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TUB LICHEN FLORA OF QUEENSLAND, 



v. dissecta, J. Muell. 



Thallus yellow-brown, smooth, shining, faintly trans- 

 versely striate ; beneath similar in colour with faint 

 M. reddish tinge, very slightly tomentose ; cyphelhe punctate, 

 minute, white. Lobation linear, lacinia? irregularly 

 pinnate, ending in a fringe of minute terminal and lateral 

 lacinuhe with ascending margins. Apothecia not seen. 



Bab. — Main Range near Toowooinba, 



2. S. cinnamonea, Rich. 



Thallus yellowish or glaucous, thin, rigid, fragile, smooth, 

 or rough here and there, fracture white, laciniaa linear, pin- 

 natifid, dichotomous ; beneath ochraceous, subcostate, 

 M tomentose. Pseudocyphelhe minute, pulverulent, white. 

 Apothecia reddish or brown, scattered ; thalline border 

 toothed or crenulate, incurved so as to make the apothecia 

 urceolate. 



Syn. — S. fragillima v. glaberrima, Bab. Hand. Fl. N.Z. 



3. S. Dozyana, Mnt. 



Thallus fleshy red brown or cervine, somewhat stiff, lobes 

 imbricating, ending in broad rounded lobules with crenulate 

 pulvinate margins, surface pitted and faintly striate, and 

 marked over scantily with white sored i a ; under surface of 

 K. similar colour at elge-i but darker towards the centre, with 

 brown tomcntum and apparently faintly nerved. Pseudo- 

 cyphclhc- minute. Apothecia (diam. 1 — 1-5 m.m.) with 

 blood-red disk and pallid inflexed margin. Thecai clavatc 

 % cylindrical, 8 spored, spores usually in two series, fusiform- 

 cylindrical, hyaline, 1-septate, very similar in .size and shape, 

 •027 x -004— -006 m.m. 

 Hub. — Main Range and Bunya Mountains. 



4. S. intricata, Del. 



Thallus coriaceous, above glabrous, beneath tomentose or 

 subtomentose, slialing froai tawny yellow to stone colour 

 above, but, though paler at the margins, darker than other 

 forms below, and bringing the white pseudocyphella? into 



