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TUB LICHEN FLORA OF QUEENSLAND, 



loss, elongate-fusiform, 7-septate, often acute at both apices, 

 •05 — 07 x *000 — -008 in.HL, twisted together ; paraphyses 

 separating, fairly thick, with brown heads. 



5. R. plurimseptata, C. K. 



Thallus pale-grey, with smooth upper surface sparsely dotted 

 over with small black spermagonia, lobes few, rounded, with 

 sinuate margins, paler beneath with fuscous rhizina?. Apo- 

 thecia shortly pedicellate, at first resembling those of Par- 

 melia ?nuvdata, afterwards with incurved laterally flattened 

 margins, becoming boat-shaped. The receptacle of an 



K. apothecium thus exhibited is covered with exceedingly fine 

 closely set granules. Disk dull dark red. Asci clavate- 

 cylindrical, -OS x -01 m.m. Spores overlapping and massed, 

 secular, colourless, 12 — 15 septate, '06 x *005 m.m. 

 Paraphyses clavate, separating, tips very dark brown (I)'. 



Hob. — Mt. Mistake. 



The following are also reported from Queensland habitats in the 

 Vic. Nat. for Oct. 1887 : — R. su-blrevis Nyl. R. hypo! erica J> 

 MuelL 



Tribe XII. — Peltigerei, Nyl. 



Thallus dilated, under surface naked. Apothecia usually 

 marginal, adnate to the upper or lower surface of the thallus. 

 Spores 3, colourless and fusiform in the marginal apothecia, 

 fuscous and ellipsoid and bilocular in the scattered apo- 

 thecia. Paraphyses stout, articulate. 



SuB-tkibe I. — Nephromei, Nyl. 



Apothecia adnate to the lower surface of the margin of the 

 thallus. Spores 8, colourless or fusrescent, 3-septate- 

 Spermagonia pallid, marginal, furnished with arthro-sterig- 

 mata, spermatia incrassate at both ends and obtuse. 



I. — Nkphromium, Nyl 



Thallus fragile, lurid, glaucous or fuscous or rarely pallid ; 

 granular stratum of gonimia (not true gonidia as in Nephroma), 



