156 LICHENES. [Gyrophora. 



pieces ; apothecia subglobose, much plaited. Ach. L. Un. p. 

 228. Eng. Bot. t. 931. 



On rocks on Tonlagee, County of Wicklow. Our specimens are 

 tufted, the lobes sinuate, nearly linear. The cuticle sometimes has a 

 minute subrotund rupture on the upper surface, where clusters of fibres, 

 such as are found beneath the thallus, occur ; among them, sometimes 

 a minute frond may be observed to expand, but such new fronds are 

 oftener observed at the margins of the thallus. 



The foregoing account of the Lichens of Ireland would have been 

 still more incomplete, but for the extensive collection of my lamented 

 friend, the late Mr. John Templeton, of Cranmore, near Belfast, which 

 his relict, Mrs. Templeton, most liberally placed at my disposal. I 

 believe that thirty years ago his acquirements in the Natural History of 

 organised beings rivalled that of any individual in Europe : these were 

 by no means limited to diagnostic marks, but extended to all the laws 

 and modifications of the living force. The frequent quotation of his 

 authority in every preceding department of this Flora, is but a brief 

 testimony of his diversified knowledge. 



