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THE LICHEN" FLORA OF QUEENSLAND, 



pei ithecium ; epithecium fus escent ; lamina very per- 

 sistently hyaline ; hypothecium above hyaline, below 

 fuscescent ; asci 1-spored ; spores hyaline 1 — 18 x .03<> 

 — '05 m m., very densely parenchymatous Lich. B?it. 

 v. Dr. J. M., XVI. 9. 



Hab. — Main Ransre near Toowoomba. 



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Cohort D. — Apothecia immarginate ; paraphyses intricately 

 connexo-ramose ; spores transversly divided, loculi not 

 lentiform, simple or variously divided, 



V 1 1 T. — A rtho ma , .1 ch 

 Spores transversely divided ; loculi simple. 



f Spores 2-1 ocular. 



1. A. Ricasolia 1 , Mall. Ary. 



Parasitic on the thallus of Rieasolia Hartinanni, subma- 

 culari-evolute, orbicular, *3 — '7 m m. wide, slightly convex, 

 circumference not at all radiately prominent, at first 

 cohered over, subolivaceous nigrieant, afterwards quite 

 nude and brown, opaque, freely and variously confluent ; 

 M. lamina distinctly innate in part of the thallus of host, 

 hyaline - olivaceous ; hypothecium hyaline ; spores in 

 obovoid asci, about 4 in number, hyaline, Oil — *015 x 

 •0025 — -00-5 m.m , slenderly soheform-bilocu'ar, at both 

 ends obtuse. 



]Jnb. — Toowoomba. 



ff Spores 3 locular. 



2. A. delicatula, Mull. Arq. 



Thallus wliite, covered by an epidermis, smooth ; apothecia 

 immersed, younger forms cinereo-velate, at length fully 

 revealed. -12 m.m., orbicular or often extremely irregular, 

 angulose or for the most part 2 — 3 times longer than wide, 

 simple or 1 — 2 ramulose, when dry dull olivaceous, 

 convex, often immarginate and within obscure ; epithecium 



