146 TASMANIAN LICHENS. 



1. B. roseus, Pers., var. fimgoides, Acli., whitish, granulose,. 

 margin of granules spreading, thin, continuous (K. faint 

 yellow). Apothecia roseo carneous or albo carneous, sub- 

 globose or globoso clavate or deformi clavate, 2 to 4 mm. 

 broad (K. orange). Stipe 4 to 8 mm. long, whiter, subterete. 

 Spores oblong or fusiform, simple, 'Oil to '023 x '0035 mm. 

 Paraphyses slender. 



Hab. on earth (chiefly clay) in mountainous regions. Hook. 

 Fl. Tasm.; Mount Wellington (and Basfow and Weymouth). 



2. B . hetero)norphus,'^j\., pallido glaucescent or pallido cine- 

 ra«5cent, verrucoso unequal, forming large patches. Apothecia 

 pale carneous or carneo fuscescent, '5 to 1 mm. high, variously 

 compromised or plicate, often 2 to 6 or more conglomerated on 

 one stipe. Spores very transparent, ellipsoid, simple, -01 x 

 •006 mm. (Thai, and Ap. K. + C.-). 



Hab. on clay, mosses, dead leaves, etc., in mountainous 

 regions, Oldfield, Guiin, Cheshunt, Archer^ Hook Fl. Tasm.; 

 Nyl.; Tasman Peninsula and St. Crispin's (and Weyinoutli)^ 

 Mount Wellington (and Basfow) ; Ulverstone. 



3. B. squmnarioides, l^jl. = ParmeIia splachnirima, Tayl.= 

 Blacodium sijlachnirimum, T-djl.=:Bceomyces splachnirimuSf 

 Mitten = Knightiella leiicocarpum, Miill. Arg, = Knightiella, 

 squamarioiies, Miill. Arg., albo or albido glaucescent, sub- 

 opaque, squamose, squamae difformed, about '5 mm. broad, 

 affixed, forming small patches about 1 inch wide, lobate or 

 lobato incised, plane or somewhat depressed in the centre, 

 concolourous beneath or whiter. Apothecia lurid or pale 

 lurid or lurido carneous, -2 to -3 mm. broad, biatorine, plane, 

 margin thickish, evanescent. Spores oblong or ellipsoid or 

 fusiform, uniseptate or simj)le. 



Hab. on earth among lesser jungermanniae, Gunn, Stuart, 

 Hook. L.J. Bot.; Hook. Fl. Tasm.; Nyl. 



3. Cladonia. 



Thallus foliaceous, laciniiform, with jDodetia generally 

 dilated at apex into scyphi, and generally foliolose or squamu-. 

 lose at the base, or thallus sometimes granuloso crustaceous. 

 Apothecia variously coloured, seldom nigricant. Spores, 

 small, oblong. 



Subgenus Cladonia. 



Thallus foliaceous or squamose. 



I. Apothecia fuscous or fuscescent. 



A. ScypfiopJiorus.- 



1. C. alcicornisj Flk., macrophylline, spreading, bluish grey 

 or yellowish green above, white or whitish beneath, laciniae 



