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4. «S\ fenerum, Laur. 



Thallus palo or whitish, terete, slender, ver}' much 

 branched, branches tine and intricate. Apothecia small ("I 

 to 2 mm.) on the jirimary branches : thalline receptacle 

 persistent, only slightly dilated. Spores nigricant, or 

 smeared with a friable nigricant pigment. Diam. 'OOT to 

 •008 mm. (Nyl.) 



Ki-emp., in Verhandl. Zool. Bot. Gesells., in Wien, 1880, 

 p. 329. According to Prof. J. Mueller (in Ratishoii Flora, 

 1887, No. 8), a specimen from Mt. Ellery is rightly deter- 

 mined, but specimens from Black Spur and Yarra Yarra are 

 Gladina aggregata. 



Series 2.— Cladodpzi. 



Thallus generally erect. Apothecia terminal on podetia, 

 rarely sessile ; biatorine, rarely lecanorine. Spores 8, 

 colourless, usuallj- oblong and simple, sometimes elongate 

 and septate. Pai-aphyses distinct. 



Tribe 3.— B^omycei. 



Thallus horizontally expanded, crustaceous. Apothecia 

 pale or rufescent, sessile or podetiiformi stipitate. Spores 

 simple or septate. 



Genus 1. — Gomphillus, Nyl. 



Thallus very thin, consisting of gonidia and filaments 

 irregularl}- conglutinated. Apothecia stipitate, small, 

 corneous. Spores filiform, multiseptate. Paraphyses in- 

 distinct. 



1. G. hceomyceoides, Wilson = Patelkiria Wihoui, 

 Mull. Arg.* 



Thallus cinereous or virescent, effuse, either very thin and 

 somewhat shining, or rather thicker and eroso isidioso 

 granulate. Gonidia various in size and form, conglomerated 

 into gelatinous globules. Apothecia of a tenacious horny 

 texture, biatorine, sometimes margined by the white hypo- 

 thecium, scattered or conglomerated, depresso globose, to 

 1*5 mm. diam., smooth, rufo fulvescent, pale when 5T)ung, 



* Lich. Beitr., in Flora 1888, No. 1435. 



