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3. ^S'. coralloides, Pers., pallid or whitish, sometimes lurid, 

 ramulose, terete. Apothecia in globose receptacles irregularly 

 dehiscent above, 2 mm. or more in diameter. Spores '009 to 

 •015 mm. 



Hab. in mountainous regions on stones and trunks of trees. 

 Brown, Cr.; Cheshunt, Archer, Hook. Fl. Tasm. ; Nyl,; 

 Krplh.; Mount Wellington (and Weymouth), Mount Arthur. 



4. 8. tenerum, Laur., pallid or white, terete, much branched, 

 slender, 2 to 3 inches high, with filiform intricate branches. 

 Apothecia 1 to 2 mm. diam., on primary branches or axes, 

 soon denuded of thalline receptacle, which is persistent at 

 margin of base. Spores nigricant, 007 to '008. mm. 



Hab. on trees and earth on mountains, Cheshunt, Archer, on 

 Fagus, St. Patrick River, Gufui, Hook. PI. Tasm. ; Krplh ; 

 Tasman Peninsula, Weymouth, Mount Arthur, Mount 

 Wellington. 



Series II. Cladodei. 

 Thallus generally erect. Apothecia terminal on podetia, 

 rarely sessile on thallus, biatorine, rarely lecanorine. Spores 

 8, colourless, usually oblong and simple, sometimes elongate 

 and septate. 



Genus I. Gomphillus, Nyl., Wilson. 



Ihallus very thin, consisting of gonidia and filaments 

 irregularly conglutinated. Apothecia small, stipitate by 

 constriction of the hypothecium, of a most tenacious, horny 

 texture. Spores 8, filiform, very long, multiseptate, in 

 cylindrical thecse, Paraphyse, not discrete. 



1. G. hcBomyceoides, Wilson = Patellaria Wilsoni, Midi., Arg,, 

 Lich., Beit. 1435, cinereous or virescent, effuse, very thin and 

 somewhat shining, or thicker and eroso isidioso granulate. 

 Gonidia various in form and size, conglomerated into 

 gelatinous sacs. Apothecia of tenacious, horny texture, 

 biatorine, sometimes margined by the white hypothecium, 

 scattered or conglomerated, depresso globose, to 1*15 mm. 

 diam., smooth, ruf© fulvescent, pale when young and dark 

 in age, sub-sessile or stipitate, stipe to '5 mm. high and '5 mm. 

 thick, with sometimes 2 or 3 capitula on one stipe. Spores 8 

 in cylindrical thecae, aciculari filiform, about '14 mm. long, 

 pluriseptate. 



Hab. on roots and trunks of trees, on mosses and bark, on 

 jungermannia and lichens, also on dead leaves, etc., on the 

 earth, Mount Arthur. 



2. B^omyces, Pers. 

 Thallus crustaceous, powdery, granulose, or squamulose. 

 Apothecia biatorine, ^sessile or stipitate. 



