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252 NOTES ON SOME COMPOSITE OF OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND.
neath a railway bridge." It was also fouud by Dr. Bull under a
railway bridge at Leeds about a mile out on the Harrogate line.
Some of the specimens sent on to me were very fine, exactly resem-
bling Sowerby's figure (Eng. Fungi, t. 382), with curious abortive
plants growing at the base ; spores pale yellow, larger than the last.
Since the above lines were printed it has come up in the greatest
abundance through brick earth, from railway sleepers, at the Kentish
Town mouth of the Hampstead Heath tunnel of the North London
Railway. I saw it from the carriage window, on August 9, as the
train stopped at the Hampstead Heath station, so I got out and. rilled
a large box with it. It was also found at Street, Somerset, habitat
not stated.
Boletus variegatus, Fr. Fordingbridge, Hants, October, 1868.
New Forest, near Lyndhurst, October, 1868. Mr. Broome.
B. (Bstivalis, Fr. Always common about Staplehurst, Kent, in the
early summer.
B. viscidus, Fr. Common in same district in the autumn.
Hydnum gelatinosum, Scop. Fir trunk, Fordingbridge, Hants.
Mr. J. A. Clark.
Sparassk crispa, Fr. Border of a fir wood near Fordingbridge,
Hants. Mr. J. A. Clark.
Clavariafumosa,!^. Always in the autumn about Long Sutton, Hants.
Explanation^ of Plate XCV.—Figs. 1 and 2, Agarieus (Tricholomaj
brevipes, Bull. Fig. 3, section of ditto. Fig. 4, spores enlarged 700
diam. Figs. 5 and 6, A. (FlammulaJ decipiens, n. sp. Fig. 7, section of ditto.
Fig. 8, spores enlarged 700 diam.
NOTES ON SOME COMPOSIT^E OF OTAGO, NEW
ZEALAND.
By W. Lauder Lindsay, M.D., F.R.S.E., F.L.S.
Some of the Otago Composite are handsome trees or shrubs, with
abundant foliage and flower : and, especially under cultivation, most
ornamental ; decided acquisitions, therefore, to the shrubberies and
garden^ of settlers, and worthy of extensive introduction into Britain.
Moreover the stem occasionally attains such dimensions that the timber
becomes valuable, especially from the beauty of its markings, in cabinet-
work. Some alpine or sul)alpine species of such genera as Raoulia,