BY JOHN SHIRLEY, B.SC. 



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almost entirely enclosed in the excipulum. Spores 8, un- 

 coloured or pale-brownish, 1-septate, fusiform, '027 — -033 

 x -007 — *009 m.m. Gonimia globular, width about -005 

 m.m. L>r. S., Troc. Roy. Soc. Vie., Sept., 1880. 



Hab. — On bark near Brisbane. 



14. S. eyphellulata J. Muell ? 



Thallus pale, shining, silvery colour. Apotheeia pale 

 M. orange. 



Hab. — Bellenden Ker Range. 



15. S. limbata Sic. 



Thallus membranaceous, monophyllous, shining, blue grey 

 or cervine-rufescent, with roughened blackish patches from 

 erumpent scredia, margins rotundate-sinnate, densely and 

 copiously caesio-sorediate : below pallid, with short, rather 

 K. coarse, white tomentum, Cyphella? 1 m.m. in diameter, 

 sunk, white, plano-concave, smooth. Apotheeia not seen. 

 The so-called cephalodia which sometimes occur on its 

 thallus are the production of the parasitic lichen Lecilea 

 Paimeliarum. 



Hab. — Mt. Mistake, on tree trunks. 



**** Cvphell«e true — thallus stipitate. 

 1G. S. marginifera, Tayl. 



C;espitose, in small tufts forming sub-erect cup-like masses, 

 thallus dull leaden coloured, surface smooth, shining, centre 

 of frond cbsely black-punctate, oblong-lobate, lobes with 

 margins here and there lobuliferous ; below yellow-biown 

 Sn. to dark brick red, towards the base costate, stipitate. The 

 typieal specimen under observation had minute apotheeia 

 but no spores. Cyphella? small, with lighter edges, truly 

 thelotremoid. 



Syn. — S. filicina v. marginifera, .]/;?/. 



Uab. — Eno^gpra, Tambourine Mt., Mt. Mistake, on trees. 



17. S. filicina, Ath. 



Thallus pale yellow to lurid-brown, smooth, more or less 



