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A. sqitamuIatiDii. of Java, Borneo, and the Philippine Islands, but 

 probably endemic to the far-isolated oceanic spot as a remnant of 

 a bygone vegetation, where indeed it is now nearly extinct, as 

 trading horticulturists have carried away three of the only five 

 individual plants known from various spots of the island. Mr. 

 Eobinson writes concerning this fern, that in habit it is not unlike 

 A. Nidus, so that four fronds gathered from one plant could scarcely 

 be missed, and that all fronds appeared fructified, yet it shows no 

 inclination for natural dispersion ; specimens lately received exhibit 

 the spikes semiterete and channelled, and the apex of the frond 

 acute. 



In Endlicher's list and Cunningham's addition of Norfolk 

 Island plants is not contained Mclicytus ramijiorus, a plant all the 

 more interesting from thence, as it seems nowhere represented by 

 any congeneric form in the flora of Continental Australia. As 

 regards the Olea from Norfolk Island, it might be now incidentally 

 remarked that it should be distinguished as Olea Endlicheri, inas- 

 much as Vahl described in the Symbols, iii. 3, his Olea apctala 

 from New Zealand. 



Herr Stephani and^Dr. Cooke have been so good as to name the 

 Hepaticte and Mosses, hitherto sent by Mr. Kobinson fi-om Norfolk 

 Island, as follows : — 



Anthoceros hevis Linne. LopJiocolea ciliata Stephani. 



Bryopteris vittata Mitten. Omphalantlms convexus Stephani. 



Piayiochila Sinclairii Mitten. 



To which is to be added the common Marchantia polymorphahinne. 



HymenochcEte purpurea C. & M. Daldinia vernicosa Fries. 



Tremella lutescens Fries. Thelephora caperata Berkeley. 



Folyporus australis Fries. Xylaria Schweinitzii Berkeley. 



P. hirmtus Fries. Hyjwcrea fusaroides Berkeley. 

 Stereum lohatum Kunze. 



To which are to be added : Folyporus sanguineus Meyer, Hirneola 

 Auricula- J udcBB Fries, and a species of Aseroe. 



Melbourne, October, 1885. 



PBOTOPLASMIC CONTINUITY IN THE FUCACEM. 



By Thomas Hick, B.A., B.Sc. 



Part II. 



The following notes and observations are a continuation of 

 those embodied in a paper on the above subject which appeared in 

 a recent issue of this Journal.* They should, indeed, have formed 

 part of that communication, but their publication was unavoidably 

 postponed. 



* April, 1885. 



