96 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



Dicksonia Antarctica, continue to increase. A short distance 

 from the entrance I found a splendid specimen of Correa 

 Lawrenciana ; it was nearly twenty feet high, and its long narrow 

 branches spread out on all sides. It was in full bloom ; there 

 must have been many thousands of blossoms on it, and hundreds 

 had already fallen off; its flowers were light green. Mr. 

 Luehmann informed me that he had seen specimens of this plant 

 of even larger dimensions on the Upper Murray, and sometimes 

 they bore red flowers. But the most noticeable plants in the 

 gully belong to the cryptogams. In some places the ground was 

 completely covered with the coarser variety of Lomaria Capensis ; 

 in another place Lomaria discolor would flourish to the exclusion 

 of everything else. As I ascended the hills closed in, making in 

 places huge banks of clay or rock. The clay portions were gener- 

 ally dotted all over by the curious reddish -yellowlichens, Bseomyces, 

 whilst the steep rocks bore a plentiful crop of mosses, lichens, 

 Jungermanii, and small fungi. The curious moss, Gyathaphorum 

 pinnata, was in fruit, and very plentiful ; it almost completely 

 covered the lower parts of tree ferns and fallen logs. Creeping 

 plants of Hypnum were to be seen in every direction. Amongst 

 the Jungermanii, Umbraculum and Chiloschyphus were very 

 common. Fungi were very plentiful. I found a quantity of 

 Polyporus spumeus growing tier over tier, fastened like a 

 number of reddish shelves on the base of a white gum. Nearly 

 every rotten log had masses of the white, jelly-like Tremella albida 

 growing on it, as well as the orange-coloured Dacrymices ; the 

 last-named was generally seen peeping out from small cracks in 

 the wood. On a half-decayed hazel I found a quantity of the 

 lovely little blue agaric Leptonia lampropus. This fungus is 

 mentioned by Cooke as being only found in pastures ; they 

 are, however, very common in the Dandenong Ranges and other 

 places, but I have never noticed them except on trunks of trees. 

 For the second time I found, on the under side of a fallen log, 

 that curious little green fungus Ghlorosplenium ceraginosiwn. I 

 got it many years ago at Moondarra, but I made sure that it was 

 a lichen, in consequence of its peculiar colour ; however, Cooke 

 has placed it as a fungus. 



In the crevice of a rock, which was filled with decayed vegetable 

 matter, I discovered a very pretty group of Marasmius. Amongst 

 patches of ferns the white-stemmed, yellow-topped Agaricus inopus 

 rose in groups from half-buried rotten logs. The Earth-Star 

 (Geaster Jioriformis), flourished in great quantities, but it was just 

 at the bursting period, so the specimens obtained were very 

 poor. Another Geaster of a different species was also plentiful, 

 but too far gone for collection. At the base of a large gum I 

 found a few plants of the orange-coloured Tremella mesenterica, 

 but it also was too old. Many other fungs were also obtained — 



