BY REV. F. 1!. M. WILSON, KEW, VICTORIA. 11 



Apotliecia fusco-rufous small (1-8-5 m. m. broad) scattered, 

 margins tlialliue, entire, often at length obliterated. Spores 

 colourless, fusiform, 5 septate, 035 x 007 m. m. 



Habitat on trunks of trees and fern trees and on logs, in 

 thickets on Mount Macedon, Victoria. It has not yet been dis- 

 covered elsewhere. The plants generally grow closely crowded 

 together and imbricated, often covering many feet of tree or log 

 with subascending fronds. 



Allied to Stictd vnridlnlis, the juvenile state of this lichen is 

 fruticulose ramose, the branches spreading out in one plane 

 secundo-incurved, the stem and lower side of the branches terete 

 fulvous, tomentose, the upper side plane, smooth, plumbeous, the 

 higher branches slightly dilated, the last divisions extremely 

 minute. Its height is about one inch, and the diameter of the 

 stem about one millimeter. The plumbeous colour is owing to 

 the presence of numerous bluish-green granula gomiiia disposed 

 in a moniliform manner immediately under the upper cortex. 



