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THE LICHEN FLORA OF QUEENSLAND, 



Syn. — S subsinuosa f. lutescens Krph. 



11. S. tomentella Humb. 



Thallus stiff, ashy-pale or lurid cervine, drying red-buff to 

 chocolate colour, darkest at margins, subnionophyllous, 

 rotund ate -lobate, in parts mealy ; under surface pallid, white 

 tomentose, sparingly dotted with whitish cyphellse of various 

 L, sizes. Apothecia red-brown, 1*5 — 2*5 m.m. ; margin thin, 

 entire, white ciliate ; spores fusiform, 1 — 3 septate, *025 — 

 •035 x -007— -008 m.m. 



Hab. — On trees and rocks near water, Hill End, Ithaca 

 Creek and Rosewood. 



12. S. sub to men tell a C. K. 



Thallus a light rich brown above, smooth, with flat lobes 

 slightly imbricating, ending in broad rounded lobules with- 

 out lacinias ; below from black-brown to colour of surface, 

 velvety, sprinkled over with large, round, oval or angular 

 white cyphella?. Apothecia 1*5 — 2 m.m., concolorous then 

 darker; margin thin, entire ; spores narrow, elongate-fusi- 

 K. form, straight or curred, apices acute, '04 — '055 x -009 — 

 •014 m.m. ; paraphyses with dilated tips. 



" Differs from S. tomentosa in the apothecia being scattered 

 never marginal, and the lobes of the thallus non-laciniate ; 

 from S. tomentella in the surface of the thallus being eminently 

 smooth and free from all irregularities, the cyphellre per- 

 fectly white, and the spores elongate-fusiform." Dr. Knight 

 in lit. F. M. 13. 



Hab. — On trunks of tiees Mt. Mistake. 



13. S. rutilan* Stirton. 



Thallus spreading (4 — Tin.), shining, thick, with rounded 

 lobes bearing rounded lacinice, reddish or pale cinnamon 

 red ; beneath cinnamon or copper-coloured with black 

 Sn. tomentum ; cyphelhe somewhat large, widtli about 1*5 m.m., 

 thelotremoid, cinnamon-brown or reddish. Apothecia few, 

 red-brown, 1 — 2 m.m., with thalline receptacle roughened 

 beneath, palely ciliate, especially the young ones which are 



