SCROPHULARIACEAE. Hebe salicifolia: Taranaki, Mt. Egmont, 1,350 m, type collection, P.D.D. herbarium, No. 11167.

Pilei annual, scattered, membranous-coriaceous, cupulate, 1-2.5 mm diameter, attached by narrow bases; exterior bay, tan, or ferruginous, finely radiately striate, often splitting on the posterior side, usually naked, rarely with a few scattered hairs; margin acute, slightly inturned, entire or with one or two deep incisions; hymenial surface concave, even, pallid cream. Context white, save for a few tinted hyphae near the periphery, to 80 µ thick, of radiately arranged densely compacted parallel hyphae; generative hyphae 4-5 µ diameter, walls to 2 µ thick, hyaline. Hymenial layer to 40 µ deep, a close palisade of basidia and paraphyses. Basidia subclavate, 35-42 x 10-12 µ, bearing 4 spores, sterigmata arcuate, slender, to 6 µ long. Paraphyses subclavate, 28-36 x 6-8 µ. Spores elliptic-fusiform, a few suballantoid, ends bluntly acuminate, apiculate, 12-13 x 4-5 µ, walls smooth, hyaline, 0.2 µ thick.

TYPE LOCALITY: Mt. Egmont, Taranaki, New Zealand.
DISTRIBUTION: New Zealand.

HABITAT: Scattered on bark of dead twigs.

Lachnella hebe and L. totara resemble one another in shape and colour of the naked pilei. They differ in several microfeatures, mainly in structure of the context and shape of the spores. Exterior walls of occasional pilei appear as if delicately tomentose when examined under a dissecting microscope, an appearance produced by brief ends of occasional context hyphae which project slightly.