BY JOHK SHIRLEY, B.SC. 



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1. P. chrysophthalma, L. (K purple). 



Thallus stiff, very narrowly laciniate, freely and shortly 

 branching to hair-like fibrillar. Laciniae yellowish or flavo- 

 albicant or flavo-cinerascent, below white and lacunose> 

 linear, ascending, dichotomously ramose ; extremities 

 dilacerate or ciliate. Gonidia with golden-yellow contents. 

 Apothecia varying in site ; margin thin, naked or ciliate- 

 Sn. radiate, pale- orange ; disk dark vermilion ; spores 8, small, 

 oval or elliptico-oblong, polari-bilocular, colourless, the loculi 

 yellow, often united by a thread of the same colour, -Oil — 

 •012 x -005 m.m. ; hym. gel. beautifully blue with iodine. 



Syn. — Theloschistes chrysophthalma of Tuck. Muell. Th. 

 Fries. Tornatenia africana Mass. 



Hab. — Common on branches in Queensland scrubs, as small 

 fruticulose tufts seldom lin. in diameter, 



2. P. flavicans, Sw. (K purple). 



Thallus bright orange-yellow, caespitose ; branches slender, 

 terete or compressed, thread-like, excessively divided, tufted, 

 wavy, warted, furcellate at the apices ; lateral edges of 

 flattened lacini* with small open slits, presenting a dusty 

 appearance from soredia. Apothecia lateral, nearly sessile ; 

 K. disk flat, orange ; margin pale, narrow, entire or subcrenu- 

 late at length obscured. Spores colourless, elliptico-oblong, 

 simple or polari-bilocular, the two golden yellow polar cells 

 united by a central axis of similar colour, *012 — 018 x 

 •007 — -011 m.m. 



Syn. — Theloschistes flavicans Fries, Evernia flavican9, Fries, 

 Cornicularia flavicans, Pers., Physcia exilis Mich., Corni- 

 cularia crocea, Ach. 



Hab. — On bark of trees near Brisbane, and at Mt. Bopple, 

 not common. 



Glaucescentes (Enphyscia, Cromb.) 

 * Thallus fruticulose. 



