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M . pallid olivaceous ; lamina with bypothecium hyaline ; asci 

 obovoid, 8-spored ; spores hyaline, -018 — '021 x '006 — 008 

 m m., elongate-ovoid, equally 3-locular. Lich. Beit, v 

 Dr. J. M., XVI. 10. 

 Hab. — Kockhampton, on bark. 



fft Spores 4-locular. 



3. A. Thozctiana, MulL Arg. 



Thallus maculate, white, effuse, or in places limited by a 

 black hypothalline line, sparingly decussate ; apothecia 

 linear, -13 mm. in width, simple or often substellately 

 M. pauciramose, little emergent ; when dry with black disk, 

 beneath rufo-nigri< ant, bordered by thin obscure margin; 

 when young griseo-velate, later on nude and opaque ; 

 when moistened the disk is pallescent, and from nigrescent 

 to aqua-fumose and hyalescent ; epithecium and margin 

 olivaceo-nigricant ; lamina hyaline or above pallid oliv- 

 aceous ; hypotheciui?i hyaline; spores hyaline,'012 — -013 

 x '005 m.m., oblong- obovoid, 4-locular, septa equidistant. 

 II. tb. — Ivockhampton, on bark 

 Lich. Beit. XVI. 10. 



4. A. vulgaris v. astroidea, C. K. 



Thallus cinerascent, in parts flavescent, or cinerascent- 

 fuscescent, very thin, not shining, determinate, nigro- 

 Hmitate. LirelJce slightly emergent, at first thalline 

 clothed, fuscous, finally black and stellately ramose; 

 K. branches seldom more than five, extremities rounded ; 

 spores obovo'd or pupa-shaped, 4-locular, largest loculus at 

 broad end, hyaline or faintly brownish, -015 — 02 x '004 

 — 005 m.m. ; paraphyses indistinct ; gonidia very small. 

 Hab. — Hill .End, on Avicennia officinalis. 



fttt Spores G-locular. 



5. A. cinnabarina, Wall. 



Thallus pale glaucous grey, continuous, determinate ; 

 apothecia numerous, snuff-brown or red brown, in appear- 



