THE LICHEN FLORA OF QUEENSLAND, 



flattish or convex, 1*5 — 4 m.m., green or golden yellow, at 

 length pale brown ; lobes pinnate, shapeless ; margins 

 sinuate, crenate, occasionally incised beneath, brown or 

 brownish with shining surface ; radicles (brown or brown- 

 black rootlets) longish, greater part disposed fascicularly, 

 forming thick felted tomentum ; cyphellas numerous, pallid, 

 M round or oblong, deeply urceolate, or at length narrower at 

 the aperture. Apothecia marginal, sessile, or raised sessile, 

 pale flesh colour, afterwards red, biatorine, margin paler in 

 young ones, flattish, '5-1*5 m.m. within pale lemon coloured; 

 spores 8, uncoloured, simple or ultimately spuriously 1- 

 septate, oblong or fusiform-oblong, here and there rather 

 curved, *009 — '012 x *003 m.m. ; paraphyses crowded, 

 apices slender and speckled (K — ) hypothecium uncoloured. 

 Hym. gel. with iodine intense blue. Spermagonia black, 

 somewhat prominent, wart-shaped, marginal. Proc. R. 

 Soc. Vic. Ap. 1881. 



St/ii. — Trichocladia Baileyi Stirton. 



Hab — On grass land, Brisbane Cemetery, Victoria Park. 

 &c. 



Series III.— Ramalodei, Nyl. 



Thallus shrubby or filamentous, erect or pendulous, terete, 

 compressed^ or angular, without any leaflets, scales, or basal 

 crust, tubular or solid. Apothecia usually lecanorine. 



Tribe VI. — Ramalinei, Nyl. 



Thallus terete or compressed, erect or pendulous, with lax 

 pith or hollow internally. Apothecia with a thallinc border. 

 Paraphyses distinct. Spermatia cylindrical, straight. 



I. — Ramalina, Ach. 



Thallus frutieulose, arising from a common base, erect or 

 pendulous, tufted, pale-coloured, everywhere of similar 

 colour, compressed or leafy, laciniate, lacunose on both 

 sides, having a cartilaginous cortical layer, frequently sore- 

 diferous. Apothecia open from the earliest stages of 

 growth, and seated on a carbonaceous stratum, scattered or 



