04 THE LICHEN FLORA OF QUEENSLAND, 



pale olive, granular, spherical, oval, or pyriform '002 m.m. 

 in diameter. 



Ilab.— Mount Mistake. 



M. v. tenella, MM. Arg. V v. M. in litt. F.M.B 

 K. v. radiata, Ft: Mount Mistake. 



3. C. cerv.cornis, Ach (K + C — ). 



Thallus eahspitose, narrowly laciniato-multifid, crenafce, 

 cartilaginous, glaucous-green above, white beneath, purplish- 

 black at base. The margins of fronds are at times soredi- 

 ferous. Podetia from disk of laciniae, short, slender, smooth 

 or subverrucose, scyphiphorous ; scyphi small and leafless, 

 Sn. or irregularly proliferous, and more or less squamose. Spores 

 spherical, pale green, not distinctly granular, with diameter 

 •0027 — '005 in.m. Spermagones spherical, sessile or 

 substipitate, brown to black, with almost invisible pore, 

 seated on the margins or upper surface of the thalline 

 lacinuhe ; cavity simple; sterigmata fine, short, ramose; 

 spermatia curved, cylindrical, of extreme tenuity. 



Hob. — Common on the ground along the banks of rivers. 



** Phaiocarpai — Microphyllinre, with scyphi. 



4. (J. pityrea, Flatrke (K — — ) 



Thallus squamulose, ashy-green. Podetia pulverulent- 

 granulose-furfuraceous, ashy-white, smooth and decorticate, 

 and c\ften ribbed and laciniose <m the upper part. Scyphi 

 M cyathifon.u, more or less proliferous. The podetia sometimes 

 bear squan^ose leaflets ; they are coralloid, little branched, 

 and with brown tubercles. This plant may be easily con- 

 founded with O. macilenta in a sterile condition, or in the 

 squamulose forms with C. squamosa v. frondosa. 



Syn. — C. pyxidata v. pityrae. 



Ilab. — Woods and banks, Main Range, near Toowoomba. 

 *** Phajocarpa. 1 , M.'crophylliiKC, scyphi minute or none. 



5 C. lepidula, Kremp. (Iv + ) 



Thallus horizontal of microphylline squarnules, grey, or pale 

 greenish grey, simple <or crenately lacinulate ; podetia erect 



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