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covered with a thick firm smooth thalline stratum which 

 M. is longitudinally furrowed on both sides ; disk linear- 

 rimose, black ; perithelium black, base finely attenuate, 

 (incompletely dimidiate) ; spores solitary T — -14 x '033 

 — .038 m m , within finely parenchymatose-locellate. 



Hab. — Trinity Bay, on palms. 



6. G. sophistica, Nyl. 



Thallus p.ile whitish-yellow or cream colour, thin, mem- 

 braneous, .continuous, smooth or slightly uneven ; lirellas 

 black, emergent, slender, contracted here and there, simple 

 or branched, wavy, scattered, extremities acuminate; lips 

 here and there deeply bifid, or 2-lobed or immarginate, 

 K. sulcate ; perithecium lateral ; epithecium rimiform, naked; 

 proper margin thin, elevated, wavy and crisped ; thallodal 

 margin membranaceous; spores 8, colourless, oblong or 

 ellipsoid, murali-m unilocular, 019—025 x '006 — -008 

 ni.m , 5-9 septate, loculi 2-3 locellate. 



Sjjn — G scripta, heighton., G. pulverulenta, Leigh., G. 



platycarpa, Eschic, 



Bab. — Tambourine Mountain 



Iff Aulacographina, Mall. Arg. 



7. G. fisso-furcata, Leighlon. 



Thallus pale green or glaucous, smooth, pruinose, surface 

 uneven ; lirellae large, 6 — 8 m.m. long, wavy, freely 

 brandling or stel lately rayed ; branches litt'e curled, 

 slightly narrowing to their terminations, obtusely pointed ; 

 disk to -3 mm. wide: thalline margins distinct, raised, 

 Sn. paler than surrounding thallus. (When young the lirella? 

 may be acuminate). Spores geminate as a rule, but 2 — G 

 occasionally, <>54 — -07 x -017 — 025 m.m, to U-septate, 

 with 4 — 8 locelli in each transverse loculus. 



Ha 1 * — On bark, Maroochie. 



