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THE LICHEN FLORA OF QUEENSLAND, 



Hab. — On bark, near Brisbane. Dr. J. Stirton, Proc. 

 Roy. Soc. Yic. Sept. 1880. 



v. subcorallina, Mall. Arg. 



Thalline lacinirc coralloid-divided, with divisions shorter 

 and more obscure than in L. parvifolia v. corallina. 

 M. Apothecia and spores as in the type ; hypothecium deep 

 brown or yellow-brown. Toowoomba. 



v. atro-virens, C. K. 

 K. Thallus a dark-metallic green. Fassifern and Milora. 



2. L, parvifolia, Pers. 



Thallus squamulose; scales laciniate, crenate, pallid, 

 glaucous or greenish, beneath pallid ; hypothallus snow- 

 white, stiffly arachnoideo-radiating ; gonidia flame-coloured. 

 Apothecia white hispid, pallid, marginate, within whitish ; 

 £n. hypothecium hyaline or sub-hyaline; spores -Oil — "015 

 x -0025 — -004 m.m., oblong, simple, colourless, spore coat 

 thin. 



Syn. — Lecanora bibula, Tayl. 



TIab. — Toowoomba, Sankey's Scrub, 3-mile Scrub, on bark. 



v. granulosa, Mull. Arg. 



Thalline lacinise small, granulitorm, angular or digitately 

 M. crenate incised, cinereo-virescent, beneath very minutely 

 albido-hirsute, Toowoomba. 



v. corallina, Tuck. s. v. fibrillifera, Nyl. Toowoomba. 

 M. (For varieties only.) Lich. Beit. v. Dr. J. Mueller, 

 XV. 22. 



3. L. subhyalina, Stirton, 



Thallus white, thin, somewhat minutely squamulose; 

 apothecia pellucid, resembling amber, at first plane and 

 scarcely marginate, then convex and almost globular ; 

 Sn. spores 2 — 81, colourless, siinple f ellipsoid, 015— '02 x 

 •0065— -009 m.m.; paraphyses none properly so called* 

 the entire hymenium being gelatinous ; epithecium and 



