299 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. 
While a love of Botany exists, his memory will be honoured 
as one of its most devoted followers ; and while a greenhouse 
or conservatory remain, their gay and beauteous inhabitants 
will ever remind the spectator of his many and valued 
labours. With the Botanist his memory will be long che- 
rished, and a due appreciation of his talents and industry 
must ever be awarded him for the indefatigable perseverance 
with which, to use his own favourite phrase, he continued his 
* pursuit of Flora," through the varied regions of Australia, 
as well as for the generosity with which he diffused the stores 
he had brought home with him, enriching the herbaria, not 
only of the English, but also of the continental botanist. 
From the geographer, as he traces on the map of Australia 
the valuable discoveries made in that country during his 
lengthened sojourn, the due meed of praise will also be 
awarded. But the great debt of gratitude to the memory of 
Allan Cunningham is due from the agriculturist, who owes so 
much to the indefatigable perseverance and research of the 
explorer of the vast pastoral country to the north-west and 
north of the colony of New South Wales.* 
On CENOMYCE RETIPORA. By W. J. H. 
(With a Plate. Tas. X.) 
Having received copious specimens of this singular Lichen, 
collected in Van Diemen’s Land by Ronald Gunn, Esq., and 
others, gathered recently in New Zealand, I am able to give 
a figure, which will, I trust, exhibit the beautiful structure 
of this plant. more correctly than the only representation 
that has yet been published,—I mean that of Labillardiére, 
in his Plante Nove- Hollandie. 
* It will doubtless be gratifying to the botanist to know that the valuable 
and extensive herbarium of Allan Cunningham has reached this country in 
safety, and is (by the kind bequest of the talented and amiable collector) in 
the possession of the writer of the above sketch. 
