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A LIST OF THE KNOWN LICHENS OF TASMANIA. 



By John Shielet, B. Be, Queensland. 



In preparing this paper the following works have been con- 

 sulted : — Babington's *' Lichens of Tasmania," in Hooker's 

 flora of the island, by a most accurate and painstaking licheno- 

 logist, many of whose names are now obsolete from changes 

 cf classification : " Hooker's Journal of Botany for 1844 and 

 1847," containing descriptions of all lichens named by J. D. 

 Hooker and T. Taylor, also the " Botany of the Antarctic 

 Voyage of H.M. ships Erebus and Terror." Few of the 

 names given by Hooker and Taylor are now employed, as they 

 are mainly synonyms of lichens previously described by older 

 collectors : the Rev. J. M. Crombie's paper on the lichens of 

 Robert Brown's herbarium, published in the Journal of the 

 Liunsean Society, Vol. xvii., 1879, pp. 390-401 ; a sound and 

 valuable contribution : " Exotische Flechten aus dem Herbax 

 des K. K. botanischen Hofkabinetes in Wien," and '*Ein 

 neuer Beitrag Zur Fleehten Flora Australiens," by Dr. A. v. 

 Krempelhiiber, whose names, like those of Hooker and 

 Taylor, have almost wholly lapsed: numerous "Licheno- 

 logische Beitrage," of Dr. Jean Miiller, of G-eneva, the most 

 eminent lichenologist of the day ; Dr. W. Nylander's 

 " Synopsis Methodica Lichenum"; and Baron F. v. Mueller's 

 lists of Australian lichens, in " Fragmenta PhjrtographiaB 

 Australiae," Vol. xi., and the Victorian Naturalist, Vol, iv., 

 pp. 88-95. 



The classification is that of Dr. Jean Miiller, and the 

 reference following the name of each species is the authority 

 by which the plant is regarded as Tasmanian. 



Order I. — Ephebace^ (Njl-) Cromh. (Epebaceiin GreviUea. 

 Vol. ,p. ). 



Tribe I. — Ephebe^ (Nyl.) Cromh, (Ephebei in G-rerellea, 

 Vol. p. ). 



Genus 1. — Ephebe, Fries. 



1. Ephebe tasmanica, Cromh., Lich., R. Brown's Herb., 



No. 522 (b). 



2. „ pubescens, Ach. „ „ „ „ 



No. 522 (a). 



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