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mination of marine algre, having lately published in the Proceed- 

 ings of the Royal Society of Victoria, Vol. IV, Part II, a 

 classified list of the seaweeds of Port Phillip Heads and Western 

 Port. The Revd. F. R. M. Wilson also supplies, in Vol. V, the 

 first part of a lichen flora of his colony. Considering the large 

 sums spent on botany in Victoria, very little has been devoted to 

 the study of the native fungi ; although a single plant of this 

 order may wreck the year's labour of a whole farming commu- 

 nity. In Mrs. Martin Victoria possesses a mycologist who has 

 suppHed by her private energy the wide gap that would otherwise 

 have existed in the plant-lore of her native colony ; and her 

 collection of fungi is one of the most complete in the southern 

 hemisphere. 



The principal contributors of recent papers on botanical 

 subjects to the Royal Society of South Australia are Messrs. 

 M. Holtze and Ralph Tate. The former gives details of intro- 

 duced plants in the Northern Territory, which exhibit close 

 resemblance to similar lists published respecting Queensland ; 

 and he also supplies interesting notes concerning a botanical 

 trip to Melville Island, at the entrance to Van Diemen Gulf. 

 Professor Ralph Tate, whose scientific energy flows in so many 

 different channels, gives a list of plants from the Northern 

 Territory, the collection of Dr. E. C. Stirling. The Elder 

 Expedition to Central Australia offered opportunities for the study 

 of the inland flora that were eagerly seized upon by the lovers of 

 botany in South Australia. Mr. H. Elmes was appointed 

 collector for the expedition ; and the plants obtained are being 

 determined on the joint authority of Professor Ralph Tate and 

 Baron von Mueller, the first portion of their work appearing in 

 a special issue of the Royal Society of South Australia of 

 December last. Specimens of the plants gathered have been pro- 

 mised to the Queensland Government herbarium, and species of 

 special mterest will doubtless be exhibited by Mr. Bailey. 



The necessity for the publication of a new flora of Tasmania 

 was prominently mentioned at the Hobart meeting of the 

 Australasian Association ; but so far without effect. Tasmania 

 has been well supplied with lovers of eryptogamic botany, and 

 Mr. W. A. Weymouth's name figures largely in Professor 

 Brotherus' latest contribution to the study of Australian Musci, 



