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colour and appearance resembles Lecidea (Heterothecium) 

 vulpina, Tuck. Toowoomba. 



M. v. ventricosa, Mull. Arg. Toowoomba. 



Sn. v. gyrosa, Mnt. Tambourine Mountain. 



f Iff Bacidia. — Spores 3-multilocular, acicular. 



35. L. incompta, Borr. v. spissa, Shirley. 



Thallus cinereo-virescent, thin, verruculoso-furfuraceous. 

 Apothecia dull-black, numerous, crowded, adnate, plane 

 Sy. or convex ; margin thin, flexuose, often immarginate ; 

 hypothecium thick, nigro-fuscous ; spores 8, colourless, 

 cylindrico-ellipsoid, 1 — 2 — 3-septate, -012 — -014 x '003 

 mm. 



Hob. — Bundaberg, on bark. 



36. L. eontraria, Mull Arg. 



Thallus soft, greenish or argillaceous, incrassate-leprose, 

 leprose-subglebose, here and there evanescent. Apothecia 

 small, -5 m.m. in diameter, numerous, rose-red, luteo- 

 carneous or golden yellow, when moist distinctly reddish, 

 convex o r subglobose, obsoletely margined or immarginate, 

 M. margin when moist paler than the disk ; hypothecium 

 faintly coloured ; paraphyses very slender, much branched ; 

 spores fusiform, straight, 3-septate, colourless, 02 — "025 x 

 •0025— -003 m m. 



Syn. — L. (Bilimbia) quadrilocuiaris, C. K. (non Nyl ) 

 Hab. — Lytton, on bark. 



37. L. superula, Nyl. 



Thallus very thin, cinerascent, leprose, showing the colour 

 and fissures of the bark below. Apothecia few, reddish 

 when young and sunk in the thallus, when mature raised 

 slightly above the thallus, showing flat, nude, brown or 

 Sn. nigro-fuscous disks (when moist distinctly brown) and thin 

 or scarcely prominent, nigrescent margins ; hypothecium 



