]4<S Proceedings of the Roijal Socieft/ of Victoria. 



7. — The Classification of Lichens. 



The dassificatiou of lichens adopted in the following 

 ])ages, is that of Njdander, as the most natural, being based 

 upon the consideration of all tlie parts and organs of the 

 plants, and exhibiting their place in reference to the neigh- 

 i)ouring classes of Algas on the one side, and Fungi on the 

 other. 



8. — The History of Victorian Lichenology 



Begins with this century. The first lichens collected in 

 Victoria ai-e recorded in an a})pendix to Flinders' Voyage 

 to Terra Austraiis, published in 1814. The collection was 

 made in various parts of Australia and Tasmania by 

 Mr. Robert Brown, who accom|)anied Captain Flinders in 

 his investigation of the coasts of New Holland in 1802. 

 Brown's specimens were afterwards re-examined by Rev. J. 

 M. Crombie, and the result recorded in the Jouinal Lin. 

 Soc, 1880. 



In 1848 and 1849, Dr. Ferdinand Mueller, now Baron 

 von Mueller, collected a number of lichens in Victoria, and 

 sent them to Dr. Hampe, who determined the species. The 

 list appeared in the Report of the Government Botanist to 

 the Victorian Council, 1854. A second parcel of specimens 

 collected in Gippsland and the Australian Alps, was sent to 

 Dr. Hampe, and enumerated by him in Schlechtendals 

 Linnpea, 1856. This list was transcribed into the Govern- 

 ment Botanist's Report to the Victorian Legislative 

 Assembly, 1858. These namings by Hampe need revisal, 

 in view of the more minute examination of later lichen- 

 ology. 



A few lichens collected by a visitor from Glasgow, Mr. 

 Hugh Paton, were named by Dr. Stirton, and published l)y 

 him in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 

 September 1880. They are five in number, and all new to 

 science. 



Collections have been made bv Messrs. R. Wilhehni, 

 D. Sullivan, C. Walther, MerralC C. French, and Mrs. 

 McCann, and forwarded by Baion von Mueller to Europe. 

 The earlier collections were sent to Dr. Krempelhuber, of 

 Blankenberg, on the Hartz Mountains, by whom their 

 names and the descri])tions of new species weie ]iublished 

 in Ben Verhandl. des Kois. Keen. Zool. Bat. OeseL in Wien., 



