9G THE LICHEN FLORA OF QUEENSLAND, 



ones subulate, bifurcate. Apothecia pale-brown or red- 

 brown, small ; spores oblong. 



9. C. squamulosa, Mull. Arg. 



M Victorian Naturalist, October, 1887. 



Erythrocarp.*: — tubercles red or scarlet. 



10. C. macilenta Hffm. (K + C— ) 



Thallus of pale-green leaflets, crcnate or incised, or squauiu- 

 lose. Podetia hoary, granular or pulverulent, cylindrical, 

 t, — 1 in. high, slender, simple, sometimes shortly divided at 

 Sn. the apex, ascyphons. Apothecia in red masses, as capitula 

 fc< these simple podetia, conglomerate or polycephalous, 

 tubercled. Theca} clavite-cylindrical or flask-shaped ; 

 spores in the narrow part in a single series, in the broad 

 part hidden by the deep blue of the iodine, simple, often 

 2-granular, ovate, or ovate-oblong, -0018— -002 x '0009— 

 •001 m-m., hyaline. 



Syn. — Cenomyce filiformis, I look; Cladonia coccitera, Mudd.\ 

 Oladonia coccifera v. macilenta, Aludd. ; C. digitata v. 

 macilenta, Hoffm. 



H ib. — Common round Brisbane at the base of stump?. 



11. O. Flcerkeana, Fries. (K — C — ) 



Thallus squamulose at the base, evanescent ; squamules 

 crenate-incised or crenate, scanty ; podetia white or brown, 

 1 — ll, in,, cylindrical, slender, cartilaginous, cortex glab- 

 rous, continuously corticulate, verruculose or squamulose- 

 decorticate, nigrescent at the base, apex obtuse, often 

 Sn. obsoletely scyphiphorous or thickened or shortly divided. 

 Scales and granules innate. Apothecia bright scarlet, often 

 conglomerated ; spores oblong -008 — *0105 x # 003 m.m. 

 Ifab. — On logs near 4-Mile Swamp. 



Ill,— Cladina, Nyl 



Horizontal thallus leafless ; podetia commonly without 

 scyphi, branched, the branches sharply pointed, a cortex 

 not splitting up and powdery, although sometimes evanes- 

 cent, and thus denuding the subarachnoid medullary 

 stratum. 



