THE LICHEN FLORA OF QUEENSLAND, 



WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF SPECIES ; 

 By John Shirley, B.Sc. 



PART III. 

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Sub-tribe V. — Eulecanorei. 



Thallus crustaceous, granular or smooth or leprose, rarely 

 radiating, Apothecia with a thalline border ; thalarnium 

 always naked, flat or tumid ; paraphyses separate ; spores 8 

 or more, seldom septate, colourless, rarely fuscous. Sperma- 

 gonia with arthrosterigmata, or with very long, curved, 

 acicular spermatia, or with straight simple sterigmata. 



VII. — Lecanora, 

 Characters as in the sub-tribe above. 

 * Spores numerous. — Acraspora. Fr. 



1. L. vitellina, Ach. 



Thallus pale greenish yellow, indeterminate, leprose, granu- 

 lated, granules minute, crenulate or crenate or sublobate or 

 conglomerate ; apothecia clustered, sessile, tawny yellow, 

 Sy, plane, at length convex and brownish ; thalline margin 

 elevated, entire or crenate ; spores numerous, colourless, 

 oblong, simple or subpolari-bilocular or obsoletely uniseptate. 



Hab. Moggill, on old fences by the ferry. 



** Spores 8, simple, colourless, not pertusarioid. 



2 J L. subfusca, L. 



Thallus effuse, continuous, crustaceous to leprose-pulverulent, 

 smooth, rimulose, granulate, verrucose, rugose or diffract, 



