CONIFERAE. Dacrydium colensoi: Wellington, Horopito, 450 m. CORIARIACEAE. Coriaria arborea: Auckland, Titirangi, 250 m. ELAEOCARPACEAE. Aristotelia serrata: Otago, Horseshoe Bay, Stewart Island. LORANTHACEAE. Elytranthe tetrapetala: Canterbury, Punch Bowl, Arthurs Pass, 850 m. UNKNOWN HOSTS. Auckland, Moumoukai Valley, Hunua Ranges, 350 m; Waikowhai, 20 m.

Hymenophore annual, membranous, adherent, effused forming irregular areas to 12 x 4 cm; hymenial surface dingy white or pallid ochre, granular, farinose, not creviced; margin thinning out, arachnoid, white, adherent. Context white, 50-150 µm thick, basal layer of a few repent hyphae, intermediate layer of loosely arranged mainly ascending hyphae more freely branched in the subhymenium; generative hyphae 3-3.5 µm diameter, walls 0.2 µm thick, hyaline, naked, with clamp connections, Cystidia arising from the base of the intermediate layer, projecting to 65 µm, cylindrical or slightly expanded from bases to apices, 80-130 x 6-8 µm, walls naked, thickened basally to 2.5 µm, becoming thinner towards the often collapsed apices. Hymenial layer to 20 µm deep, a scanty palisade of basidia, paraphyses, and cystidia. Basidia subclavate, 10-18 x 4-5 µm, bearing 4 spores; sterigmata erect, to 5 µm long. Paraphyses subclavate, 8-12 x 3-4 µm. Spores cylindrical or allantoid, with rounded ends, 6-9 x 2-2.5 µm, walls smooth, hyaline, 0.1 µm thick; often adhering in fours.

DISTRIBUTION: Europe, Great Britain, North America, New Zealand.

HABITAT: Effused on bark or decorticated wood of dead branches.

Cystidia are expanded slightly from bases to apices, and walls become thickened progressively from apices to bases. In several collections they are arranged in clusters in small spines, so that the species might be sought under Odontia of the Hydnaceae; but in other particulars are identical with even collections listed. Spores are allantoid, some cylindrical, and in shape resemble those of T. gracillima.

TYPE LOCALITY: Mustiala, Finland.