30 THE LICHEN FLORA OF QUEENSLAND, 



incurved ; spores narrowly ellipsoid, somewhat pointed at 

 the ends, 1 — 3-septate, usually straight, loeuli unequal, 

 •025 x -006 — "007 m.m. ; paraphyses with clavate tips. 



Ilab — Mount Mistake, where it is one of the most common 

 lichens. 



** Pseudocyphelhe yellow or yellowish — Parinostictae 



26. S. flavissima, J. Muell. 



Thallus a beautiful golden glaucous or buff, with pale gold 

 margins ; smooth, shining, linear-lobate, lobes 4 — 6 m.m. 

 wide, dividing dichotomously into few lacinire, often wider 

 than the parent limb, and terminating in a few rounded 

 teeth. Apothecia 3 — 4'5 m.m., terminal, cup-shaped, 

 margin with few crenulations, pale-gold ; disk of a venous 

 M blood- red ; thecal clavate - cylindrical, 8-spored ; spores 

 acicular, straight or somewhat curved, 3 (or more) septate, 

 •03— -039 x -0025 — -0033 m.m. ; paraphyses with swollen, 

 brown, terminal celU. Spermagonia show clearly in the 

 intra-inargmal region as punctures or small dark-mouthed 

 pits. Very near to S. flavicans, Hook et Tayl From 

 specimen sent to F. M. B. by Baron F. v. Mueller. 



27. S. Urvillei, Del. 



Thallus 3 — 8 in., yellowish or pale livid or glaucous, rigid 

 or membranaceous, almost shining, unequally closely scrobi- 

 culate or reticulately costate ; lobes rounded, with large 

 Sn. unequal crenatures ; fracture bright yellow ; beneath reddish 

 yellow or ochraceous, glabrous or tomentose ; pseudo- 

 cyphella} small, projecting, citron-yellow. Apothecia sparse, 

 sub-marginal, concave, stipitate, disk deep- red, margin raised- 

 inflexed, at first woolly, afterwards glabrous and crenulate, 

 sometimes granular or sorediferous ; spores ellipsoid, 3- 

 septate, pale olive or brown, -022 — *03 x 0075 m.m., 

 epispore sometimes with slight bulgings opposite the loeuli ; 

 hym. gel. blue with iodine, but somewhat obscured by 

 abundance of brown colouring matter ; paraphyses discrete, 

 delicate, filiform. 



Syn. — S, endochrysa Fl. Ant. ; S. flavicans, Hoot. 

 S. ochracea 3£ep^ Parmelia pubescens Peru. 



