110 
ON LIQUIDAMBAR FOKMOSANA, HANdK. 
Mountain oyer Akreyri. (This fine 
Lichen occurs also in Spitsbergen, 
hut not in Lapland.) 
Alectoria ochroleuca, (Ehrh.) Fr. y 0. 
cincinnata, Fr. Frequent. 
Cetraria Islandica, L. Near Akreyri, 
sparingly. 
Platysma nivale, (L.) Nyl. Frequent. 
P. Fahlunense, (L.) Nyl. Mountain 
over Akreyri. 
Parmelia lanata, (L.) Nyl. Ditto. 
Physcia caesia, (Effm.) Nyl. On lava 
blocks. 
P. obacura, {Ehrh.) Nyl. Akreyri. 
P. tychnea, (Ach.) Nyl. Ditto. 
Umbilicaria arctics, (Ach) Fr. 
Squamaria gelida, (L.) Nyl. On lava. 
Lecanora auranliaca, (Lightf.) Nyl. 
On lava and basalt, South of Iceland. 
L. subepulotica, Nyl. Ditto. On lava 
sent by Dr. Hjaltelin. 
L. subfusca, Ach., var. atrynea, Ach. 
Krisuvik.— Herb. Carroll. 
L. badia, Ach. f., cinerascens, Nyl. 
On a boulder near Akreyri. 
Lecidea decipiens, Ach. South of Ice- 
land . 
L. sabuletorum, Flk. 9 var. milliaria. 
Akreyri. 
L. sabuletorum, Flic., var. simplicior, 
Nyl. Mountain over Akreyri. 
L. parasema, Ach. On lava or basalt, 
sent by Dr. Hjaltelin. 
L.petrcea, Ach., var. excentrica, Ach. 
On lava, sent by Dr. Hjaltelin. 
L. (Ederii, Ach. Ditto. 
L. panceola, Ach. Ditto. 
Verrucaria margacea, Whlnb., var. 
asthiobola, Wahl. On pebbles 
near Akreyri, etc. 
ON LIQUIDAMBAR FORMOSANA, Hance. 
By H. F. Hance, Ph.D., etc. 
Amongst a small collection of plants sent me from Formosa by the 
late Mr. Richard Oldham was a fine Liquidambar, found growing m 
some abundance in the forests around Tam-sui in April, 1864. ihis 
species is tlie more interesting from belonging strictly to the genus as 
lately circumscribed by Professor Oliver, who has revived Althigia, ot 
Noronha, for the other two East Asiatic species, L. allingia, Bl., ana 
L. Chinensis, Benth. It has been described by me, under the name at 
the head of this article, in a paper on new and critical Chinese plants, 
printed in the Paris i Annales des Sciences Naturelles,'* the publication 
of which was long unavoidably delayed from causes independent of my 
control. The leaves have usually three (with more rarely two addi- 
tional abbreviated basal) lobes, and these are gradually produced from 
a very broad base into a much attenuated acumen, and are not dis- 
* Annales des Sc. Nat., Botanique, ser. 5, vol. v. p. 215 ; March, 1866. 
