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THE LICHEN FLORA OF 



QUEENSLAND, 



asci monosporous ; spores colourless, *09 x -03 m.m., 

 Sn. resembling those of L. Domingensis but with the transverse 

 series of cellules three times as numerous : paraphyses 

 slender, distinct. Spermagonia with shortly articulated 

 arthrosterigmata, and bacilliform spermatia *003 x *0005 

 m,m. 



Hab. — On bark, Rosewood and Indooroopilly. 



58. L. parabola, Nyl., v. subvulpina, Mull. Arg. 



Thallus golden yellow, as in L. vulpina Tuck., but spores 

 as in the normal L. parabola, resembling those of L. bifera y 

 Ms but within simply spirally divided. The colour of thallus 

 a3 with all its Queensland allies is evidently inconstant, 

 and often in the same specimen from flavescent to more 

 or less glaucescent or albican*. Lich. Beit. von. Dr. J. 

 Miiller, XXVI, 20. 

 Hab. — Trinity Bay. 



59. L. Sayeri, Mull Arg. 



Thallus flavescent-olivaceou 3 , smooth ; apolhecia patellarioid, 

 sessile, rather thick, '7 — 1*3 m.m. in diameter, prominently 

 margined, when dry with subflexuous, red or blood-red 

 margin ; disk flat, rufo-nigrcsccnr, when moist beautifully 

 M. biood-red, nude ; lamina above deeply rufo-sanguineous, 

 elsewhese with hypothecium hyaline or sub- hyaline ; para- 

 physes stoutish, often bifurcate above; asci 1 — 2 spored ; 

 spores "035 — 048 x '02 — -023 m.m., ellipsoid, hyaline, 

 parenchymatous, 10 — 15 locular, loculi transversely 3—4 

 locellate, locelli subcubical. 



Hub — Russell River and Tambourine Mountain, on bark. 

 L ; ch. B.ir. von Dr. J. Muller, Sep.-Ab. XXVI. 19. 



% * % * % Nesolechia — Parasitic on other lichens. 



60. L. coccocarpia, Mull, Arg. 



Apothecia black or obscurely brown-black, -025 — 033 

 m.m., thickish, emergent-sessile, hemispherical, at length 

 with deplanate vertex, immarginate, nude ; epithecium 



