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and is like one found by me at Maffra in Gippsland, and called by 

 me var. tenella ; only it is rather shorter in the stipe. Calicia, 

 Trachylice and Bceomi/cei, so common in Victoria, were altogethc 

 absent. Of Cladonias there were found only C. verticellata, C. 

 furcata, C. diffissa Wilson, another undetermined, and a few 

 small specimens of Cladina aggregate, in two varieties. All these 

 are common in Victoria, and more luxuriant there. TJsneai are 

 by no means so frequent as in the Southern colony. I found a 

 few U. dasypogoides and U. tricladea, which are abundant in 

 Victoria ; U. longissitna, which I never met, though I often sought 

 for it, in Victoria. Some specimens of Eumitria Baileyi were 

 collected at Waterfall. Perhaps I shall be considered presumptu- 

 ous if I express my opinion that this is but a senescent form of U. 

 dasypoyoides. Of Ramilinm I found four species — It. calicaris, 

 forms canalicidati and inflata, R. scopulorum v u\ subfarinacea, 

 and R. usneoides ; also one undetermined. The last three were 

 new to me. Alectoria australiensis I looked for in vain. Of 

 Peltidece, so abundant in Victoria, I found very few specimens ; 

 only one small patch of Peltigera dolichorhiza and one scrap of 

 P. spuria (?) both at Waterfall. Three or four Stictei were dis- 

 covered in the deep gorge at Waterfall — S. dissimulate var. m*dti- 

 fida, S.jilicin'i and its var. mat ginifera, S. Urrillei var. flavescens, 

 and a narrow form of £. fragillimi. The Victorian fot ms of the 

 last are all broader and, in their adult state, thicker, so far as I 

 have seen ; and they take the form dissimilis. The genus ParmeJia 

 was better represented than most of the others. One which was 

 new to me, very large and beautiful, the most luxuriant Parmelia I 

 have seen, broadly lobate, of a pale glaucescent colour, attracted 

 my attention when at Manly. I discovered it in fruit at New- 

 port. By subsequently testing it with Bichlor. Cal. I find tiie 

 medulla gives a crimson colour, but not so full a red as 

 P. olivetorum. Mr. Shirley, of Brisbane, tells me it is frequent 

 in Queensland, and has been determined by Dr. Knight and 

 by Dr. Stirton to be P. tinctorum. I have dnce received specimens 

 from the New Hebrides, which differ nothing from those obtained 

 in Manly and Newport. I noted the absence of P. Australiensis^ 

 and the comparative rarity of P. conspersa, P. tiltacea, P. Borreri, 



