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olivaceous, at length slightly rimulose, and here and there 

 with surface obsoletely furfuraceous ; young apothecia 

 carneo-albescent, margin paler, entire, later on as if 

 niorbose-fuscescent or nigrescent, margin always promin- 

 M. ently concave ; lamina very small, hyaline like the epith- 

 ecium ; hypothecium thinly fuscescent, obscure, lower 

 stratum hyaline, inferior part of the perithecium forming 

 a thick brown zone; spores 8, -005 — 007 x -003 — -004 

 m.m ; oblong ovoid or ellipsoid. 



Hab. — Daintree River. 



Lich. Beit., 'v. Dr. J. Midler, XXVI, 16. 



17. L. subsimilis, Nyl. 



Thallus thin, leprose -furfuraceous, continuous, margin not 

 bordered, flavescent-cinereous, outwardly resembling L. 

 furfuracea ; apothecia corneous or corneo-rufescent or 

 M. fuscescent, wholly pallid within ; spores oblong or oblong- 

 rodshaped, -009 — "012 x -002 — '003 m.m. ; paraphyses 

 not separating; hym. gel., with iodine ca?rulescent, after- 

 wards lutescent. 



Syn. — L. tenuis, Mull. Arg. 



Hab. — Daintree River, on bark. 



18. L. phaeocarpa, C.K. 



Thallus leprose-furfuraceous, fulvous or fulvo-cervine or 

 fulvo-fuscous, determinate, bordered by a nigro-fuscous 

 narrow band. Apothecia numerous, seldom crowded or 

 confluent, very small or absent for 10 — 12 m.m. within 

 K. the hypothalline zone, sessile, little raised, flat, pallid 

 fuscous to fusco-nigrescent ; margin thin, paler; spores 8, 

 simple, colourless, oval or oval-oblong, '017 — 02 x "005 — 

 •006 m.m , 2-seriate in short, broad asci ; paraphyses thick, 

 not readily separating; hym. gel., with iodine remaining 

 pale vinous red, 



Hab. — Sankey's Scrub near Brisbane, on bark. 



