266 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION D. 



S. latijrons var. dissecta, Miill-Arg. 



New Zealand : Auckland (Flockton). 



5. subcaperata, Nyl. 



Tasmania : (Gunn), Mount Wellington, and Mount Arthur 



(Wilson, No. 1203), East Mount Field (Maiden), Russell 



Falls (Mrs. Townshend in Flockton Collection). 



This is Lichen filix of R. Brown, No. 555, collected by him on 



Table Mountain (Tasmania). Babington, in a note with Brown's 



specimens, now in Kew Herb., says : " It may perhaps belong to 



S. filicina or a form of 5. latifrons, A. Rich." There are also 



specimens in Kew and in National Herbarium, Sydney, collected 



by Hooker and Oldfield on Mount Welhngton and Back River, as 



already recorded in the Flora of Tasmania ii. 



New Zealand : (Knight), Okahune (Cheel). 

 Knight's specimens in Kew and in the Linnean Society of New 

 South Wales are labelled 5. sinuosa, but they appear to me to 

 belong to this species. 



Victoria : Buffalo Mountains (Mrs. Goodyear, in Flockton 

 collection). 



S. sinuosa var. macrophylla, Miill-Arg. 



Lord Howe Island : (Moore, King, Johnstone.) 

 The specimens collected by Moore have already been recorded 

 by Zahlbruckner (31.193), but the specimens, however, in the 

 National Herbarium, Sydney, are labelled S. latifrons. There is 

 evidently some mistake, as the true latifrons is a very different plant. 

 Zahlbruckner I.e. also includes as a synonym of this species S. sub- 

 caperata of Nylander. I have carefully examined a large series of 

 specimens and have no difficulty whatever of separating the plants 

 from Tasmania and New Zealand, which I take to be the true 5. 

 subcaperata from those collected in Lord Howe Island. 



S. sinuosa var. caperata, Hue. 



Tasmania : (Gunn). Only a small specimen was found 

 associated with S. latifrons, but is very different from 

 that plant, and may be referred to this variety. 



5. stipitata, Knight — Proc. Roy. Soc, Queensl., vii., 8 (1889). 



Victoria : Mount Macedon (Wilson, No. 239). 



When collecting the specimens of this species it appears that 

 Wilson also found some specimens of another hchen, which he 

 described as " a remarkable plant, somewhat Hke a minute lead- 

 coloured ostrich feather (30, p. 8). (Proc. Roy. Soc, Queensl., 

 vii., 8 (1889). He further states that among the specimens were 

 found one or two which were tipped by a minute broad green frond, 

 having in its under surface white urceolate cyphellas and containing 

 true yellowish-green gonidia. 



In consequence of this discovery, Wilson concluded that these 

 lead-coloured plumules were the juvenile form of 5. stipitata. 



