BY REV. F. R. M. WILSON. l?? 



Var. lychnea, Ach., orange coloured, pulvinate, crowded 

 rotundo squamulose, adscendenti imbricate, margins granu- 

 loso pulverulent or lacero dissect. Apothecia margin entire, 

 pulverulent. 



Hab. Domain, Hobart. 



11. Physcia, '^j^, 



Tliallus laciuiate, usually stellato orbicular. Apothecia 

 lecaaorioe, nigricant. Spores fuscous, 1 septate. 



1. P. speciosa, Wulf., white or albo cinerascent, stellato 

 laciuiate, lacinise narrow, multifid, plane, sub-imbricate, some- 

 wbat ascending at the apices, under surface plane, albo 

 floculose, rbizinse and marginal cilise whitish. Medulla Ky 

 Gj. Apothecia fuscous, margin sub-entire or crenulate, 

 incurved. Spores '025 to '036 x '012 to '017 mm. 



Hab. Hmpe.; Krplh.; Mount Wellington, 



F. sorediata. 



Hab. Brown's Eiver. 



2. P. comosa, Nyl, white or albo cinerascent or albo glau- 

 cescent, laciniato divided, lacinise rather short, ascending, 

 cilise scattered and on margin, under surface pure white. 

 Apothecia csesio pruinose, 3 to ev^en 13 mm. wide, elevated, 

 receptacle podicellate, sprinkled with cilise, margin thin and 

 broad. Spores '024 to -03 X -012 to '017 mm. 



Hab. B. V. M., Vic. Nat., 1887, Oct. 



3. P. stellaris, L., white or albo glaucescent, orbicular, stellari 

 appressed,lacini8emultifld,contiguous,sub-corticallyalbomacu- 

 late, under surface whitish, with concolorous or fuscescent or 

 nigricant fibrillge. Med. K yellow C — . Apothecia fuscous 

 black or black, naked or csesio pruinose, margin entire or 

 obsoletely crenulate. Spores oblong, cells nucleated, '016 to 

 •024 X -008 to -Oil mm. 



Hab. on trees, St. Mary's, Launceston. 



4. P. astroidea, Clem., greyish white, orbicular, thin, closely 

 appressed, almost entirely granulose or leprose, laciniato 

 effigurate at the circumference. Med. Ky Cy. Apothecia 

 fuscous black, naked or pruinrose. Spores elliptico oblong, 

 cells nucleated, -017 to '026 x "008 to -Oil mm. 



Hab. on trees, St. Mary's Pass. 



6. Physcia pida, Sw., whi'e or whitish, appressed, orbicular, 

 lacinise plane, sub-imbricate, contiguous or sub-coiifluent, 

 narrow, variously crenate, under surface black, nude, opaque, 

 but at extreme edge whitish. Apothecia black, 'plane, small. 



