LICHENS. 



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To this list must be added eleven species, which, together with 



those already enumerated, appear in the " Journal of Botany," 



published at Halle, in 1856, as a part of the " Plants? Muelleriana3," 



or the plants collected in Victoria by Dr. F. Mueller : 



Cladonia cornicularia Sticta aurata 



C. carneola var. gracilis ? S. cinereo-glauca 



C. furcata Parmelia perlata 



C. rigida P. spinosa 



ITsnea jlorida Biatora cinnabarina. 



Peltigera polydactyla 



KURRAJONG AND TOMAH. 



(1861.) * 



~T\ uring a late trip to Tomah, I was particularly interested with 

 the cryptogamous botany of that locality, and 1 think that 

 any persons who are anxious to make collections of ferns could 

 scarcely select a more favoured spot as the scene of their 

 exertions. Dicksonia antarctica is the most splendid of the tree 

 ferns, and some of them exceed fifty feet in height. It was 

 mentioned some years since by Mr. Cunningham as a botanical 

 curiosity, that " every specimen of the DicJcsonia had young 

 seedlings of Quintinia Sieberl growing from its stem into which 

 they w r ere well rooted." This curious fact may still be noticed 

 in one part of the mountain, but the beautiful Quintinia is not 

 always parasitical, for some splendid specimens of it may be seen 

 growing independently as forest trees near the Cut Rock and 

 other places. In connection also with Dicksonia, the interesting 

 climbing plant Fieldia A ustralis of the Bignonia family may be 

 mentioned, as it is frequently met with in the shady woods, 

 adhering to the steins of the tree ferns. The smaller DicJcsonia 

 (JD. davallioides) is very abundant ; but as the fronds are very 

 membranaceous, and liable to be injured by some insect, it is dif- 



