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VII. LICHENES. 
[ Lecidea . 
§ 2. Apothecia fiat or convex , rarely black (Biatora, Fries). 
a. Crust scaly , spores simple. 
3. L. parvifolia, Pers. — Biatora , Mont. ; — Bab. in FI. N. Z. ii. 299'. 
Tballus glaucous, scaly ; scales lobulate or incised. Apothecia pale red or 
testaceous, at length convex ; border indistinct ; spores oblong, simple.— 
Nyland. Enum. Lick. 120. 
Northern Island, Colenso. (Cosmopolite in the tropics.) 
/3. Crust granular , powdery or evanescent. Spores simple , oblong or ellipsoid. 
4. L. cinnabarina, Sommerfeldt. — Biatora, Fries ; — Bab. in FI. N. Z. 
ii. 300. t. 129 C. Tballus thin, white, effuse, of minute unequal granules. 
Apothecia scarlet, with an obtuse margin or 0 ; spores small, simple, fusi- 
form. — Nyland. Lick. Scand. 194. 
Northern Island: on branches of shrubs, Colenso. (Europe, America, Australia, Tas- 
mania.) 
5. L. intermixta, Nyland. Tballus thin, white, effuse or evanescent. 
Apothecia brownish, flatfish ; border obtuse or 0 ; spores ellipsoid, 1-septate. 
— Nyland. Lich. Scand. 194. 
Kermadec Island, Milne, on bark. (Cosmopolite.) 
6. L. flavo-pallescens, Nyland. Undescribed. 
Northern Island, Colenso. 
7. L. pyrophthalma, Nyland. — Parmelia, Bab. in FI. N. Z. ii. 293. 
t. 129 A. Tballus very thin, membranous, olive-green, effuse. Apothecia 
at first globose, yellow, at length plane ; disk bright orange ; border quite 
entire, paler; asci filiform; spores cymbiform, 1-septate. — Nyland. Enum. 
121. Biatora , Mont. Sylloge, 339. 
Northern Island, Colenso, on bark. (Chili.) 
8. L. vernalis, Ach. — Biatora, Fries ;— Bab. in FI. N. Z. ii. 300. 
Tballus thin, powdery, ashy or greenish-white or obsolete. Apothecia clus- 
tered, rusty flesh-coloured, convex, white internally, at length often globose; 
spores oblong. — Nyland. Lich. Scand. 200. Biatora anomala, Fries?; Bab. 
in FI. N. Z. 1. c. 
Northern Island: on moss, etc., Colenso, Sinclair. (Europe, etc.) 
9. L. decolorans, Fleer ke. Thallus leprous, grey, with white granula- 
tions, effuse, thin. Apothecia pale brown, blackish or brick-red, opaque, 
flat, with a pale appressed border, white within ; spores ellipsoid, oblong. — 
Nyland. Lich. Scand. 197- 
Northern Islaud, Colenso. (Europe, N. America.) 
10. L. coarctata, Nyland. — Parmelia, Ach.; — Bab. in FI. N. Z. ii. 291. 
Thallus spreading, thin, cracked, greyish, unequal. Apothecia with the disk 
somewhat immersed, at length elevated, flat, black ; border elevated, inflexed, 
coarctate, irregular, pulverulent. — Nyland. Lich. Scand. 196. 
Northern Island, Colenso. (Cosmopolite.) 
