THE LICHEN FLORA OF QUEENSLAND, 



speciosa, which it closely resembles in colour of upper surface 

 and lobation, but thicker and more fragile, linear laciniate» 

 lacinia) radiate, lateral margins crenate and sored iate, apices 

 of lacinise furcate-crenate, sored iate, not revolute or crisped ; 

 l. under surface smooth and with a distinct yellowish or 

 brownish tinge. Sterile. According to Nylander (Syn. Lich. 

 p. 418 Vol I), the apothecia are black-brown or black, 

 medium in size, 3 — 5 m.m., the margin of the receptacle 

 narrower, sub-entire or unequal ; sf ores *035 — '052 x *018 

 — -025 m.m. 



Hab. — Common on rocks along the Brisbane River. 

 Syn. — Parmelia papulosa, Mnt. 



P. adglutinata, Flk. (K— C— ). 



Thallus pale ashy sordid or sordid -greenish or olive-green, 

 usually darker than other Queensland Physcias, orbicular, 

 closely adhering ; lacinia, 1 narrow, niultifid, imbricate, sub- 

 fused, central portion leprose-sorediate, sterile. The apo- 



r. thecia of European specimens are nigro-fuscous, • naked, 

 margin pale, entire ; spores 8, fuscous, oval-oblong, 1-septate, 

 •014— -021 x -008— -01 m.m. 



Syn. — P. viridis, Mnt , P. syncolla, Tuck, Parmelia minor, 

 Fee., P. obscura v. adglutinata, Nyl. 



Hah. — LUindaberg near the coast, by J. Keys. 



*** Thallus linear-laciniate, appressed — margin of 

 apothecium crenate. 



P. speciosa, Wulf. (K + C + ). 



Thallus horizontal, stellate, imbricate, crustaceous or foliace- 

 ous, greenish-white, grey-hoary or pale glaucous above ; 

 linear laciniate, lacinia} contiguous-appressed, or separate and 

 furcate-lacinulate, tips obtuse and powdery ; beneath snow- 

 white with grey fibres, rhizina? and marginal cilia whitish. 



i. Apothecia raised, with brown disk and crenulate or (seldom 

 in Queensland forms) entire margin ; theca? cylindrical 

 clavate ; spores brown, 1-septate, nuclei hemispherical or 

 cylindrical or irregular, -023— -027— x -012— -018 m.m. ; 

 paraphyses often remaining attached to the thecai. 



