BY JOHN SHIRLEY, B. SC. 



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Apothecia *6-l mm broad, with vermilion coloured disks, and 

 pale yellow grey borders. Theea? cylindrical, deep blue with iodine. 

 Paraphyses golden yellow with iodine, matted, tips agglutinated. 

 Spores globular, oval or oblong, sometimes curve.!, simple, pellucid, 

 with a thick spore coat, -0O36--OO5 x -003- < 0035 mm. 



Habitat : Mount Perry, on rock?. — J. Keys. 



5. Lecanora Queensland iae, C.K.— Thallus a dirty 



white or faded yellow, granular, in small round granules somewhat 

 resembling the verruca? of Pertusaria, the granules separated by a 

 fine fissure-netting ; surface of thallus irregular, following the 

 roughened bark. 



Apothecia raised above the surface, very numerous in the 

 central portion of the thallus, '7-*9 mm in diameter : disk waxy in 

 appearance and pale red, margin beautifully crenulate from the 

 earliest stages, solid, thallinc, rosary-like. Spores simple, pellucid, 

 oval, thickly coated, contents somewhat granular, 005--008 mm x 

 •002--0035 mm. 



Habitat : Mount Perry, on bark. 



This closely resembles, if it is not actually the same lichen as 

 that determined by the Rev. W. A. Leighton as L. pinguid Tuck. 

 — J. Keys. 



6. ThelOtrema expanSU.m, C. K. Thallus pale- 

 brown, smooth, evenly spread, generally well defined by a 

 narrow, almost black, hypothalline border. Apothecia showing as 

 punctures through the thallus, with thalline and true excipula, latter 

 rupture and curl and become irregular ; disk dark-brown in the 

 centre and darker at margins, 1*5 mm. in diameter. Theca? 

 clavate-cylindrical. Spores oblong or narrowly oval, occasionally 

 ovate-fusiform, somewhat pointed at each end, brown, 5-7 septate ; 

 loculi narrow-oval or oblong, -0 18- 025 x -0036--005 mm. Para- 

 physes capillary, discrete, cloudy yellow- brown with io line. Hy menial 

 gelatine with iodine remaining brown. 



Habitat : — On bark, Hill End, South Brisbane. — J. Shirley. 



