BY JOHX SHIRLEY, B.SC. 



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L. meiospora, Nyl. 



Thallus forming a thin scale on soft friable Brisbane shales, 

 or on anthills, or on the hardened soil of road-banks, 

 pallid or cinerascent ; apothecia 1 — 1*5 mm.: thin, 

 crowded, not innate, black or black-brown, at length 



I. shapeless, margin thin, distinct, black, somewhat inflexed ; 

 spores simple, colourless, oval, -016 x -003 m.m. ; hypoth- 

 ecium pale. 



Syn- — L. contigua v. meiospora, Nyl., L. crustulata v. 

 meiospora, Nyl- 



Hab. — Taylor's Range, Sandgate, Goodna. 



*** Biatora. — Thallus not squamose or laciniate ; apo- 

 thecia biatorine ; spores simple, colourless. 



L aberrata, Stirton. 



Thallus white or whitish, thin, pulverulent or leprose- 

 granulatej apothecia fusco-rufous. - 6 — 1*3 m.m., sessile, 

 flat and then as if with thalline margin, at length convex 

 and immarginate ; spores 8, simple, colourless, -0085 — 



>n. -011 x *005 — -0065 m.m. ; paraphyses slender, not readily 

 separating, apices yellowish ; hypothecium colourless. 

 Hym. gel., intensely caulescent, then sordid 



Hab. — On bark of Eucalyptus crebra, Brisbane. 

 Dr Stirton, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vic, Sept., 1880. 



L, aspidula, Krph. 



Thallus ochraceo-fuscescent ; apothecia when dry nigres- 

 cent, when moist rubricose-fuscescent, and then plainly 

 approaching towards L. russula, but rather smaller and 

 more convex, and not blood-red ; epithecium olivaceo- 

 L fuscescent ; lamina and hypothecium hyaline ; paraphyses 

 conglutinate ; spores -009— -014 x -004—005 m.m., oblong- 

 obovoid and ellipsoid, in outline varying. Lich. Beit v. 

 Dr. J. Muller, XXV. 5. 

 Hab. — On granite, near Rockhampton. 



