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Summit of Pendle. Hill; Waterhead, March 1909, W. Watson! 
Peaty banks, Black Hill, Sabden, Мау 1912; Withnell Moor, G. H. 
Hopley! Noyna, near Colne. On railway-banks, Walton, Liverpool. 
f. VIRIDULA, Cromb. Summit of Boulsworth Hill, May 1912, 
LECIDEA ULIGINOSA, Ach. On bare peat, and on thin dry humus on sandy 
ground. Оп the deep, pure peat of the moors it is often associated with 
the next preceding species. [t is not restricted to true peat, as it occurs 
also on thin humus, such as the decaying leaves of Marram grass and 
mosses on the dunes, more especially оп the shady sides. Frequent, and 
ranging from sea-level up to the summit of Pendle Hill, 1830 ft. 
Var. Humosa, Ach. On bare, clayey soil in a sandstone quarry, 
Little Crosby, Aug. 12; also on bare spots on boulder-clay banks of 
R. Mersey at Hale, Aug. 1912. 
LECIDEA FULIGINEA, Ach. On old stumps ; probably more frequent than the 
single record indicates. 
On an old decaying log on the sandhills, Formby, Jan. 14 (sterile). 
LECIDEA ATROFUSCA, Mudd. 
On mortar of an old wall, Watermeetinys, near Colne, May 1913, 
H. Robinson $ И’. G. T. 
LECIDFA IMMERSA, Ach. (/,. calcivora, Ehrh.) 
On limestone rocks near Chatburn Station, March 1907, A. A. Dall- 
mann $ J. А. W. 
LECIDEA OCHRACEA, Wedd. 
On argillaceous limestone rock in a gully above Hook Cliffe, Pendle 
Hill, alt. 750 ft., June 1913. 
LECIDEA PROTRUSA, Fr. 
On old bricks on a colliery refuse-heap, Reeds Moss, Rainford, July 
1914. 
LECIDEA PLEIOSPORA, А. L. Sm. 
On decaying moss and scanty humus, sand-dunes, Freshfield, April 
1912, teste Miss A. L. Smith ; collected again in the same locality, 
April 1914, and it is probably not rare in the dunes on the right kind 
of ground; on the ground, Belmont, near Rivington, June 1912, 
А. Wilson ! 
This lichen was discovered by the Rey. Н.Р. Reader, in 1910, on the soil of a 
disused clay-pit at Little Bowden, Northants, and described and figured by Miss Smith 
as a new species in Journ. Bot. xlix. (1911), р. 41. We had described in MS. our 
Freshfield plant as a new species, but on sending it to Miss Smith, she pointed out 
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