BY JOHN SHIRLEY, 15. SC. 



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Tribe III. — Ba?omycetei, NyL 



Thallus horizontal, crustaceous. Apothecia pale red or 

 brown, sessile or stipitate. Spores simple r.r septate. 



• I. — B.eomyce>, Pers. 



Thallus horizontally expanded, crustaceous, scaly, powdery or 

 granular. Apothecia biatorine, sessile or stipitate, pale pink or 

 flesh coloured or dirty white, relate, becoming spongy and araneose 

 within ; stipes consisting of longitudinal filaments, solid, destitute 

 of a cortical layer, simple or divided. Spores simple or 1-3 septate. 

 Spermagonia furnished with cylindrical arthrosterigmata. 



1. B. roseus Pers. (K faint yellow). 



Thallus white, leprose-tartareous, granular, verrucose, or 

 crustaceous. Apothecia stipitate, capitulate, pale rose-pink, 

 sub-globose or with wavy surface and margin, Thailus 



Sn. occasionally isidioid with sterile stipes which are then ventri- 

 cose at the apex. Thecaj long, linear and slender, not blue 

 with iodine ; spores 6-8, fusiform or fusiform-oblong, 

 elongated, simple, pale yellow with iodine, -000 — *012x 

 •002 — -0025 m.m. Paraphyses coarse, granular, matted, 

 dull-bro^n with I. 



Hab — Common on clayey banks, Hill End, Taylor's Range, 

 and Petrie's Quarries. 



Tribe IV. — Steroeocaulei, Ayf, 



Thallus shrubby, tufted, with a solid medullary axis, around 

 which the white exterior fragile granulose portions of the 

 thallus are congregated. Apothecia black or brown, ter- 

 minal or lateral, with very rarely an obscure thauine border. 



I . — Stekeoc a ctlon, Sch reb . 



Podetia covered with fi agile granules of various forms. 

 Apothecia fuscous or fusco-pallescent. Spores cylindrical- 

 fusiform, with fe\> or many septa (3-0). Sterigmata straight. 

 Spermatia aciculari-bacillar, straight, or slightly curved. 

 Cortical layer often covered with wart-like growths, pallid 

 scrobiculate or sub-pedicellate, called cephalodia. 



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