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Li(h. Beit., Dr. J. M., XVI. 7. 

 Hab. — On bark, near Rockhampton. 



41. L. alutacea, Krph. 



Th alius superficially closely or loosely rimulose, when young 

 smooth, at length subverrucose-asperulose. Apothecia flesh- 

 M. coloured, nude both in disk and margin, or indistinctly 

 cinereo-surrused ; epithecium sub-hyaline ; spores acicular, 

 9—13 septate, -046— '07 x -0045 m m. 



Syn — Patellaria millegrana y. carnea, Mull, Arg., P. 

 heterochroa, Mull. Arg. 

 Hab. — Rockhampton. ? 



42. L, Ttaffii, Stirton. 



Thallus pallid-cervine or pallid-rufescent, rugulose, some- 

 what granulate, thin, indeterminate. Apothecia innate, 

 black, flat, rotcmdate or oblong, now and then somewhat 

 irregular, immarginate, within pallid-fuscescent ; spores 8' 

 colourless, acicular, 7 — 17 septate and more, -045 — '08 

 Sn. x -003 — 0045 m.m. ; paraphyses medium, not at all distinct, 

 apices fuseescent ; hypothecium black-brown or nigrescent, 

 thiekish ; hym. gel., with iodine caarulescent, at least slightly, 

 thecse now and then reddish-yellow. 

 Hab, — On bark, near Brisbane. 



Dr. Stirton, Iran?., Glasgow Soc, Field Nat., p. 1G8. 



J J * Blastenia. — Spores polari-bilocular. 



43. L. ferruginea, Hurls. 



Thallus whitish or greyish or carious, thin, rather smooth, 

 furfuraceous or crustaceous or leprose, covered with granules 

 or warts of similar colour. Apothecia biatorine, rusty-red, 

 sessile, flat, marginate, at length convex and immarginate ; 

 M. margin thick, entire or flexuose ; spores 8, oval, colon: less, 

 polari-hilocalar. Spermagonia confluent, orange or red ; 

 sterigmata short, simple, occasionally ramose or of few artic- 

 ulations ; spermatia -0025 — -003 m.m. in length. 

 Syn. — Lecanora ferruginea. 



