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19. L. pulmonacea, Ach. 



Thallus membran iceous-cartilaginous, green, pallid-cervine 

 or dull-brown, strongly reticulate-fovcolate, laciniate-lobate, 

 sinuate, truncate, surface smooth not shining, strongly 

 veined ; under surface rust-coloured with yellow-brown to 

 black hypothalline threads, reticulate-tomento ; e, bullate ; 

 lobes few, broad, terminating in few blunt laciniae : soredia 

 white, small. Spermagonia as pustules at the edges of the 

 laciniae, minute, brown, punctiform as seen -mi the thalline 

 L. surface, body immersed as a solid and com; aratively large 

 hard whitish kernel, easily enucleated. Apothecia red-brown, 

 marginal, margin rugulose, crennla'e ; spores colourless, 

 cblong-fusiform, 1—3 septate, -02 — -028 x -005 — -008 m.m. 

 Gel. hym. with iodine deep blue. 



Syn. — Sticta pulmonacea, Ach. ; Sticta pulmonaria, Schaer. 



Hab. — On trunks of trees, Mount Mistake, Tambourine 

 Mountain, Maroochie, and Cunningham's Gap. 



v. papillaria. 



Thallus as in the type, but the margins here and there 

 isidiose. In the place of apothecia are produced tubercular 

 M cephalodia of testaceous or obscure colour ; these are simple 

 or small and aggregated. 



Hab - — Toowoomba. 



III. — Sticta. 



Stratum of granules green or yellow green ; granules (true 

 gonidia) with a cellular membrane. 



* Cyphella? thelotremoid or urceolate — Eusticta?. 



20. S. subvariabilis, Nyl. 



Thallus attached to bark by central point, shining, smooth, 

 bright glaucous grey, spreading, laciniate-lobate, lacinia? free, 

 sub-erect ; under surface a pale fleshy pink, margins bare, 

 K. central part with short snuff-brown tomentum. Lobation 

 free, often dichotomous, terminal lacinuhe narrow-linear, 

 generally furcate with blunt or rounded tips ; lateral lacinuhe 



