a list of the 

 Charas, Mosses, Liverworts, Lichens, 



FUNGSj AND AlGALS 



OF EXTRA-TROPTCAL SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 



[Extracted from " Supplementuni Fragmetitorum Phytographiae 

 AustralifP."] 



[Read April 5, 1881.] 



Messrs. Tenison AVoods and Bailey in their paper "On some 

 Fungi of Xew South Walesa and Queensland," read before the 

 Linuean Society, N.S.W., on Feb. 25, 1880, make the remark, 

 somewhat unfortunately as the secjuel will show, that, "what- 

 ever attention has been paid to tlie botany of Australia, wo 

 must admit that there are some departments of the science 

 which have been comparatively neglected. These are notably 

 the Mosses, Lichens, and Fungi." Tlie authors of the above 

 passages must have been unaware of the long-continued and 

 patient efforts made by Baron F. von Mueller to collect 

 material for the purpose of systematic investigation of these 

 orders, and of the fact that this very material was then in the 

 hands of the most accomplished specialists for identification. 

 I am sure, that those gentlemen are innocent of any attempt 

 to convey the impression, that Baron F. von Mueller has neg- 

 lected any department of botanical science. His vindication is 

 furnished by the lists of the terrestrial and oceanic cryptogams 

 of Australia, which have been issued by him in the form of a 

 supplement to his 11th volume of the Frag. Phyt. Austral. 



The CuAEACE.E are enumerated by Dr. Alex. Braun, and 

 include Chara, 10 species, and NUella. IS species. Of these, 

 ^South Australia possesses three of the former, and four of the 

 latter genus, one of Avhich is restricted to the colony. 



The Mosses, which have been identified by Dr. E. Hampe, 

 number for the whole continent 382 species. In this list, the 

 geographical distribution of the species is not indicated ; but 

 this omission, so far as regards South Australia, has been com- 

 municated to me by Baron F. von Mueller. The specimens, on 

 which this list of 3G species is based, were gathered by the 

 Baron "during the early days of colonisation in South Aus- 

 tralia. This number is exceedingly small in proportion to what 



