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THE LICHEN FLORA OF QUEENSLAND, 



19. L, scabrida, C. K. 



Th alius olive-ashy grey, of minute, globose, scurfy granules, 

 normally continuous, but with the matrix rimose-fissured. 

 Apothecia adnate, flat, fleshy-brown or brown, somewhat 

 shapeless or as if syncarpous, to *8 m.m. in diameter; 

 K. margin thin ; disk paler, often flexuose ; proper excipulum 

 palely coloured ; paraphyses agglutinate ; apices somewhat 

 coloured ; spores simple, ellipsoid, colourless, *013 x "008 

 m.m. 



Hab. — On bark, S. Queensland scrubs. 



Dr. Knight, Syn. Queen. Fl. Sec. Supp. p. 75. 



20. L. leioplaca, Mull. Arg. 



Thallus moderate in size, definite, argillaceo-albescent, or 

 somewhat argil laceo-virescent, shining, very finely rimulose; 

 apothecia *3 — *5 m.m., wholly immersed, very flat, not at 

 all distinctly margined, disk purpurascent - fuscescent, 

 when moist of a deeper colour, nude, neither emergent nor 

 M. depressed ; epithecium brown ; lamina and epithecium 

 fulvescent-hyaline ; paraphyses conglutinate ; asci narrow • 

 spores 8, elongate-ellipsoid or obovoid, -012 — 018 x *005 — 

 — '0065 m m., differing considerably in outline. 

 Hah. — Rockhampton. 

 Lich. Beit. XXV. 6. 



21. L. mutabilis, Fee. 



Thallus evanescent. Apothecia rufo-fuscescent, small, 

 scattered, sessile, plane; margin thin, entire; hypothecium 

 M. colourless ; spores 8, colourless, rotundato-oblong, simple, 

 large. 



Leigli. Lich. Fl. Great Brit, p 298. 



22. — L. piperis, Spreng. 



% J Biatorella. — Apothecia and thallus as in Biatora ; 

 spores simple, colourless, numerous. 



23. L. conspersa, Fee. 



Thallus effuse, leprose, pale-yellow. Apothecia scattered, 

 numerous, small, '2 — *4 m.m. in diameter; junior forms 



