The study of Tasmanian conchology has been facilitated

by an excellent catalogue published last year by the late

Prof. Tate and Mr. W. L. May in the Proceedings of the

Linnean Society of New South Wales

Hedley, C

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77NOTES ON TASMANIAN CONCHOLOaY.Bj C. Hedley, P.L.S.(Eead Juue 10th, 1902.)(Issued June 17th, 1902.)(Plate.)The study of Tasmanian conchology has been facilitatedby an excellent catalogue published last year by the lateProf. Tate and Mr. W. L. May in the Proceedings of theLinnean Society of New South Wales. Therein certainspecies ascribed to Tasmania by the Rev. J. E. TenisonWoods were rejected from the fauna chiefly because no laterobserver had taken them. Though apparently of foreignorigin, their exclusion could not be wholly justified untilthat origin was ascertained. At the invitation of Messrs. A.Morfon and W. L. May I undertook their examination.From the result it appears that five West Indian species weresnj^plied to Tenison Woods, which he erroneously describedas Tasmanian, and as new to s^.ience. They are :—Pletjrotoma. WELDIA.NA, T. Woods, Proc. Boy. Soc. Tas.,1876 (1877), p. 137, identical with Brillia fucata, Reeve,Conch. Icon. PL xx., f. 169.Ethalia. tasmanica, T. Woods, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas.,1876 (1877), p. 146, is the common West Indian Modulusmodiihis, Linne,Adeokbis picta, T, Woods, Proc. Eov, Soc. Tas., 1876(1877), p. 146, is Chhrosfomafasciatiis. Born, Woods's typeanswers well to fig. 2a of PL 63 of Fisher's Monograph mthe " Coquilles Vivantes."Astele tuebinata, T. Woods, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., 1876(1877), p. 145, is Chlorostoma scalare, Anton, another well-known West Indian shell.Semele wabbuetoni, T. Woods, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., 1876(1877), p. 158, is Codahia orhicularis, Linne; a commonAutillean speciesAn examination of the type of Tarho cuciillata, Ten.Woods, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas , 1877 (1879), p. 121, shows it tbe T. zadiiitus, Gmelin ; a shell common to tropical Queens-land. Another unrecorded synonym of this appears to beT. pallidus, Perry, Conchology, 1811, PL 49, f. 5.Having inspected the type of Chione macleayna^ T. Woods,Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., 1879, p. 38, I consider it identical withG. stutchhuryij Gray ; a common New Zealand species, andtherefore probably not Tasmanian.Allportia expansa. Ten. Woods, Proc. Roy. Soc, Tas.,1876 (1877), p. 28. At my request Miss Lodder sent mesome examples of this species. The material received cor-78 NOTES ON TASMANIAN CONCHOLOGY.responded exactly to Wood's description, and was, I believe,rightly identified. It is certainly not a mollusc, but aplanarian. My friend, Mr, T. Whitelegge, considered that itis I'Yohablj Polycelis australis, Schmarda. It bad better beexcluded from tlie molluscan catalogue.The existence of the order Heteropoda in Tasmanianwaters has been overlooked by Tate and May. Theoccurrence in Bass Straits of a species of Fie,oboida is notedby Maedonald. Trans. Eoy. Soc, Edinburgh, xxiii., 1862, p.5; pi. i., ff. 1-4.EissoiNA GEETRUDis, Ten. Woods, Pro. Eoy. Soc, 1876.p. 146. This species approaches R. elegantula, Angas ; whetheror not intermediate forms unite these two, I leave to thedecision ot those better acquainted with the species. Theillustration published by Tryon is very bad;possibly it wasbased on a different species. I add a drawing of the typespecimen in the Tasmanian Museum.Ctclostrema weldii, T. Woods. It is generally admittedthat this and C. australe, Angas are synonymus. Tate andMay regard the latter as having priority, but Pritchard andGatliff award it to G. weldii. As a matter of fact, C. weldiiwas published Feb. 27th, 1877, and C. australe on June 1st,1877.Teochtjs eingens, Menke iischer, in the CoquilleYivautes, Troque, 1879, p. 214, notes this species from " HeYan Diemen." It is not included in anj Tasmaniancatalogue.79ISrOTE ON EUCALYPTUS LINEA BIS, D'EB.l^iB.AUBT.(A Supposed Tasmanian Species.)By J. H. Maiden, Director Botauic Gardens, Sydney,Corresponding Member.(Eead July 8th, 1902.)(Issued July 23rd, 1902.)In a paper entitled " The Common Eucalyptus Flora ofTasmania and New South Wales," read by me before theAustralasiau Association for the Advancement of Science atits Hobart meeting last January, I drew attention to a smallsmooth-barked Mount Wellington tree, closely related toEucalyptus amygdcdina, Libill., and considered to be E.Ii7iearis, Dehnhardt.I have recently received for study, from the ImperialNatural History Museum of Vienna, a type specimen ofDehnhardt's species, which is, however, in bud only. Theoriginal label in Dehnhardt's handwriting is in German, ofwhich the following is a translation :—" I pray you read my description in the Catalogue. Thetree is 40ft. high, with a slender stem, and flowers the secondtime."The reference to the '* Cataloiicue" is doubtless to the" Catalogus plantarum horti Camaldulensis," which containsthe description of the species, and which I have given in fullin my paper already referred to. The work in question waspublished at Naples, and I understand the Hortus Camal-dulensis was a garden near that city. The first edition waspublished in 1829, and the second in 1832, and should benoted in case any claims for f)riority arise.Dehnhardt's plant is, without doubt, a cultivated one, andbearing in mind the marked way ia which seedling Eucalyptusplants differ from their parents, it is not likely to be absolutelyidentical with the Mount Wellington plants to which it hasbeen referred. The idea becomes stronger with me thatE. linearis, Dehn., will prove to be a perfectly smooth-barkedform of E. amijgdalina, with unusually thin, linear leaves.If so, this form of E. amygdalina might be named var.U7iearis.My researches in European herbaria in regard to thisgenus has brought to light another named species which iscon-specific with E. linearis. It is E. pulcliella, Desfontaines.The original work not being in any Australian library, Iobtained a copy of the description from Kew. It is asfollows :—" Eucalyptus pulchella, Desf . Eamulis filiformibus , foliisalternis, lineari-subulatis : floribus axillaribus, umbellatis,operculo convexo, mucrone obtuso, brevissimo.80 NOTE ON EUCALYPTUS LINEARIS, DEHNHARDT."Kamuli filiformes, pauiculati. Folia uucias 2 longa,lineam 1 lata, utrinque acuta. Petioli breves. Flores ininnliellulas axillares dispositi. Pedunculus communis foliomultoties brevior, 10-12—florus."(Cat Hort. Paris. Fd._3, 408, 1829.)Delinliardt contracts this description into :—'^Eucalyptus pulcheUa. "Ramulis filiformibas"; foliisalternis lineari-subulatis. Ramulis filiformibus panicularis.Folia uncias 2 longa, linf am I lata."(Dehnb. Cat. PI. Hort Camald. Ed. 2, p. 20.*)Walpers' description, published in 1845, is also adaptedfrom the orisfiual, and is as follows :—" Hamulis filiformib foil, alternis lineari-subulatis, florib.axillarib, umbellatis ; operculo convexo, mucrone obtusobrevissimo.— Crescit ?"(Walpers' Repert. III. 927.)BeDtham perha]>s saw the species, but he pronounces it tobe " very doubtful"I have recently received some specimens from the ViennaEerbarium labelled '' E. pulcheUa, Hort., Kew." They arein bud, and are identical with E. linearis, Dehn.Undoubtedly the WdTaQ pudcliella was well bestowed, for thespecimens h;ive especially long, narrow, liiiear leave.', whichare very graceful.The upshot of my investiga^tion is that:—E. linearis, Dehnbardt, and E. p)'^'^cliella., Desfontaines, arespecifically identical. Both were named from plants raisedin Europe. In my Australasian Association for the Advance-ment of Science paper I have put forth a plea for a finalinvestigation by Tasmanian botanists as to whether a certainMount Wellington tree is identical with E. linearis, Dehnh.,and, if so, whether it is con-specific with E, amygdalina,Labill.* III mv A.A.A.S. Taper I quote E. imlchella, and aLso E. ruhricauUs, as theyfollcnv Dehnhaidt'.s description of E. linearis. My identification of E. ptdchella isgiven below. I have also seen E. rubricaulift, Desf., -which is not [identical withE. linearis, and may not be a Eucalyptus at all.

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