niO THE JOURNAL OF IJOTAXV 



growth in forest on long ridge, abundant, 3— I'OOO', March 1914; 

 n. 0309. Terrestrial. Disfrlb. Confined to Bellenden Ker range. 



Vittaria elonqata Swartz. Kuranda, epiphytic in forest, pendant, 

 1000', March 1914; n. 6344. Distrih. Queensland; New South 

 Wales. Tro])ical Polynesia. Asia. 



V. pusilla Blume var. wooroonooran Domin. {V. wooroonooran 

 F. M. Bailey. Kep. Govt. Sci. Exped. to Bellenden Ker, p. 77, 1889.) 

 Bellenden Ker range, epiphytic on trees and rocks in forest and summit 

 scrub, 3000-5400', March " 1914 ; n. 6325. Disfrih. The variety is 

 confined to Queensland. The species extends from Queensland to 

 Java, Malacca and Ceylon. 



Pol i^ podium simplicissimum F. Muell. Bellenden Ker range, 

 epiphytic on trees and rocks, forest to summit scrub, 3000-5400', 

 March 1914 ; n. 6328. Distrih. Queensland. 



F. Billardieri (Willd.) Christens. (P. austmh Mett.). Bellenden 

 Ker range, on trees and rocks, forest to summit scrub, 3000-5400', 

 March 1914 ; n. 6327. Disfrih. Queensland ; New South Wales ; 

 Victoria ; Tasmania ; New Zealand. Antarctic America. South 

 Africa. New Guinea. 



Cyclopliorus acrostichoides (Forst.) Presl. Kuranda, epiphytic 

 in forest, 1000', March 1914; n. 6356. "Fronds very fleshy." 

 ^Disfrih. Queensland. Polynesia. Malay Islands. Ceylon. 



Marattia fraxinea Sm. Bellenden Ker range, abundant from 

 2000' to summit (5400), undergrowth in forest, March 1914; 

 n. 6321. " Plants about 1*25 m. high." Distrih. Queensland; New 

 South Wales. Asia. Africa. 



Clavaria aurnntia Cooke & Massee in Grev. xvi. 33 (1887). 



Terrestrial. Small forest undergrowth. Bellenden Ker, N. Queens- 

 land, 4500', March ; n. 6329. 



Distrih. Australia. 



The specimens differ from the original description in the fact that 

 one of them was slightl}^ branched. The spores cannot be described 

 as small, being 5-7 ^ X 4-5 /u. They have a verrucose wall. The 

 basidia are about 30^ X 7 /i, and have four stigmata 5-Q jx in length. 



NEW KARE OR CRITICAL LICHENS. , 



Br W. Watson, B.Sc. 



(Concluded from p. 210.) 



Gj/ropliora j^f'^hoscidpa iov\\\ fitnhriata (T. & B.) Mudd. On 

 rock, 1600 ft., Llanberis (49 j. Apothecia w^ere present. 



Bceomyces rufus var. sessilis Nvl. Haddeo valley (5), Kingsettle 

 hill (6). 



Icmadophila (Bruginosa (Scop.) Trevis. The septate spores and 

 the stichococcoid algal symbiont warrant the separation of this plant 

 from Bceomyces. 



tSfercocanlon alpinuvi Laur. was found with apothecia on the 



