408 DR LAUDER LINDSAY ON THE 



publishing as new, and under new names, species, which a wider experience 

 speedily proves to be identical with, or mere forms of, other plants already known 

 as natives of other parts of the world. Collectors are, as a body and as a rule, 

 naturally desirous of naming and describing their own collections ; and, in certain 

 respects, no other Botanists can be so well qualified to do so. Nor is it always 

 possible to secure the co-operation of those overworked, eminent authorities, who 

 have the largest knowledge of the special departments of botanical science which 

 they respectively cultivate and adorn. 



Holding such views, and in the absence, on my own part, of the necessary 

 qualifications, advantages, or opportunities, I have gladly availed myself, in the 

 determination of species (and to a certain extent also, in their description), of 

 the valued assistance of my friends Dr Nylander of Paris (for Lichens), and Feed. 

 Currey, F.R.S., of London (for Fungi), — the one, the most eminent living authority 

 in systematic and descriptive Lichenology ; the other, one of our most accomplished 

 British Fungologists* 



In reference to the following enumeration of Otago Lichens, — with one or two 

 exceptions, — the names assigned are those of Dr Nylander,! who writes as follows 

 regarding the Lichen collection: — 



" Les votres sont d'un grande valeur pour la Flore Antarctique, surtout a cause 

 des saxicoles et especes d'un ordre inferieur qu'elle renferment et qui avant etaient 

 trop imparfaitement representes parmi les materiaux rapportes de ce bout du 

 monde.l . . . Certainement les especes . . . et les varietes sont toutes 

 nouvelles pour la Science. La Flore de la Nouvelle Zelande a par vos decouvertes 

 fait des acquisitions importants dans le domaine lichenographique."§ 



In regard to the Fungi, in several cases I am indebted to Mr Currey, not only 

 for names, but also for specific diagnoses and notes on structure or affinities. 

 In a few other cases (of fungi or fungo-lichenes), where complete materials 

 do not exist in my collection for full description, the plants not being in a perfect 

 state as to fruit or otherwise, I have assigned names with much diffidence, but 

 not without due deliberation, in the belief that the subsequent researches (to 

 which the names and notes now given may perhaps lead) of Local Botanists, who 



* I use the terra Fungology in preference to Mycology (referring to that department of 

 hotanical science which treats of Fungi), because, though less euphonious or elegant, it is also less 

 open to misunderstanding ; the term Mycology being equally applicable and applied to that depart- 

 ment of anatomical science which treats of the muscular system in man and animals. I am borne 

 out, in the preference of the term Fungology, by the recent and high authority of Berkeley (" Out- 

 lines of British Fungology," 1860, p. 2). 



j - Since my " Observations" were committed to the printer, a paper by Dr Nylander, entitled 

 " Lichenes Novae Zelandise, quos ibi legit anno 1861 Dr Lauder Lindsay," has been published in the 

 Journal of the Linnean Society : Botany, vol. ix. p. 244, which contains the specific diagnoses of 

 the majority of the Lichens referred to in the following and aforesaid " Observations." Fortunately 

 the paper has been issued in time to enable me to insert references thereto at their proper places in 

 the present text. 



X Letter, dated August 3, 1864. § Letter, dated August 22, 1865. 



