184 THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 
of ‘Gertrude’ and ‘Cowanda’ informs me that she has had speci- 
mens from the same locality, but as the species was described 
by Sprengel many years since, [ think that it must occur some- 
where nearer the coast. It grows to the height of several inches, ° 
and the upper surface is granulate. The podetia are erect, 
tubularly ventricose, pierced with numerous small apertures, of 
a sulphury brown colour, branched, and having small black 
apothecia. As it becomes old, it assumes somewhat a coralline 
appearance, becoming nearly white. My learned friend, Dr. 
EF. Mueller, informs me that C, retipora is common in the glacial 
regions of Tasmania and New Zealand.” On page 11 of the 
same work Woolls also refers to it as follows:—“It is highly 
probable that our Cladoniae of which we have also the elegant 
C. retipora, contains a certain quantity of gummy and starchy 
matter, and hence they might be used in hooping cough and 
other complaints of the lungs, but it would be difficult to pro- 
cure them in any quantity.’ Since the publication of Woolls’ 
work (1867), there have been many collections of this species 
made, chiefly in Tasmania and New Zealand, all of which con- 
firm the statement made by Mueller, that it is common in the 
glacial regions. In a letter to me dated 9th October, 1912, Mr. 
J. W. Audas, in sending me specimens states that “it grows .in 
abundance at the Grampians (Victoria), and often occupies 
large patches on the sandstone ridges, but I have uot noticed it 
growing anywhere else in Victoria.” It would appear from the 
above statement, together with the remarks made by the late 
Rey. Dr. Woolls, that the plant is comparatively rare, but this 
is not so, as we find it recorded in no less than 28 works, and 
the collections which have accumulated in the National Her- 
barium, Sydney, and now properly organized in their proper 
botanical sequence, show that this remarkable lichen had a very 
_wide range in distribution, being represented in many localities 
in every State in the Commonwealth, as well as being plentiful 
in New Zealand and New Caledonia. To give an idea of the 
exact distribution, as shown by an examination of specimens 
seen by me in the Royal Herbarium, Kew, British Museum and 
National Herbarium, Sydney, I have drawn up a list of the 
actual localities together with a reference to the numerous works 
in which the species has been recorded, as follows:— 
See Cheel’s “Bibliography of Australian Lichens” in Proe. 
Roy. Soc. N.S.W., xxxvii. (1903), 172 and xl. (1906), 41, op- 
posite the following numerals, 3, 4, 6, 8, 11, 17, 38, 41, 42, 
49, 57, 64, 85, 94, 101, 103, 119, 127, 145, 147, 148. 
Reprints of the above Bibliography, are in the Naturalists’ 
