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narrow, palmato inultifid, inciso crenulate at apex, margins 

 with black fibres. Podetia springing from upper surface of 

 lacinise, margins of scypbi cristate. Apothecia rufescent. 

 Hab. on dry heathy ground, Stuart^ Hampe. Doubtful. 



2. C. ceratophylla, Sw., pale glaucescent or flavido palles- 

 cent, laciniose, lacinise profoundly divided, margin undulate 

 or crenato incised, albid beneath. Podetia attenuate, oftea 

 subulate and sterile, decorticate, white or whitish, springing 

 from the laciniae, scyphi narrow or scarcely any. Apothecia, 

 pallescent or sub-fuscous. Spores not seen. This plant is 

 smaller than C. alcicornis and is like a large-leaved C. fim- 

 hriata. 



Hab. B.v. m. Vic. Nat. Oct., 1887. 



3. C. pyxidata, Fr., squamulose, ashy green. Podetia carti- 

 laginous, corticate, verrucose, or coarsely granulato pulvera- 

 ceous or scaly downwards. Scyphi cyathiform, more or less 

 proliferous. 



Hab. on earth, Gunn, Oldfield, Hook. Fl. Tasni.; Stuarty 

 Hampe ; Simson ; New Town Falls and Huon-road and 

 Launceston, Bastow; Mount Arthur, Mount Wellington, 

 Brown's Eiver ; Port Arthur, Weymouth. 



Var. 1. pityrea, Ach., podetia pulverulento granuloso fur- 

 furaceous, ashy white, smooth and decorticate and often 

 ribbed or laciniose in the upper part. 



Hab. Brown's River, Mount Wellington, Lilydale, Mount 

 Arthur; Launceston, and New Town Falls, Bastow; Port 

 Arthur, Weymouth. 



Var. 2, chlorophcea, Flk., podetia pulverulent, granules 

 coarser at the base, sulphury yellow. 

 Hab, Mount Wellington. 



Var. 3, fimhriata, Hffm., thallus white, squamulose, podetia 

 membranaceo corticate, deliquescing into a fine impalpable 

 white powder, sometimes scaly from the base upwards. 



Hab. Asbestos Hills, Gunn, Mount Wellington, Oldfield, 

 .Southport, Stuart, Hook. Fl. Tasm.; Krplhb.; Mount Well- 

 • ington and New Town Falls and Launceston and Huon-road, 

 Bastow. 



This variety ocours in Tasmania under the following 

 forms : — 



jP. radiata, Sehreb., podetia irregularly scyphophorous and 

 radiato fimbriate, with divided margin, or podetia simple, 

 cornute. 



F. antilopcea, Duby, podetia extended, slender, tapering 

 upwards, and arcuate* with minute scyphi. 



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