NOTES ON LICHENS IN NEW SOUTH WALES ; 



By REV. P. R. M WILSON, KEW, VICTORIA. 



During last September, being on a visit to Sydney, I called on the 

 Hon. W. McLeay, the President of the Linnean Society of New 

 South Wales, and by him I was kindly introduced to Mr. Fletcher, 

 the Secretary of the Society and Curator of their Museum. This 

 Museum was burned some time ago, and all its contents utterly 

 destroyed, along with many books lent to the Institution by the 

 President. The records of the Society also perished. The present 

 Museum and Library owe their efficiency to the unwearied energy 

 of the Secretary, and the great liberality and influence of the 

 President, the Hon. Wm. McLeay. 



Through the courtesy of the Secretary, I examined a named 

 collection of New Zealand Lichens, sent by Dr. Knight, of Welling- 

 ton, which I found to be a useful nucleus of a lichen herbarium, 

 containing typical forms ; and I trust it may be greatly augmented 

 by the energy of Australian Lichenologists, of which, I am sorry 

 to say, there are so few. When I called at the National Museum 

 in the Botanical Gardens, I found no lichens at all in the her- 

 barium there. I have heard of one or two persons who have 

 collected a few lichens, but have not been able to name them ; 

 so that this small collection in the Museum of the Linnean Society 

 is the only named collection in New South Wales, so far as I am 

 aware. 



Mr. Fletcher kindly gave me information where I was most 

 likely to find lichens ; and by his directions I spent a day at 

 Manly, near Sydney, and a day at the Waterfall in the National 

 Park. I spent also two hours at Newport, near the mouth of the 

 Hawkesbury ; and an hour or so in the Botanical Gardens at 

 Sydney. A few notes on the lichens of these localities, as they 



