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THE LICHEN FLORA OF QUEENSLAND, 



smaller, crowded in centre of thallus and sub-erect, 

 Apotliecia not seen. " Gathered probably in a shady 

 locality; the under side brings to memory S. Freycinetii."" 

 Dr. K. in lit. F. M. B. 



Hah. — On bark of trees, Mount Mistake. 



21. S. variabilis Ach. 



Thailus membranaceous, rather rigid, pale glaucous or pale 

 brown buff or brownish, rosette -like, few divisions at first then 

 broken up into lobed and furcate, sub-pinnatifid laciniee, 

 which are sub-erect and small in size compared with the main 

 divisions, circumference crenate, sinuate or stenophyllous ;■ 

 under surface brown with paler margins, tomentose ; 

 cyphellaj like punctated papilhe, urceolate, white. Apothecia 

 £n. red-brown, marginal or sub-marginal, thalline border crenu- 

 late ; theea* ovate-oblong, with 1-seriate contents ; spores- 

 exceedingly variable, 1 — 4 septate, ovate, ovate-oblong or 

 bifusiform, with I. pale yellow-brown, -GIG — '036 x *005 — 

 •<>12 m.m. ; paraphyses shortly jointed, with clavate 

 nucleolar tips. 



Syn. — S. Boryana and S. papvracea Del. 



flab. — On trunks of trees Maroochie and Bellenden Ker 

 Range. 



22. S. dichotomoides, A'///. 



Closely resembling S. carpolomoides but glauco-pallescent r 

 moderately rigescent, scarcely shining, scrobiculate or slightly 

 scrobiculate-unequal, linear-laciniate, lacinia3 narrow, dich- 

 otomously divided, margins fringed with leptogioid 

 ccphalodia, base stipitate ; stipes costate, whitish, solid r 

 sparingly ramose-fibrillose, fibrils coralloid, cinereo-fuscescent r 

 M. or sordid, minute, always directed in the plane of the lacinia?, 

 Cyphellai pallid. Apothecia bright dark brown, 2 — 4 m.m., 

 marginal or sub-marginal, margin of receptacle, entire, firm, 

 concolorous ; spores colourless fusiform, 3 -septate, "036 — 

 •038 x 01— 012 m.m. 



Sun. — S damaecornis v. linearis AV. 



