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uneven ; apothecia innate, rugosa-defformed ; ostiola open, irregular, 
black ; when wet minutely granulate or papillose, with prominent 
thalline margin ; section of hymenium rather dark, paraphyses 
slender; spores two to four in each ascus, large, ellipsoid, sometimes 
oviform, violet, with a yellowish tinge in the centre ; when K. is 
applied, distinctly and deeply violet ; epispore broad and wavy ; 
paraphyses, asci, and epispore, deep blue with iodine, Thallus K. 
yellow, then deep orange-red. Vide Journal of Botany, 1881, 
p. 113. 
Pilyttis. 
P. agelea, Ach. On trees, Catterlen, near Penrith. Not common. 1879. 
Thelotrema. 
T’. lepadinum, Ach. On the bark of trees, not unfrequent. Calder Abbey ; 
Keswick. 1879, 
Crceolaria. 
U. scruposa, L. On rocks and walls. Not common. Ullock Pike, Bassen- 
thwaite ; St. Bees ; Ennerdale, 1879. 
Forma bryophila, Ach. Grows upon mosses and Cladonia. Rare. 
Ennerdale ; Lamplugh ; Keswick. 1879. 
Tribe—LEcrDEINEI, 
Lecidea. 
L. ochracea, Hepp. On rocks. Not common. Old quarry, Barrowmouth 
bank, Whitehaven. 1880. 
L. lucida, Ach. Citrine-yellow, like a golden dust on shady rocks, under- 
side of stones in walls, ete. Harris Moor ; Hale ; Wastdale ; in 
splendid condition in the nooks of the slaty rock, west side of 
Bassenthwaite Lake. 1879, 
L. flecuosa, Forma eruginosa, Borr. On old rails, decaying wood, ete. 
Cliff top, between Barrowmouth and St. Bees ; Ennerdale, 1879. 
L. spododes, Nyl. On old fence rails. Rare. Asby. 1879. 
_ L. decolorans, Flk. On the earth. The moors, Alston. 1878. 
L, sanguinaria, L. On rocks and mossy trees, frequent. This lichen takes 
its name from, and is easily distinguished by a vein of vermillion- 
red in the medulla of the thallus, and at the base of the apothecia, 
