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Licea c>/lindrica, Fr. S. M., iii., 195 (1829); Eng. Fl., v. 391 ; 

 Cooke Hdbk., No. 1193. 



Licea 'tricolor, Zoll. in Flora (1847) p. 300. 

 Tubulina conglobata, Preuss. Liuiisea, 140 (1851). 



Genus 27. LINDBLADIA. Fr. 



^Ethalium naked, composed of numerous irregularly polygonal 

 minute sporangia, with the walls grown together ; surface to the 

 extremities of the sporangia warted. Rtfki. Mon., 223. 



65. Lindbladia effusa. (Ehb.) 



^Ethaliuni naked, seated on a common, strongly-developed hypo- 

 thallus ; cortex when prematurely dessicated black, thick, brown, 

 lustrous, with the surface rough ; mass of spores brown-ochre or 

 timber ; spores bright-coloured, smooth, *0058-'0072 mm. diani. 

 Rtfki. Mon., 223. 



On the ground, &c. 



Licea effusa, Ehr. Sylv., p. 26, f. 1 (1818). 

 ^Ethalium meltsnum, Chev. Byss., iii. (1837). 

 Lindbladia tubulina, Fr. S. V. S., 449 (1849). 

 jEtlialium atrum, Preuss. Linnea, 141 (1851). 

 Reticularia maxima, Corda. Ic., vi., 35 (1852). 

 Reticularia granulosa, (Erst. MSS. 



Lindbladia effusa, Kostfki. Mon., p. 123 (1875) ; B. & Br. Ann. 

 N. Hist., No. 1605 ; Grevillea, v., p. 13. 



Family 13. CLATHROPTYCHIACE.E. 



^Ethalium comprising numerous sporangia, either cylindrical, 

 standing in a compact stratum, or else globose with several in a 

 stratum, the walls regularly perforated. Rtfki. Mon., 224. 



Genus 28. CLATHROPTYCHIUM. R. 



Sporangia not stipitate, closely seated on a common substratum ; 

 walls with the external apex alone permanent, campanulate, united 

 by a few simple threads which cross over from the apex to the base. 

 RtfkL Mon., 225. 



66. Clathroptychium rugulosum. (Wall.) 



Hypothallus strongly developed ; sporangia bell-shaped at the 

 apex, attached to the base by six simple, permanent, triangular 

 threads ; colour of the sethaliuni variable, red-brown or ochrey- 

 brown, now and then olive by reflection ; mass of spores ochre or 

 ochrey-brown ; spores delicately warted, -0083--01 mrn. diam. 

 Rtfki. Mon., 225. 



On dead twigs, &c. (Figs. 25, 28, 29, 30.) 



