HY JOHN SHIRLEY, B.SC. 



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Habitat : Hill End, on rocks, &c. 



The Rev. F. R. M. Wilson (in litt.) says : — " I have two 

 small specimens, found on a tree in Gippsland, crowded with 

 endocarpoid apothecia, visible on the surface as minute flattened 

 fuscescent verruca?." 



Cladonia delicata, Flk. (K + C -).— Thallus caespitose,. 

 microphylline, white or brownish-grey, leaflets minute, eroso-laciniate, 

 laciniae narrow, minutely incised or crenate and granular at the 

 margins ; podetia slender, simple or divided, ^-in., thickened 

 upwards, cartilagineous, glabrous, longitudinally ribbed or fissured, 

 more or less with granular scales. (Lichen Flora of Great Britain, 

 p. 58.) 



Habitat : On decaying logs, North Pine River. 

 Determined by Rev. F. R. M. Wilson. 



Ramalina intermedia, (Del. K + C-).— Thallus pale- 

 glaucous green, glabrous, smooth, somewhat polished, 2in. in height, 

 dividing rapidly and dichotomously into linear lobes and lobules r 

 terminal laeina? furcate or digitate with obtuse apices. Basal 

 portions of the fronds sparingly albo-sorediate. Apothecia lateral 

 or sub-terminal, 1-3 m.m. wide, irregular in shape, sub-stipitate.. 

 margins entire, concolorous with thallus. 



Spores 8, straight or most frequently so, oval, oval-oblong,, 

 or sub-reniform, 1-septate, hyaline, pale golden yellow with iodine, 

 (•013- -015 x •004--005) m.m. Paraphyses somewhat thick, not as 

 freely separating as in allied species. Hymenial gelatine with 

 iodine deep blue ; gonidia broader than spores. From the original 

 specimen. 



Habitat : Botanic Gardens, Brisbane, on the twigs of sickly 



trees. 



Determined by Rev. F, R. M. Wilson. 



POTina endOChrysa, MonU — Thallus widely spread, thin, 

 fragile, colliculose, glauco-cinereus, beneath bullate. 



Apothecia immersed ; perithecium flavescent, entire, normally 

 globose ; ostiole brown ; paraphyses filiform. 



