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THE LICHEN FLORA OF QUEENSLAND, 



Rev. F. R. M. Wilson in litt. says, " I have two smal 

 specimens, found on a tree in Gippsland, crowded with 

 endocarpoid apothecia, visible on the surface as minute, 

 flattened, fuscescent verruca\" 

 IT ab, — Hill End, on rocks. 



Family III. — Myriangiacei. 



Thalamium cellulose, with superimposed theciferous cavities. 

 Leight. Lich. Fl. Gt. Brit. p. 5. 



I. — Myriangium., Mint. 4' Berk. 



Thallus black, nodoloso-pulvinate cellulose, unstratified. 

 Apothecia sub lecanorine, splneroideo-cellulose. Spores 8, 

 colourless, oblong, irregularly septate, or almost murally 

 divided. Leigh. Lich. Flor. G. Brit. p. 37. This genus 

 nearly approaches Lichinei on account of its conceptacular 

 fruit, as it does also in habit, but the disk is ultimately well 

 opened in M. Curtisii. The cells in which the asei are 

 contained may he compared with the arrangement of the 

 asei mi Graphis Leprevosfeii. Berk. Crypt. Bot. p. 408. 

 M Duritei, M. & B. 



Usually parasitic on Lecideas or Lecanoras ; easily recog- 

 1) nised as blaek-brown conical heaps, '1 — •> m.m. in diameter) 

 sometimes mistaken as fungi. Thallus none. Apothecia 

 tuherculiform, breaking forth from the matrix, with thick 

 parenchymatous carbonaceous border, epithecium carbonace- 

 ous, hymenium parenchymatous, yellow-brown, multivesi- 

 cular: vesicles scattered, separate ; spores enclosed in glo- 

 bose asei ; no paraphyses. Spores »S, oblong, at either end 

 obtuse, somewhat incurved, hyaline, normally 8-septate 

 ■02x 0075 m.m. Hym. gel. vinous red with iodine. " The 

 spores of the Queensland specimens are usually smaller, and 

 the cells constituting the mass of the thallus are darker ami 

 more opaque than in those of European growth." Dr. 

 Knight in litt, F. M. B. 

 yn. — Collema glomerulosum, TayL 



Jfab —Common on twigs and small branches in coast i^erubs. 



