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the prominences separated by a fine areolate network, surface 

 irregular. Apothecia elevate, very numerous in the central 

 area, *7 — '9 m.m. ; disk waxy, pale-red ; margin crenulate 

 from the earliest stages, thickish, thalline, rosary-shaped 

 K under the lens ; spores simple, pellucid, oval, -005 — -008 x 

 •002— -0035 m.m. 



Hab. — Mt. Perry on bark. 



Very closely approximating to L. pinguis. 



11. L. sorediifera Fee. 



Thallus cinereo-flavescent and thickly granulosa, granules 

 somewhat gibbose — irregular. Apothecia from small and 

 M. regular to 1 m.m. and plicate-angulose ; margin entire or 

 plicate ; disk flat, nude ; spores 8, simple, hyaline, - 012 x 

 •006 m.m. Near L. granulosa Mull. Arg. 



Hab. — U nrecorded. 



12. L. melanommata, C.K. 



Thallus from very pale cinereous to white, minutely areolate, 

 circumference subeffigurate, areola? flat, variously angled, 

 thin, smooth, discrete ; hypothallus black, laid bare between 

 the areola?. Apothecia very small, "27 m.m. in diameter or 

 K less, black, one or rarely two immersed in each areola ; disk 

 rising to the surface of the thallus, im margin »te, no proper 

 excipulum ; hypothecium thick, colourless; paraphyses slen- 

 der, not discrete, with rigrescent apices ; spores ellipsoid, 

 colourless, '01 x -007 m.m. 



Hab. — Mt. Perry on rocks. 



13. L. laevissima, C.K. 



Thallus pale grey with slight reddish tinge (perhaps an 

 K accidental discoloration), smooth, continuous, very fainty 

 reticulate-rimulose. Apothecia lecideine in appearance, 

 small, innate, level with the surface, the only margin being 

 that portion of the thallus cut off between the disk and the 

 surrounding chink. Spores simple, colourless, oval-oblong, 



