86 THE LICHEN' FLORA OF QUEENSLAND, 



Sn. large (2-5 — o ui.m ), bordere 1 oy a plicate-rugose, or plieate- 

 iobulate thalline border : spores 8, colourless, 5-septate, 

 murali-divided, elliptical, narrowing at both ends, the trans- 

 verse divisions few in number, •{)'•) — "031: x -012 — "015 m.m. 

 Hab. — Variety i$i(tio$ian, growing over moss in damp 

 places, Helidon ; v. (uclauun, on rocks, Hill End, South 

 Brisbane. 



*** Thallus blackish. 



5. L. corrugatulum, A'///. 



Thallus blackish-brown ab »ve, olive-g-een below, nodulose- 

 eomplicate, tolerably small, the whole surface thickly 

 M crowded with folds, or granulate wrinkles, or scurfy scales ; 

 opaque. Apothecia crowded in thalline receptacles, sub- 

 globose, probably thus in a young state ; spores not seen. 



6. L. tremelloides v, pichneutn. Ach. 



Thallus dull black, thick, surface irregular and broken with 

 patches of sooty soredia, here and there showing the smooth, 

 pitchy surface of the unaltered frond. Margins simple, 

 SOredioid above, showing blue-black h'hrilhe below. No 

 apothecia. 



K Dr. Knight in litt. F. M. B. says, ' Species extremely un- 

 certain in the absence of fruit — the colour is peculiar, and 

 much darker than any specimen of L. tiemelloides. I feel 

 quite certain the lichen is new." 



I/'ih. In large patches 1 -2 f'e< t in diameter on scrub treys 

 Mt Mistake. 



**** Thallus dull, einerascent. 



7. L. byssinuni, Hojfm. 



Thallus einerascent, lightly corallinoid - granulose, effuse, 

 exceedingly friable. Apothecia biatoiine, pallid or obscure, 

 red. Spores H, ovoid or ovoid-oblong, often 8-septate or 

 M further sparingly divided longitudinally (i.e. between the 

 transverse septa) ; '02 - -'027 X '008 — '012 m.m. 



Th's plant is given in the Synopsis Queend. Fl, p. 742, 

 as Phtfvma byssinum A/a**, an evident mistake, as Physma 



