Identifier: victorian929319751976luca (find matches)
Title: The Victorian naturalist
Year: 1884 (1880s)

Arthur Henry Shakespeare Lucas  (1853–1936)
Nombres alternativos	A.H.S.Lucas; Arthur Henry Shakespeare Luras; A. H. S. Lucas
Descripción	botánico y entomólogo británico
Fecha de nacimiento/muerte	7 de mayo de 1853	10 de junio de 1936
Lugar de nacimiento/muerte	Stratford-upon-Avon	Albury
Control de autoridades	: Q2865141 VIAF: 3802231 ISNI: 0000000084178738 Open Library: OL4506631A LCCN: n81111921 SELIBR: 172927 WorldCat

Francis George Allman Barnard  (1857–1932)
	Nombres alternativos	Nombre de nacimiento: Francis George Allman Barnard; Francis Barnard
	Descripción	naturalista, farmacéutico, político, editor y jugador de críquet australiano-británico
	Fecha de nacimiento/muerte	1857 / 26 de diciembre de 1857	1932 / 2 de junio de 1932 / 1 de junio de 1932
	Lugar de nacimiento/muerte	Melbourne	Melbourne
	Control de autoridades	: Q3081456 VIAF: 40699264 LCCN: n81089221 NLA: 36356473 WorldCat

Subjects: Natural history Natural history
Publisher: (Melbourne) Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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e. This wasthe only native shrub noticed duringmy visit. South-eastern coast Next I walked to the south-easterncoast about 25 metres from theeastern point. Some herbs grew herein the sandy soil between the clumpsof Blue Tussock-grass. The introducedspecies were Stiff Rye-grass *Loliumloliaceum, Fern Grass *Catapodiumrigidum, Coast Barb-grass *Parapholisincurva, Drooping-flower Clover *rr/-folium cernuum and Purple Cudweed^Gnaphalium purpureum. The nativespecies were Variable Plantain Plan-tago varia. Yellow Wood-sorrelOxalis corniculata, Leek Lily Bulbinesemibarbata and Sea Pearlwort Saginamaritima. Just to the south-west wassome White Cudweed *Gnaphaliumcandidissimum. About 10 metres further to thesouth-west, the sandy shore gave wayto a steep granite slope with ledgescarrying shallow soil. Some of theherbs in this soil were Pink PurslaneCalandrinia calyptrata, Sea PearlwortSagina maritima, Chickweed *Stellariamedia, Black-anther Flax-lily Dianellarevoluta and a Pennywort Hydrocotyle
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156 Vict. Nat. Vol. 93 sp. The bright orange lichen Telo-schistes spinosus (Hook. f. & Tayl.)J. Murray was collected from coastalgranite below this spot. Lichens at eastern point Thence I returned to the easternpoint and collected Hchens fromgranite outcrops at and just out fromthe tip. The specimens included twocollections of the orange and yellowXanthoria ectanea (Ach.) Ras. exR. Filson. All the lichens have beenlodged at the National Herbarium ofVictoria (MEL1013734 — 1013742).Only three of the nine collectionscould be determined. Altogether forty-eight plant specieswere recorded for the island and alist is given below (Appendix 1).Other species are likely to occur asonly about an eighth of the island wasexamined. The twenty-two introducedspecies make up forty-six percent ofthe islands flora. Seventeen plantspecimens were obtained and lodgedat the National Herbarium of Vic-toria, Melbourne. All the Doughboy Island plants arewidespread in the Furneaux Groupwhere I have found t

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