3S0 DR. LAUDER LrS'DSAT OX THE 



Moss 



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of commerce, formerly largely collected in Norway for the 



ermo 



65. Z7. erom, HiFm. Common on tlie Haalang 



Herbarium 



Kew, from Mount Jolinsknuden, near Kongsberg, L) • A- 

 1828, ia apparently referable bere. 



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QG. U, Jii/perhorea, ILffm, Laurgaard ; Alps of Lapland, Solander 



in Herbarium British Museum. Sommerfelt's DovreQeld 

 specimens in the Herbarium Kew, have si77i^Ie apothecia, 

 and the thalline surface is not much blistered. His Gyro- 

 pJiora tesselhta, Ach., in the Herbarium Kew, also from 

 the Dovrefjeld, seems partly referable here, partly to U- 

 afro'pruinosa. Another Norwegian specimen in the Her- 

 barium Kew is very large, nearly a foot in diameter* 



07. V.flocculosa, Hffm. Jerkin. 



G8. TT. pohjphyUa, Sehrad. Common on the Dovre- 



gen-ijelds. 



69. TJ. stipitafa, ^^yl. Scand. 289. In fruit (simple lecidine apo- 



thccia) . The only specimen recorded in Nylander's ' Scand. 

 is from the Eundanefjeld, Norway, collected by Zetter 

 stedt ; but it was sterile. 

 All the JJmUlicaricd are saxicolous. 



and 



59. Z7. at7'0'pruinosa^ Schc^r. Haalangenfjcld, common. 



60. TT, vellea, Ach. Top of Sneehlitten; Haalangenfjeld, com- 



mon : closely allied to the following ; abundantly fructife- . 

 rous 5 thallus sometimes a foot in diameter. 



61. U. spodochroa, HflFm. (including as a var. Z7. depressa, Ach. ; j 



Scha3r.Exs.l37-140). Christiansand, abundant: l^e largest 

 and most plentiful of all the ISTorw^egian UmhilicaricB ] fre- 

 quent in fruit arid spcrmogoniferous. The " Yelutous 

 Moss " of commerce ; at one time largely imported from 

 Norway, and used in the manufacture in this country ot 

 orchil and cudbear, for which now only the BocceUcs are 

 employed. 



62. Z7, Jiirsiita, Act. Sneehiitten. 



63. U. proboscidea, DC. (U, varia^ var. densta, Leighton, ITmbil. 



17). Sneehatten; Haalangenfjeld : very common. 



64. Z7. cylindrica, Dub. Dovrefjeld, common, frequently spcrmo- 



goniferous. Includes a form w^hich Schperer calls ntidius- 

 citla (Exs. 145), in which the cortical layer of the thallus 

 is eroded, exposing in irregular patches the subjacent white 

 medullary tissue. 



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