114 LICHENS OF ' CHLORIS MELVILLIANA.' 



PIdntaginacea. 



Plant ac/o Coronopns, L. Frequent. F. 



I\ maritima, L. Common. F. 



P. IcDiceohita, L. Common. A large shaggy form with very 

 broad coarse leaves occurs at Dunaft' Head, Fanet Pomt, 

 and the Bms. F. 

 *P. media, L. This plant which is not known as a native in 

 Ireland, appeared last summer (1878) on ground, near the 

 house at Grlenalla, which has not been broken up for a 

 number of years. (My brother tells me that he gathered 

 it once on Bell's Island, Donegal Bay, where search 

 should be made for it). 



P. major, L. Common. F. 



Littorclla lacustris, L. Common. F. 



Chenopodiacea. 

 Chenoijodium album, L. Frequent ; cultivated ground, and about 



houses. F. 

 Suada maritima, Dum. Bare. Horn Head, near Dunfanaghy ; 



near Rossnakill. F. 

 Salsola Kali, L. Local. Horn Head ; Bottom Shore, Fanet ; 



Dunree, &c. F. 

 Atriplex hastata, L. Frequent ; Fanet Lighthouse, &c.; Horn 



Head. F. 

 A. Bahingtonii, Woods. Frequent ; Drimnacraig ; shore near 



the Light-house, Fanet ; Horn Head. F. 

 A. angustifolia , Sm. Bare; with the last at the Lighthouse. F. 

 {A. littoralis, L. Formerly recorded from Fanet in error ; 

 the plant found was A. Bahingtonii. 



(To be contiuued.) 



COBBELATION OF THE LICHENS IN BOBEET 



BBOWN'S 'CHLORIS MELVILLIANA.' 



By the Bev. J. M. Crombie, F.L.S. 



In the above treatise on the flora of Melville Island (1824), 

 R. Brown records {ride ' Miscellaneous Botanical Works,' vol. i., 

 pp. 250-252) the Lichens collected there by Capt. Parry, Lieut. 

 Ross, and Dr. Fischer. Having recently been engaged in arranging 

 the specimens of these preserved in the herbarium of the British 

 Museum, I here give the results of my examination of this small 

 but interesting collection of Arctic Lichens. 



No. 100, s. n. Ggrophora proboscidea. — There are two different 

 species here, of which a. = G. discolor, Fr. fil., and b. = G. pro- 

 boscidea, DC. Both are very sparingly fertile. 



No. 101,^ s. n. Lecanora elegans =: Lecanora {Placodium) elegans, 

 -A-ch. — Of this there are three specimens. One of these is muscicole 

 and sterile, corresponding exactly with the observation of Acharius 



