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THE LICHEN FLORA OF QUEENSLAND. 



cellulose ; granules (gonimia) often joined in a moniliforni manner. 

 Apothecia with or without a proper bonier ; spores 8, usually simple ; 

 parapliyses distinctly articulate. Spermagonia witli arthrosterig- 

 mata. 



* Aj othecia lecanorine. 



1 P. pannosa, Su\ 



Thallus pallid, ashy or ste^l-grey, appressed, interruptedly 

 stellate-laciniate ; lacinias indistinctly linear, close, parallel 

 and radiate, often "confluent, central parts broken up by 

 soredia ; the whole beautifully defined by the sooty-black 

 dense hvpothalline borde»\ Apothecia red or red-brown 

 with crenulate thalline margin : asci narrow cylindrical, 



Sn. usually with 1 -seriate contents; spores 8, simple, hyaline, 

 diversiform, ovate, ellipsoid, passing occasionally to the 

 subglobose -013 — -015 x -007 — '009 num. ; hym. gel. with 

 iodine intensely blue. 



Si/n. — Parmelia pannosa, Ach. Parmelia atropannosa ? 



Schaer. 



Hab — Common on rocks and trees ; v. isidioidu — Bellenden 

 Ker Range and Mt, Perry. 



2. P. cervina, Kremp. 



Thallus cervine, pallid-cervine - or ashy-cervine, appressed, 

 lacinia*te-lobate, ladniae diffracr, interruptedly linear, sub- 

 parallel, not overlapping but with lateral margins in contact, 

 fused throughout the central portions, terminations crenate 

 incised or sub-pinnatifid, crenatures blunt, rounded. Hypo- 

 M. thallus blue-black showing as thick felted border. Apothecia 

 with clay-red to dark-red plane disks, margins patent, incised 

 and crenulate ; spores simple, ovoid or ellipsoid or oblong } 

 spore envelope thick, *0 1 2 — 015 x -007 — 008 m.m. 

 S V n.— \\ pannosa Del. (Su\) Dr. Knight in lit. P. M. B. 



3. P. rubiginosa, Del. (Sw). 



Thallus orbicular, livid red, livid glaueescent or pale, cut 

 towards the circumference into broad notched, imbricated 

 lobes, laciniae appressed, nearly piano, inci^o-lobulate and 



