194: THE LICHEN FLORA OF QUEENSLAND, 



scattered over with caesious pruina ; mature apotliecia *7 — 1 

 m.m., open, flat, brown, peculiarly elato-mastoid ; thalline 

 margin white, thin raised, irregular ; true excipulum 

 M. wanting ; disk concolorous, scorcely reaching the level of 

 the thallus, cinereo-nigrescent ; spores 8, sub-uniseriate, 

 brown, -012 — *02 x -01 — -012 nrm., from 2-locular to 

 uniseriately or cruciately 4-locular, loculi 2-3 locellate, 



Hab. — On moss, S. Queensland. 



Syn. — Thelotrema heterosp orum, CK. 



7. L. fallax, Mull. Arg. 



Thalius ochraceo-virescent, shining, mediocre, tumid-unequal; 

 apothecia 1 m.m. wide, moderately emergent, nano-pyramidal, 

 M. lower circumference subdilated, concolorous, smooth, mouth 

 •1 — -3 m.m. wide, obtuse, not at all in maturity peculiarly 

 decolorate-albescent ; disk depressed, albo-pruinose ; perith- 

 ecium in upper interior parts brown ; lamina hyaline ; spores 

 in linear asci, oblique, 1-seriate, olive brown, elongate-ovoid, 

 •015— -017 x -008— -009 m.m., 5-6 locular, sparingly 

 parenchymatous, intermediate loculi 2-locellate. 



Syn. — Thelotrema olivaceum, Krph., (non Mnt). 



Lich. Beit. XXV. 7. 



8. L. compactum, Nyl* 



Sub-tribe 3. — Graphidese, Ach. 



Apothecia from orbicular to lirelliform or fiom the first 

 elongate ; margin various, duplex or simple, with proper 

 margin immersed or none ; disk oblong, not at all or scarcely 

 urceolate depressed, often rimiform. 



* L. Baileyi, Shirley. 



Thallus pallid glaucous, hard, 5 m.m. thick, convoluted, brown 

 beneath, gonidia golden ; perithecium pale, black above ; ostiola 

 circular, widely aperient ; spores 8, brown, broadly ellipsoid, irreg- 

 ularly murali-divided, "014 — '023 x -0035 — •OH m.m. ; paraphyses 

 slender ; hypothecium colourless. 

 Syn. — Endocarpon Baileyi, Stirton. Hab. — Rosewood. 



