ON SOME VICTORIAN LICHENS, 



By JOHN SHIRLEY, B.Sc. 



[_Read before the Rot/al Society of Queensland, 21st April, 1894.] 



In my study of the Queensland Lichens it has been found neces- 

 sary from time to time to refer to papers on American plants of 

 the same order for original descriptions ; and it has gradually 

 been forced upon me that the relationship between American and 

 Australian lichens is far closer than that between European and 

 Australian lichens, and even more close than are the similarities 

 and resemblances shown by Asiatic and Australian plants of this 

 family. During my visit to Tasmania in 1892, to attend the 

 meeting of the Australasian Association, I made a small collec- 

 tion of Tasmanian lichens — an account of which, unfortunately 

 bristling with printer's errors, appears in the Transactions of 

 the Royal Society of Tasmania for 1892. In working out these 

 lichens the wonderful relationship to the plants published in 

 American lists was again shown, and led me to review the sub- 

 ject as a whole ; and this review was embodied in a paper read 

 before the members of the Australasian Association at Adelaide, 

 in September last. Having in my possession a small collection 

 of Victorian lichens, obtained in exchange from the Rev. F. R. 

 M. Wilson, of Kew, V., I determined to make a special examina- 

 tion of them with a view to show whether the same relationship 

 to American forms would again be exhibited. Most of the Vic- 

 torian lichens had been named by my correspondent, but on 

 reference to the latest American works on lichenology, my labels 

 had to be changed, as the greater number bore synonyms of 

 plants whose names had been given long before by other workers. 

 In the list attached corrections have been made, and the biblio- 

 graphy supplied. 



