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immersed, to 2*5 m.m., proper margin exserted, rather 

 K. thick, spumous, concealing the thalline border ; spores 

 dark-brown, oval or oval-oblong, when young 4 -septate, 

 later on with loculi 2 — 3 locellate or mura'ly divided, 

 •028 — -06 x -0065 — -017 m.m. ; paraphyses wavy, sub 

 conglutinate. tawny yellow with iodine ; hym. gel. with 

 iodine not coloured. 



Hab. — Sankey's Scrub, on bark. 



4. L. integrum, Mull. Arg. 



Thallus pallid-olivaceoup, thin, smooth, bordered by a black 

 zone ; mature apothecia 1 — 1*2 m.m. wide, hemispherical, 

 smooth, concolorous, with apex acutp, -3 — -5 m.m., pore 

 simple and entire, ostiola csesio-nigiicant ; proper perithecium 

 M. thin and like the hypothecium nigricant ; base of perithecium 

 black, columella ce ; spores brown, ellipsoid, 4 — 5 — 6 locular, 

 with central loculi, or rarely the whole, 2 -locellate, -015 — 

 •02 x 008— -011 m.m. 

 Hab. — Russell River, on bark. 

 Lich. Beit, von Dr. J. Muller, XXVI. 23 



5. L. compunctum, Smith. 



Thallus thin, ashy white, flavescent or virescent, glabrous, 

 cracked longitudinally, very slightly convolute. Apothecia 

 small, diameter -3 m.m., sunk in small convex thalline 

 verruca? ; ostiola rotund, minute, slightly prominent, width 

 about -1 m,m. ; proper excipulum white ; perithecium above 

 Su. distinctly brown, laterally thin, base wanting ; spores in 

 narrow asci, normally murally divided, 8-locular, with 3-4 

 cellules in each loculus, •025— 03 x -01—012 m.m.; 

 paraphyses distinct. 



Syn.— Urceolaria compuncta, Ach., The'otrema occultum, 

 Eschw., Graphis anfractuosa, Kschw. 



6. L. mastoideum, Mull. Arq. 



Thallus white to glaucous, moderately thin, effuse, unequal. 

 Apothecia numerous, when young mastoideo-immersed, 



