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

Arthur Henry Shakespeare Lucas  (1853–1936)
Alternative names	A.H.S.Lucas; Arthur Henry Shakespeare Luras; A. H. S. Lucas
Description	British botanist and entomologist
Date of birth/death	7 May 1853	10 June 1936
Location of birth/death	Stratford-upon-Avon	Albury
Authority file	: Q2865141 VIAF: 3802231 ISNI: 0000000084178738 LCCN: n81111921 Botanist: A.H.S.Lucas Open Library: OL4506631A WorldCat

Francis George Allman Barnard  (1857–1932)
	Alternative names	Birth name: Francis George Allman Barnard; Barnard; F. G. A. ‎Barnard; Francis Barnard
	Description	Australian-British naturalist, pharmacist, politician, editor and cricketer
	Date of birth/death	1857 / 26 December 1857	1932 / 2 June 1932 / 1 June 1932
	Location of birth/death	Melbourne	Melbourne
	Authority file	: 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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