28. 
The bracts on Oe specimens collected were nearly white and very 
deciduous, the er ones not exceeding 2 in. in length, the inner- 
most ones much pate very narrow, and quite membranous,—Proe. 
Roy. Soe. QI. 
ish: Eumundi. 
so excelsa, 7. v. UM. Specimens of the male inflorescence of this 
ecies were obtained. The outer b racts: ly as long as the 
bases, whi 
are collected into three bundles and are, except for their green tips, 
a deep red colour, and form a star of three rays several inches in 
dtueitee bearing in its centre the spike of stamens, the filaments of 
which are short, and bear pale-coloured 2-celled obtuse anthers.— 
be a oy. Soc . QL. xi. 
: Eumundi. 
Order NAIADEZ. 
POTAMOGETON, Linn. 
x. ae Linn. Stems very slender, gees dich 
Leaves all submerged, very narrow-linear, 2 to _ long, 1-nerved, 
most of them dilated at the base into a rather ie hea which * 
scarious at the edge and often projecting at the t > into 2 smal 
scarious lobes, the sheathing stipules of the other i) wants oe 
rarely sheathing the base of the peduncle. Peduneles usually bearing 
several clusters of 2 or 3 flowers at some distance from each sthete 
forming a slender interrupted spike, rarely reduced to a. single tet 
minal chister. Nutlets of P. obtusifolius or "eather smaller.—Flora 
Austr. vii. 173. 
he : Still waters, Jimbour, C. J. Gwyther, 
Order LICHENES. 
(This Lichen Ha hy been prepared for me by our local lichen- 
ologist, Mr. John Shirley.) 
The following ants determined by Dr. Jean Miller, of Genera, 
are reported by him as natives of Queensland. 
PYRENOCARPEA. 
(Mull. Arg. Consp. Syst. Lich. Nov. Zeal., p. 15.) sr 
Trize DERMATOCARPEA, Mull. Arg. Pyrenoe. Cub., P- 
DERMATOCARPON, Mull. Arg. Pyrenoc. Cub., p . 377. ad 
atum, 7) 3, Arct., p. 253. Thallus single es yer 
coriaceous, eltate, umbilieato- -aflixed, en expan 
lobate to undulate or crenate- th or minutely albo- 
granulate, under surface sooth ‘or ifhouhia ose, fulvou ret goes 
-pruiinoses 
theci® 
minute, yery numerous, embedded ; epithecium slight ae 1518 4 | 
rown; spores 8, plc oblong or ellipsoid, simp 
6-10 p. 
Syn.: Lecidea miniata, L. 
Hab.: On rocks, Toowoomba, Hartmann. 
