278 DB. LAUDEB LINDSAY ON ABTIIONXA MELASPEBMELLA. 



PungI, — an experience which doubtless could be confirmed by 

 Currey, Cooke, and other British Fuugologists. 



SphcBvia scoriadea, Pr., Currey suggests may be Yerrucaria con- 

 ferta, Tayl. (a Lichen) * ; and S. micraspis, Berk,, a Pertusaria 

 (also a Lichen) f. The British S, mastoidea^ Pr., which grows on 

 dead ash- twigs, &c. [Berkeley Brit. EungoL 396], is not unfre- 

 quently associated with and mistaken for some of the larger corti- 

 colons VerrucancG J [e. g. F*. gemmata^ Ach., in a specimen from 

 Killamey in the Herbarium of the British Museum]; while 

 Sph(jdria hetulina is associated and confounded with Verrucaria 

 alhissima^ Ach, in Heppe's Exs. 460. 



(which 



§ 



phalodia, or thallus of various species of Sticta^ is regarded as a 

 Lichen by the eminent Fungologist Tulasne ||, while by his fel- 

 low townsman Nylander, an equally eminent Lichenologist, it is 

 considered a Eungus^. 



Scutiila Wallrothii^ TuL, which gives a reaction with iodine 

 varying from blue to wine-red, is considered a Lichen by Tu- 



lasne** and Ny lander (the latter 



ty 



Wallroth 



scribed as a Peziza (P. miliaris). Anzi classes the genera 



Mass 



w 



Mass., and iLrempelhuberia Mass 



Microthelia 



ru€ari<je 1 1 • 



The 



described by him as Psora aporea, a Lichen, he subsequently 

 refers to as a Eungus, under the name of Hymenobia insidiosa §§. 

 JB(£omyces microcephalus, Tayl., El. Hib., is, according to Muddjlll, 



■ w 



* " Synopsis of the Fructification of the compound S^hcerim of the Hooke* 

 rian Herbarium," Trans, Linn. Soc. vol. tym. p, 283. t Ibid. p. 321. 



J For fuller remarks on the Sph<erice in their relation to the VerrucaruB^ ride 

 Mem. Spermog. pp. 105, 107, 112, and 299. 



§ NyL Synopsis, p. 352. 



II "Mem, pour servir i Uhistoire organograqhique et physiologique des 

 Lichens," Ann. des Sc. Nat. (Botany), 3rd ser, voLxvii. (1852) p. 120. 



f Nyl. Lich. Scand. p. 96. *» Mem. Lich. p. 119. 



tt Lich. Scand. p. 203. 



XX Catalogus Lichenum quos in prorincia Sondriensi et circa NoTum* 

 Clomum coUegit Martin Anzi, Introductio, p. ivi : 1860. 



§§ Prodromus Lichenograpliiee Gallice et Algeria, p. 125. 

 Manual, p. 64. 



