The Lichoi.s of Victoria. 175 



4. B. fuujjoides, Ach. 



Thallus whitish, granulose, margin of granules spreading, 

 thin, continuous. Apothecia roseo carneous or albo carneous, 

 sub-globose, or globoso elavate, or cliff ormi clavate, moderate 

 or large (2 to 4 mm. broad) ; stipe long (-i to 8 mm.), whiter 

 or nearly white, subterete. Spores oblong or fusiform, 

 simple, -Oil to •023 x -0035 mm. Paraphyses slender. 



Halx on earth, chiefly clay, in mountain regions, Otway 

 Ranges, Black Spur, Warburton, Mt. Lookout, (A. F. Wilson). 



Probably a variety of B. roseu.^, growing in a warmer 

 climate, as Tuckerman suggests. When not well developed 

 it approaches the previous species. 



5. B. heteromorjjltiis, Nyl. 



Thallus pallido glaucescent or pallido cinerascent, verrucoso 

 unequal, forming large patches. Apothecia pale carneous, 

 or carneo fuscescent, -5 to 1 mm. broad, margin thick, 

 undulate, obtuse, stipe 1 to 2'5 mm. high, variously 

 compressed or plicate, often two to six or more apotliecia 

 on one stipe. Spores vety transparent, nearly indistinct, 

 ellipsoid, simple, 01 x "006 mm. Thall. and Apoth.K. + C — . 



Hab. on cla}^ ground, m<3sses, dead leaves, &c., in 

 mountain regions. Black Spur, Mt. Macedon, Warburton. 

 Otway Ranges, Lilydale, Mt. Buffalo (A. F. Wilson). 



6. B. squamarioides, '!:iy\. = Kni;/htiella leucoco lya = 

 K. squamarioides, Mull. Arg. 



Thallus albo or albido glaucescent, subopacjue, squamosa, 

 sfjuamse difformed, about 5 mm. broad, affixed (forming 

 small patches about an inch wide), lobate or lobato incised, 

 plane or somewhat depressed in the centre, concolorous 

 beneath or whiter. Apothecia lurid or pale lurid or lurido 

 carneus, "2 to "3 mm. broad, biatorine, plane, margin thickish, 

 evanescent. Spores oblong or fusiformi oblong, uniseptate. 



Hab. on earth, Mt. William (D. Sullivan). Mull. Lich. 

 Beitr., 1888, No. 13, p. 8. 



7. B. FreRchlamis, Mull. Arg. 



Thallus squamose ; squama3 Ctuspitose, crowded, broad, 

 inciso lobate ; lobes ascending, crenulate or entire, olivaceous 

 above, white beneath, bearing podetia here and there upon 



