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NEW SPECIES OF PARMELIA FROM VICTORIA. 



A DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OE 

 PARMELIA FROM VICTORIA. 



BY 



CHARLES KNIGHT, F.R.C.S.,F.L.S., Wellington, New 



Zealand. 



(Communicated by F. M. Bailey, F.L.S.) 

 (Read on the 8th August, 1884). 

 (Plate xvi. Fig. i.) 



The following is a diagnosis of a new and curious Lichen, 

 collected by Miss Campbell on Mount Kosciusco, Victoria : — 



Parmelia Campbellii, C. Knight (Sp. Nov.) Thallus sordide 

 cinerens rigidus laciniatus everniceformis suhtus niger nudus 

 laciniis linear ibics convexis, convexis creherrime rugoso — granu- 

 latis (granulis in centra punctatis) marginihus non afris. 

 Apothecia maxivia (latit demum circa 13 m.m.) ventricoso — cyatlio 

 joria dilata badio —rufescentia, receptaculo lacimo — rugoso, hasi 

 podicellato, paniphysibus articulatis crassiusculis adglutinatis. 

 Sporce in ascis saccatis parvce simplices rotundce vel .mbovatoe 

 incolores, latit. 0.005 m m. 



Legit Flora M. Campbell, Mount Kosciusco, Victoria. F. M. 

 Bailey, communicavit. 



Allied to Parmelia physodes var. mundata Nyl. 



Explanation of Plate XVI. 



Fig. 1, section of minute portion of apothecium. 



(a) hymenium. 



(b) liypothecium. 



(c) gonidial layer. 



(d) medullary layer. 



(e) gonidial layer (cortex). 



