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to brownish, white pruinose, at length denudate, margin 

 always paler and entire, or at length minutely granoso- 

 subcrenate, epithecium and hypothecium clay-brown ; 

 lamina hyaline ; spores solitary in ascus. 06 — -095 x "02 

 — -027 m.m., 6 — 8 locular, strongly pachydermate. 

 Bab. — On bark, Toowoomba. 

 Lich. Beit. v. Dr. J. M XVI, 6. 



SO. L. inflexa, C K. 



Thallus cinereo-glaucous, unequal, rough, not tubercular, 

 continuous. Apothecia black-brown, 2 m.m., in diameter, 

 with obtuse, cirereo-fuscous, raised, inflexed, persistent 

 margins ; excipulum proper, black-brown, structure at the 

 K. sides distinctly irradiate, within obscure; hypothecium 

 sparingly coloured, thin ; paraphyses conn exo- ramose, 

 grumose, indistinct ; spores solitary, 5-septate, somewhat 

 subcurved, colourless, -08 x "025 m.m, 

 Lab. — On bark of trees, Eosewood. 



31. L. fusco-lutea, Dicks. 



Thallus effuse, very thin, cinerascent or cinereo-navescent, 

 granulose-verrucose ; apothecia fulvous or testaceous at 

 length rufo- fuscous ; margin thick, inflexed, paler, flexuose; 

 disk slightly concave, then plane ; hypothecium pale- 

 M. yellow ; thecse ovate-oblong, 1 spored ; spores murali- 

 reticulate, oblong or ovate, -049 x '017 mm.; hym. gel. 

 with iodine sordid blue, then intensely red or fulvescent ; 

 paraphyses simple, discrete. 

 Hob. — Toowoomba. 



32. L. phyllocharis, Mnt. 



Thallus cinerascent, pulverulent or as a thin crustaceous 

 scale. Apothecia patellate, when young with distinct 

 thalline margin ; disk plane, pale yellow brown ; spores 

 Sn. few in each ascus, ovoid or ovoid-oblong, with 5 principal 

 septa, and each loculus again transversely divided, each 

 transverse series 2 — 5 locellate. 



