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THE LICHEN FLORA OF QUEENSLAND. 



Xhecae 8-spored, broad ; spores 1 — 8 septate, straight or 

 somewhat curved, oval-fusiform, apices pointed, *02;> — *05 

 x -004 m.ra. ; paraphyses discrete, filiform, united at their 

 tips which ar« brown and tuberculate. 



Syn. — S. Urvillei v. flavicans Hook et Tayl. ; Parmosticta 

 rubrina, Stirton. 



Hab. — Mt. Mistake and Bunya Mts. 



Dr. Stirton in his description of P. rubrina gives spores — 

 •06— -1 x -003— -004 m.m. Dr. Knight refers all Mr. 

 Bailey's specimens to S. flavicans. 



*** Pseudocyphella? white ; Parmosticta?, Nyl, 



30. S. Billardieri, Del. 



Thallus pale, glaucous, brown or yellow olive, often virescent, 

 glabrous, densely and transversely reticulate-lacunose, the 

 reticulations dotted over with spermagonia ; branching 

 M. dichotomously, laciniai linear, sub-pinnatifid, intricate, retuse, 

 with forked tips or undivided, thickened and rigid ; fracture 

 white ; beneath with pale or brown tomentum sometimes 

 evanescent ; cyphellaj small, yellow. Apothecia numerous, 

 all marginal ; disk red-brown or black, flat, finally concave ; 

 margin inflexed, entire or crenate, sometimes evanescent. 

 Thecal' 8-spored, one — two-seriate, narrow cylindrical or 

 ovate-cylindrical ; spores 1 — 3 septate, brown, ovate or 

 ovate-fusiform, '027 x -009 m.m. ; paraphyses of oblong 

 cells. Spermatia -004 x -00 1 m.m. 



Syn. — S. fossulata Dufour, S. impressa, cellulifera, linearis 

 Fl. Ant.. S. foveolata, Del., S. llichardsi, Hook. S. divulsa 

 Tayl. 



81, S. Freycinetii, Del. 



Thallus pale straw colour to yellow-cinnamon or rarely 

 olivaceous, scarcely rigid, smooth, glabrous, occasionally 

 obsoletely rugose ; lobes linear, concave, branches spreading, 

 margins undulate, crenate or sinuate-lobate, crisped, glabrous 

 or soredioid ; fracture and soredia white ; beneath bare or 

 M. velvety, black or lurid-brown or ashy. Apothecia few f 



