BY HENRY TRYON. 5 
for its tri-foliate leaves, and for its acidulous and aromatic fruits, 
which are succulent and palatable in its wild state. By cultivation 
it might be made an excellent fruit.” 
It must not, however, be supposed that all his new discoveries 
were plants in which his name has been immortalized ; it is on 
these that those who respect his memory will love to dwell. 
Several additional novelties amongst plants which he was im- 
mediately instrumental in bringing to light have been otherwise 
designated. Much of his work consisted in discovering new 
localities for plants previously known, or in the confirmation of 
report as to plant locations by botanists, notably those of A. 
Cunningham, who had preceded him. Amongst these last was 
the observation that that plant of strange geographical range, 
Drimys (in the person of dipetala), still grew on the slopes of 
Mt. Lindsay. 
Neither did he restrict his attention to phanerogamia ; less 
humble plants, especially during the last few months of his 
sojourn at the Logan, already claimed his attention. He had in 
all his writing lamented the little information, comparatively 
speaking, obtainable concerning the Australian crytogams, and 
especially on the subject of the Fungi And it is well known that 
during the latter part of his residence in Southern Queensland he 
devoted some attention to the lowest order of plants. Thus was 
it through his labours that the detection of many novel fungs in 
that district were made. It was in appreciation also of his efforts 
in this direction that the learned botanists, P. H. Saccardo and 
A. N. Berlese, in the “ Revue Mycologique” for April, 1885, 
created the genus Scortechinia for the reception of one of the 
plants so brought to light. Further than this, at the time of his 
departure from this colony, he had prepared a work which he had 
compiled from various sources—but principally from the “ Sylloge 
Fungorum,” a complete ‘ Descriptive Catalogue of the known 
Pyrenomycetes of Australia,” which was at that date ready for the 
press, and which it is to be hoped will yet see the light. Those 
who know the importance of the part played by these otherwise 
insignificant fungi in the enactment of their life history will 
appreciate such a great labour of love. 
The same eminent authorities, Saccardo and Berlese, also 
named a species of Rhythiosterium after Scortechini, he being 
the discoverer of this bark-loving fungus in the Logan district, 
and some notion of the useful work he accomplished amongst 
fungi may be gathered from a perusal of the latter pages of Mr. 
