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5. L. philorJienma, Wilson. 



Thallus more or less obscui-ely plumbeo cinereous oi- 

 brown, very thin, to | inch wide, sub-ascending, lobate, 

 plicato undulate ; margin crenate, sinuate and crisped. 

 Apothecia small (1 to I'o mm.), disk more or less obscurely 

 rufous, sometimes black, concave or plane ; thalline margin 

 entire, thick, rounded, elevated, at length thin, equal. 

 Spores ovate, 3 septate, and also longitudinally divided, 

 •01 o X -007 mm. 



Hab. on mosses and rocks in the channels of stream^;, 

 Curdie's Creek, Lome, Tallarook. 



Named by Dr. Knight as L. dactylinum, and so reported 

 by me (Trans. Lin. Soc. 1890). 



6. L. victorianwin, Wilson. 



Thallus obscurely plumbeous, here and there rufo-fuscous, 

 under surface nearly concolorous or sub-cinerascent, large 

 (3 inches or more diam.), more or less confusedly rugulose, 

 rotundo lobate, lobes undulate, firm, but in old lobes thick 

 and occasionally fusco-furfuraceous, as if deprived of cortex, 

 sometimes clothed with squamules. Apothecia moderate, 

 sometimes rather large I'ufous oi- . fusco-rufous, thalline 

 margin sometimes excluded, more generally plicate or 

 granulate or briefly laciniate. Spores ovoideo fusiform, 

 often acuminate at the apices, typically three septate, often 

 with the central locules longitudinally or obliquely divided, 

 •013 to "017 X "OOo to •00() mm. Granula goniraa moniliform. 



Hab. among mosses, on trees and rocks abundantly, Mt. 

 Macedon, Black Spur, Cobden, Sandiingham (one specimen), 

 Warburton, Korumburra. 



Allied to L.cklovomelum, Sw., and perhaps a variety of it. 



7. L. pliyUocarpum, Pers. var. dwdaleum, Flot. 



Thallus fusco i)lumbeous, here and there pallido plumbeous, 

 fii'm. lobate, lai'ge (three or four 'n. diameter), longitudinally 

 and very closely undulato rugose, or finely and acutely 

 corrugate, under surface paler. Apothecia dark rufous, 

 often large, thalline margin thick, densely corrugato rugulose, 

 spores ellipsoid, attenuate at each apex, five septate, and 

 also longitudinally divided, -03 to 034 x 012 to -015 mm. 

 (Nyl.) 



