2€4 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION 



N.S. Wales : Mount Wilson (Gregson). 

 Victoria : Warburton (Wilson). 

 Tasmania: Risdon Cove (Brown, 541). 



L. retigera (Bory), Hue. 



N.S. Wales : Crawford River, Bullahdelah (Cheel). 



Forma isidiosa, Hue. 



N.S. Wales : Big scrub, Richmond River (Wilson, No. 1125), 



Bullahdelah (Cheel). 

 Queensland : Killarney and Southport (Wilson). 



The Australian specimens seem to be identical with those in 

 Kew Herbarium from Umgoe Mountains in Natal, collected by 

 Mr. Plant, as well as several Asiatic specimens. 



(B) Genus — Sticta (Schreb), Hue. 



Section I. — Eu-cyphellatse. 



Under surface of thallus pitted with numerous urceolate- 

 cyphellae. 



Subsection 1 . — Eustica. 



Gonidial layer of the thallus consist'ng of bright green or 

 yellowish-green Palmellaceas gonidia. 



5. filix (Hoffm.), Ny'. 



N.S. Wales : Guntawang (A. G. Hamilton, No. 126) ; Cam- 

 bewarra (Forsyth) ; Belmore Falls (Cheel, Clay and 

 Green). 

 New Zealand : — Forster, Menzies, Hooker, Lyall, Filhol, 

 Stanger, Knight, Nelson, Hochstetter ; Napier and 

 Mount Kaweka, near Hawke's Bay (Colenso) ; Inver- 

 cargill (Foveaux) ; Dusky Bay (Anderson) ; Dunedin 

 (Lindsay) ; Ohakune (Cheel). 

 This s a very common species in New Zealand, and is repre- 

 sented in n arly every collection of Lichens. In the forests at 

 Ohakune the trunks and branches of living trees as well as moss- 

 covered decaying logs are often thickly covered with this plant. It 

 is of a vivid-green colour in a fresh-state, and dries a greyish or stone 

 colour in the herbarium. All the specimens in the Kew Herbarium 

 have already been recorded by numerous authors. 



S. filix var. myrioloba, Miill-Arg. 



N.S. Wales : Richmond River (Camara, No. 50), Macleay 



River (Ru !der). 

 Queensland : — Toowoomba (Hartmann). 

 This plant is labelled S. filix in National Herbarium, Melbourne. 



Brisbane (Bailey), Toowoomba (J. Staer). 

 This variety very closely resembles S. Dufourii Del. syn. S. 

 elegans Leight, found at Rock Walk, Ilsham, near Torquay, England. 



