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THE VICTORIAK NATURALIST. 



LIST OF AUSTRALIAN LICHENS, 



INDICATIVE OF ADDITIONAL SPECIES OR OF UNRECORDED 

 LOCALITIES, FROM DR. J. MUELLER'S ELUCIDATIONS, 



Offered by Baron von Mueller, K.C.M.G., M. & Ph.D., 



F.R.S., ETC. 



The present enumeration was intended to form part of a 

 supplement to the list of the 3516 Australian evascular plants, 

 promulgated in the eleventh volume of the " Fragmenta 

 Phytographias Australise" six years ago ; but as the twelfth 

 volume of that work could not yet be completed — other more 

 urgent literary work needing precedence — it is now thought 

 best, to publish in the pages of the Victorian Naturalist, by kind 

 permission of its learned editor, successively the supplemental 

 species found since in various regions of the Australian con- 

 tinent and in Tasmania. A commencement is now made with 

 those Lichens, which have been additionally elaborated by the 

 leading specialist, Dr. Jean Mueller, of Geneva, since i88r, 

 from material furnished by the Botanic Museum of Melbourne. 

 But this enumeration does not comprise the whole addenda, 

 either for new specific records or for additional notes on 

 geographic distribution, inasmuch as the Rev. F. R. M. Wilson 

 gave separate publicity to the result of his own meritorious 

 local researches on our Lichens, as sixty-four additional species, 

 with one augmenting genus — irrespective of many new geo- 

 graphic indications, not obtained by me independently — are 

 shown to occur in Queensland through researches of distin- 

 guished British lichenologists, from Mr. F. M. Bailey's collec- 

 tions. But as he has published these species already in his 

 valuable " Synopsis of the Queensland Flora," no necessity 

 exists of reiterating them in this list. The compilation of the 

 present series from Dr. J. IMueller's important memoirs, and 

 from numerous successive manuscript communications, has 

 been aided by Mr. C. French, jun., of the Government 

 Botanist's Office, Melbourne. Now it will be seen, that the 

 number of Lichens from all parts of Australia, rendered known up 

 to the present date, gives a total of 692, including also a few- 

 recorded by the Rev. Mr. Crombie from Rob. Brown's collec- 

 tions. The genera and species printed in italics are new fnr 

 this part of the world, and in many instances for science also. 



Lichinia coiifinis, Agardh 



Ephebe pubescens, Fries . . 



Collema fitrvum, Acliarius 



■iiiqjlicatum, Nylander 

 leucocarpum, Taylor 

 nigrescens, Acharius 



Leptogium denticulatum, Nylander 



S.A, 



N.S.W. 



. . |Q. 

 N.S.W." 



