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open and subradiatelj proliferous, ultimate ramuli infuscate 

 at apices, with one to four fuscous points. Apotbecia shortly 

 stipitate, brown, margin reflexed. 



Hab. on rocks and earth, St. Patrick's, Hook. Fl. Tasm,; 

 Mount Wellington, Knockloftv, Mount Arthur; S. Esk at 

 Launceston, and Maria Island, Bastow. 



II. Apothecia red. 



17. C cornucopioides, L., albido flavescent or cinereo 

 virescent, squamose or squamulose, squamae lobiform, crenate 

 or crenato incised ; podetia glabrous, often granuloso unequal 

 or squamuloso exasperate, ^in. to lin. high, scyphophorous, 

 scyphi regular, sometimes proliferous. Apothecia bright 

 scarlet, sessile or podicellate on margin of scyphi, often con- 

 fluent. 



Hab. Laure7ice, Asbestos Hills, Gunn, Mount Wellington, 

 Oldfield, Hook. Fl. Tasm.; Krplh. revis., Mull., Arg.; Mount 

 Wellington (and Bastow). 



Var. Tasmanica, Wilson, = C. deforniis, var. Tasmanica^ 

 Krplhb. = C. cornucopioides Mull., Arg. Flora, 1887, No. 8 ; 

 thallus foliaceons or evanescent, folioles sometimes large, lobate 

 and crenate or laciniate, variously divided, podetia cyathiform 

 or ascyphous, extended, sometimes proliferous or branched, 

 lower half verucoso corticate, generally squamulose, upper 

 half covered with depressed granules ; the podetia, folioles 

 and squamules at first light green, gradually growing fusco 

 flavid upwards, especially at the base of the podetia and the 

 nnder-surface of the folioles, the upper part of the podetium 

 becoming a deep yellow. Apothecia conglomerate on 

 margin of scyphus or apex of podetium. 



Hab. on earth, fern trees, and decaying logs. Krplhb. in hb. 

 Melb. Bot. Mus. (with name and description in his writing) ; 

 Mount Wellington (and Bastow). 



F. arrosa, Wilson, podetia truncated, the margin of the 

 scyphi thickened so as to reduce the mouth almost to a 

 point. Apothecia minute. 



Hab. on decayed logs. Mount Wellington. 



F. sub-macilenta, Wilson, differs from C. macilenia in the 

 base of the podetia and the folioles being flavid. 



Hab. on decaying logs, Mount Wellington, Ulverstone. 

 Similar to Nylander's C. angiistata, which, however, has 

 Tirescent squamae and sulphureous podetia. 



18. C. intermedia, Krplhb. Dr. Story in hb., Melb. Bot. Mus. 



19. C. deformis, Hffm., podetia sulphureous, pulverulent, 

 folioles at base pallide virescent, incised, crenate, beneath 



