196 THE LICHEN" FLORA OF QUEENSLAND, 



** Spores colourless — Euopegrapha. 



3. 0. plurilocularis, Mull. Arg. 



Thallus pulverulent-crustaceous, cinereous to fuscescent, grey 



pruinose, the surface scaly or flaky. Apothecia black, 

 Sn. lecMeine ; disk p ane, fuscous or nigro-fuscous, when young 

 K. virenti-pruinose ; margin distinct, elevate, somewhat thick, 

 M. darker than the disk, entire or flexuose or involute ; spores 



fusifnm, octolocuL.r, -038 x -007 m.m. 



Syn. — r <. plurilocularis, Nyl., L. coniochlora, StiHon (noil 



Mnt.) 



v. pruinosa, Mull. Arg. 

 K. Apothecia when young deep green or a3ruginose-pruinose r 

 when mature subnude. 



v. obfuscata, Mull. Arg. 



Exactly as in the type, but the thallus obfuscate, and in 

 M. this approaching O, insignis, in which the spores are 

 larger. 



Hab. — The type and its varieties are common in South 

 Queensland. 



4. 0- inalbescens, Mull. Arg. 



Thallus hard, white or pale, pulverulent, with somewhat 

 thick, rugose, warty markings, excessively unequal 

 apothecia lecideine, nigro-fuscous to black, sessile, medium 

 sized, width about 1 m.m., flat, with thick paler margins, 

 apothecia in places conglomerated : epithecium often 

 greenish pruinose, especially the younger ones ; spores 

 Sn. 4 — 8, colourless, fusiform or more frequently obtuse- 

 M fusiform, frequently curved, 6 — 10 locular, with small 

 nearly square loculi, -08 — 045 x -0055 — -007 m.m.; 

 paraphyses separating, capillary, with rather thick red- 

 dish cohering apices ; hypothecium black or black-brown, 

 thick ; hym. gel. with iodine wine red. 

 Syn. — L inalbescens, Stirton. Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict, 

 Sept. 1880. 



