174 THE LICHEN FLORA. OF QUEENSLAND, 



26 L. reniformis, Shirley. 



Thallus pallid cinerascent, central portion crustaceous, 

 continuous, with surface rugulose ; marginal area of 

 anastomosing and subfused convex laeinia?, in parts cinoreo- 

 virescent. Apothecia 2—3-5 m m. ; pale coffee or light 

 Sy. umber in colour : margin at first thin and distinct, and 

 disk flat, later on with margin indistinct and disk sub- 

 convex ; hypothecium deep brown ; spores 8, uniseptate, 

 colourless, -02 — -025 x -006 — "013 mm , in shape oblong- 

 ovate, curved, somewhat obtuse, variable ; epispore thick. 

 Hym. gel., persistent ultramarine blue with iodine. 

 Hob. — Helidon, on mossy rocks. 



27. L. leucoblephara, Nyl. ? 



M. Hab. — On rocks, frequently on leaves, seldom on bark. 



ftf Bombyliospora. — Spores 5 — multilocular not acicular. 



28. L. ventricosa, Mull. Arg. 



Thallus thinly tartareous, smooth, continuous, at longth 

 M. rimulose or diffract, ashy white, within white, margin 

 effuse ; apothecia *5 — 1 m m , at first whitish and concave, 

 whitish -pruinose, afterwards fleshy or obscurely fleshy, 

 deundate, flat; margin paler at first and whitish, then 

 thinner, always entire; epithecium brown; lamina with 

 hypothecium hyaline ; spores regularly geminate in ascus, 

 4 — 6 locular, *05 — *055 x *02 — *026 m.m., subventricose- 

 ellipsoid, loculi laterally and plainly ventricose-convex. 



Hub — Toowoomba, on bark. 



Lich. Beit, von Dr. J. Miiller, XVI. 6. 



29. L. australiensis, Mull. Arg. 



Thallus thinly tartareous, at first the upper surface rather 

 smooth, then rimose-diffract and roughly scrobiculose or 

 confluently aspero-glebulose, ashy-white or whitish, within 

 M. white ; apothecia 1 — 2 m m , at first thickly, then thinly 

 margined, flat or somewhat convex, disk from pallid fleshy 



