THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 2^ 



On the ridges between Bodman's Creek and the Bruthen 

 Creek E. obliqua is almost the sole tree, in a somewhat dwarf 

 form. Where the soil is somewhat deeper, and in the gullies, 

 are also E. capitellata and E. goniocalyx. On leaving Bruthen 

 Creek and ascending the hills towards Curyjong, 

 E. obliqua. E. capitellata gradually ceases at 

 this place. E. goniocalyx and E. globulus — these extend in 

 about the proportions relatively to each other across the ranges 

 to the fall northwards to Merriman's Creek, where there are 

 also, in addition, some very large trees of E. Stuartiana. On 

 the falling ground thence to Merriman's Creek E. obliqua, 

 E. amygdalina, and at Merriman's Creek E. gunii on the clayey 

 flats. 



Merriman's Creek to Rosedale. — On the sandy hills and 

 clayey flats on the north side of Merriman's 

 eriary e s. Qj-gg^ ^j.g j;_ obliqua, and less numbers of 

 E. amygdalina. In one spot I observed a small colony of 

 E. piperita ; in the gullies and in the patches of better soil, 

 E. goniocalyx, E. viminalis, and also E. gunii of small size. 

 Where the sandy and clayey ridges merge into the clayey flats 

 with a thin coat of soil, extending thence to Rosedale, there 

 are E. amygdalina. On the clayey flats and about Rosedale, 

 E. tereticornis. On the Glengary River, at Rosedale, E. 

 viminalis. 



DESCEIPTIONS OF TWO NEW LICHENS AND A LIST OF 

 ADDITIONAL LICHENS NEW TO VICTOEIA. 



(Read before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, Utli May, 1888 J 



By Eev. F. E. M. Wilson. 



1. Desckiption of a New Species of Amphilgjia. 

 Amphiloma glaucescens. Wilson (spec, nov.) 



Thallus albo-glaucescent, lobato-dilated (3 inches or more in breadth), 

 unequal, lobes confluent or continuous, thin, circumference white or 

 whitish, and somewhat byssaceo-crenate, under surface snowy white. 

 Elementary filaments of thallus without visible articulations, ramose, 

 •0037m. m. thick. Gonidia irregular in shape and size, -005 to 'OOSm.m. 

 in diameter. 



Apothecia small (about Im.m. in diameter), waxy, pallido-testaceo-rufous, 

 with white inliexed thalline border. Spores 8 in the ascus, colourless, 

 ellipsoideo-oblong, uniseptate, "007 to •Qlm.m. long and ■003m. m. broad. 

 Paraphyses indistinct. Hypothecium pale fuscescent. Gelatina hymenea 

 deep blue with iodine. 



Found on bark of trees. Tambourine Mountain, Queensland, by Mr. 

 John Shirley. 



This species is of some scientific interest, owing to the fact that only two 

 species of the genus Amphiloma have hitherto been known — lanuginosum 

 and gossypinum— and of these two species one has not been analytically 

 examined, so far as the apothecia are concerned. Acharius, at the beginning 

 of this century, described the apothecia of both species, but only by their 



