CIIARACEjE australes. 211 



made upon the Blacks near this Lily, and they took refuge under the 

 leaves, and the white men could not get them out or get a shot at 

 them, they were so effectually concealed. 



" Sir William Hooker wishes me to procure sundry seeds or roots 

 for him, which I think I shall be able to do. The Bunya-Bunya 

 grows on the range above 'Kenilworth,' so the next season, nearly 

 three years off, I hope to be able to supply him with some ; but the 



Blacks do not approve of their property being too much interfered 

 with. 



" The c Moreton Bay Pine * I can easily procure for him. And 

 think also the seeds of the Lily that he is anxious for." 



harace^e Australes; being a Catalogue of the Species of Australian 

 Characeae which were known to Professor Braun in the year 1S54. 

 {Those marked with an asterisk are Tasmanian Species.) 



1. Nitella Stuarti*, A. Br., Linncea, vol. xxv. p. 704. 



2. N. microphylla, A. Br. 



3. N. glceostachys, A. Br. 



4. N. subtilissima, A. Br. 



5. N, Sonderi, A. Br., JAnncea, vol. xxv. p. 704. 



6. N. Gunnii*, A. Br., Linn. I.e. 



a, penicillata* (N. penicilhita), A. Br., Hook. Journ. 

 (S, fast' ' ~ 



y, minuta*. 



7. N. biformis, A. Br. 



8. N. Lhotzkyi, A. Br. 



/?, minor, A. Br., Linn. I. a. 



9. N. aemula, A. Br., Linn. I. c. 



10. N. heterophylla, A. Br. 



11. N. congesta, R.Br. 



12. N. gelatinosa*, A. Br. 



a, genuina. 



& podostachya*, A. Br., Linncea, vol. xxv. p. 705. 



y, cladostachya. 



8, cryptostachya*. 



€, microcephala*, A. Br. in Hook. Jouru. 



£, polycephala, A. Br., Linn. I. c. 



