T1IK LICHEN FLORA OF QUKKNSLANP, 



and sometimes the apothecia are thic kly beset " Voyage 

 of Novara. 



** Pseudocyphelhe yellow. 



7. S. gilva Thun. 



Thallus pale reddish-brown, or pale flesh-coloured, margin 

 paler, stiff, shining ; dividing from no given centre and 

 with no main stems ; mealy white at edges, fracture white ; 

 lobes few, broad, transversely reticulate, ending in blunt 

 lobules, with 2 — 3 terminal teeth. Under surface salmon- 

 coloured at edges, finely tomentose, tomentum of central 

 Sn. portions of lobules silvery grey, of central portions of 

 thallus dark-brown. Pseudoscyphelhe yellow, small, sunk 

 in the tomentum. Apothecia marginal, when young with 

 pale margin and concave disk, when mature with dark red 

 sinuate disk and margin obscured, Spores fusiform, 1- 

 septate, with a large nucleus in each loculus, epispore 

 moderately thick, -<)27 x '008 m.m. ; paraph vses coarse, 

 simple, witli clavate tips. 



S crocata v. gilva Ach., S. impressa Hook. 

 S Gai.dichaudii Del., 8. ervthroscypha Tayl. 



Ho}).— On bark of trees Main Range. 



8. 8. crocata L. 



Thallus membranaceous-coriaceous, upper surface lurid 

 yellowish-green or brownish, opaque or shining, rotundate- 

 lobate, crenate, besprinkled with bright lemon-coloured 

 soredia especially towards the margins, fracture white or 

 yellow-white ; lower surface brownish-nigricant, tomen- 

 Sn«, tose ; margins fringed with microphylline iaciniae, pul- 

 verulent, yellow ; cyphelhe Hat. Apothecia scattered, 

 brownish-black, thalline border crenate, at length excluded; 

 spores 8, oblong-fusiform, 1 - septate, '010 — 027 x 

 •008—01 m.m. 



Syn. — S. citrina Peru., 8. fuliginosa Jf< ok., S. uliginosa 

 v, Ach. 



Hah. — On prostrate trunks of living trees in the Rose- 

 wood Scrub. 



