212 THE LICHEN FLORA OF QUEENSLAND, 



ance obscurely lecideine, not raised above thalline surface, 

 Sn. lurid and pruinose, varying from erythrinose to bright 

 vermilion; spores 8, *02 x '0075, differing considerably 

 in size and shape, 5 — 6-locular, broader at one end, the 

 terminal loculus at the broad end being by far the largest, 

 in colour reddish with greenish cells. 

 Hab. — On bark, Ithaca Creek and Mt. Mistake. 



6. A. cinereo-argentea, C. K. 



Thallus very thin, smooth, shining, rinereo-argenteous or 

 pale glaucous or pale steel coloured, continuous or occa- 

 sionally interrupted, subde terminate, not nigro-1 imitate. 

 K. Apothecia black, numerous, not emergent, lirellate, indis- 

 tinctly stellate or difformate, opaque, not pruinose. Spores 

 4-locular or the two terminal loculi again unevenly divided, 

 linear, constricted at each septum, at both ends acute, 

 •05 — -06 x -006 — -007 m.m. ; paraphyses indeterminate. 

 Hab. — Botanic Gardens, on Ficus laccifera. 



7. A. gracillima, Mull Arg. 



Thallus (epidermis) very thin, outwardly revealed by white 

 shining spots ; lirellas -25 — *75 m.m. long, '05 — *07 

 m.m. wide, simple or irregularly branched, emergent, at 

 M. length nude, black ; spores in subglobose asci, 8 in number, 

 cylindrical-obovoid, at both ends obtuse, *018 — -024 x *008 

 — -01 m m , 6-locular, the superior loculus longer and 

 somewhat broader. Lich. Beit. v. Dr. J. M., XXVI. 27. 

 Hab. — On branches at Toowoomba. 



8. A. gracilenta, Mall Arg. 



Thallus white, covered with an epideraiis, obsoletely nigro- 

 limitate ; apothecia black, when moist obsoletely fusco- 

 pallid or concolorous, erumpent-innate, convex, -08 — *017 

 m.m. wide, slender, commonly much longer than wide, 

 M. sparingly ramose, variously bent or curved, often unequal- 

 ly subtufted ; when young veiled, when mature nude, 

 opaque, immarginate, within obscute ; lamina and hypoth- 



