‘85 
a thalline stratum for ‘5 mm. from base ; -perithecium about the apical 
part as if operculiform, everywhere fulvescent-pallid; spores 8, 
‘045 x ‘002-0035 mm., 12-16-locular. 
Hab.: Bellenden-Ker, on bark. 
CLATHROPORINA, J.M. 
C.desquamans, J.1/. Thallus olivaceous, thin, smooth or smooth- 
ish, finally readily desquamescent ; apothecia large, emergent from 
thalline protuberances, but towards the base sloping into the thallus, 
apex entire ; ostiolum fulvous, at length fusco-nigrescent; perithecium 
pallid; spores 8, -06-'075 x -016-'022 mm., fusiform, parenchymatous. 
Hab.: Sankey’s Scrub, on bark, J. F. Shirley. 
C. flavescens, J.M. Thallus albid-flavescent, thin, closely rugose 
and also rugulose, easily desquamescent ; apothecia in irregular, rugose 
or rugulose, unequal, thick, thalline prominences, little distinct from 
the thallus, and not constricted below ; perithecium pallid ; spores 8, 
‘07-08 x ‘013-016 mm. parenchymatous. 
Hab. : Brookfield, on bark, Field Naturalists. 
PYRENULA, J.M. 
P, hitidans, J.M. Thallus fuscescent-pallid or whitish, very thin, 
levigate; apothecia at length semi-emergent, thalline-clothed, fusco- 
nigricant ; perithecium subglobose, base thin ; paraphyses capillary, 
easily separating ; asci (4-) 8-spored ; spores brown, ‘028-033 mm. 
long, oblong-ellipsoid, at both extremities obtusely and subapically 
acute, loculi 4, rhomboid, almost equal. 
Hab, : Bellenden-Ker, on bark. 
P. Melaleuca, J.M. Thallus white, very thin, continuous, levi- 
Hab. Brookfield, on bark, Field Naturalists. 
P. nigr 0-cincta, J.1/. Thallus fusco-olivaceous, finally cupreo- 
fuseou uous i 
: 
8, very thin, smooth and contin o reticulate-rimose ; 
apg not angulose-produced; spores 8, 1-seriate, brown, regu- 
¥ 4locular, -012--015 x -006--007 mm. 
Hab. Brookfield, on bark, Field Naturalists. 
ANTHRACOTHECIUM, J.M. 
- Culatum, JI. Thallus flavescent-pallid very thin, con- 
Tom, levigate ; apothecia semi-emergent from thalline prommences 
~ ‘Dm A 
into th m. wide; these papilla are hemispherical, the base epreading 
black; © thallus, levigate ; the apical part of the apothecia nude, 
Ocul aah convex, 5 mm. wide, the centre umbilicate impressed, nigro- 
ate the apical depression and the part surrounding it also blackish ; 
rg tectum globose, complete, black; spores brown, 1-4 in aseus, 
yd 022-027 mm., §-locular, laxly parenchymatous. 
Hab, ; Brookfield, on bark, Field Naturalists. 
