. 
Northern. Island : on the ground, Tehawera, Colenso. (Only one specimen seen.) 
27. G-EASTER, Micheli. * 
Globose. Peridium double, persistent, the outer splitting from the base 
to the apex into longitudinal segments, which are spread out like a star, or 
are turned back, supporting the nucleus, which bursts by a terminal pore. 
A common genus of Puff-balls. 
1. G. fimbriatus, Fries ; — Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 188, Outer peridium 
multifid, expanded, flaccid, inner sessile ; mouth of nucleus indeterminate, 
fimbriate and pilose. — Berk. Outlines, 300. t. 20. f. 4. 
Northern Island : on the ground, Colenso. 
28. TRICHOSCYTALE, Corda. 
An erect cylindric Pungus. Outer peridium between woody and corky, 
rugose, at first globose and enclosing the inner, which is floccose, and bursts 
through it ; inner tubular, enveloping a cylindrical mass of vertical floccu- 
lent filaments mixed with spores. 
A most remarkable monotypic Fungus. 
1. T. paradoxa, Corda ; — Berk, in FI. N. Z. ii. 189. Sulphur- 
coloured, gregarious, about 1 in. high. — Tricliocoma paradoxum , Junghuhn 
Prsemissa, p. 9. 
Northern Island : Bay of Islands, on dead wood, J. D. H. (Himalaya, Java, Carolina.) 
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