BY JOHN SHIRLEY, B.SC. 



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Hab. — On trunks of trees Main Range. 



23. S. fllix, Hfm. 



Thallus pallid, pallid-lurid, or pallid-ghuicescent drying 

 stone-colour, smooth, slightly glazed, 3 — 5in., siipitate, 

 stipes firm, narrow ; laciniate-lobate, lobes incised, costate 

 beneath ; margins variously sinuate-crenate or crenated- 

 incised or fimbriate, under side pallid-ochraeeous or pallid- 

 cervine or ochraceous-rufrscent, nude or nearly so ; cyphellaa 

 L. pallid. Apothecia rufo-pallescent or fusco-rufous, 1 — 2 

 m.m., thalline margin entire, somewhat prominent, or at 

 length hidden ; spores 8, colourless, fusiform, 1 — 3 septate, 

 •03— -035 x -008— -01 m.m. 



Hab. — On trunks of trees Tambourine Mt., Maroochie and 

 Mt. Mistake. 



24. S.-macrophylla, Nyl 



Thallus from bright green to lurid red or red-brown, smooth, 

 large, laciniate ; lacinia? broad, elongated, sinuate-lobate, 

 imbricate, extremities broadly dilated, sinuate, retuse- 

 truncate : under surface clothed with brown tomentum ; and 

 excavated with white cyphellaj ; fracture white. Apothecia 

 marginal or scattered, red-brown, thnlline border entire or 

 M. crenulate, the whole almost concolorons with the thallus ; 

 theca? linear-cylindrical or oval with 1 — '2 seriate contents ; 

 spores 1 — 3 septate with short oblong central cells, and 

 conical longer terminal ones ; *027 — 'G32 x -006 — *007 

 m.m., colourless, 'fusiform ; paraphyses golden yellow with 

 I., tips large ; hym. gel. with I. yellowish. 



S/jn. — S. dama?cornis v. macrophylla. 



25. S. Oamarie, J. Muell. 



Thallus shining, smooth, light buff or pallid above, 6 — 8 

 in. wide ; below bright salmon colour with netted markings 

 and urceolate pale salmon cyphellai ; lobate-laciniate, loosely 

 branching, branches free, lax, primary lacinia?, 12 — 18 m.m. 

 wide, digitately terminating in finger-like laeinuhw Apo- 

 K. thecia marginal, T5 m.m., red-brown, margins raised, 



