160 NEW STATION FOR LECANORA RUBRA. 
for as soon as the oolite came on, the paucity of species common 
on the lias was most striking, and we at once saw the superiority 
of our own district over the one we had just entered. However, 
we felt amply rewarded for our journey by discovering on old 
Elm-trees, on the margin of the Rie, the elegant Lichen Leca- 
nora rubra. In all our correspondence and exchanges of speci- 
mens it had not before come into our hands, from which we were 
led to conclude it was extremely local. As the figure im ‘ English 
Botany,’ t. 2218, is from a specimen found by W. Borrer on the 
bark of old Elm-trees near Greta Bridge, Yorkshire, and W. J. 
Hooker giving the same locality and authority, I forwarded the 
former gentleman a specimen, and received from him the follow- 
ing kind note :— 
“T am glad to see Lecanora rubra from a new place. I have’ 
not a duplicate left of my own gathering, nor have I ever met with 
the species again since I found it near Greta Bridge, in 1810, 
unless some patches of thallus, without apothecia, on Elms, near 
Malvern. I cannot direct you to the one treé on which I saw it 
in 1810: I only know that it was im a hedge near a footpath by 
which I was walking from the inn at Greta Bridge to the bridge 
over the Tees by Higeleston Abbey. In a visit to Greta Bridge a 
few years ago I Raa for the place in vain, not finding even ane 
footpath. My ceher British specimens of this Teun are two 
morsels from Dickson, marked by him ‘ Lichen marmoreus, on 
wood ;? and another morsel from Mr. Salwey, ‘on decayed moss, 
Jrom Wigmore Castle, Herefordshire. 1 thank you for the spe- 
cimen.” 
My object for inserting this is not only to record the locality, 
but to ascertain whether it has been met with by any other bo- 
tanists ; if so, I shall be most happy to exchange specimens with 
them. 
Since the Lichens of Cleveland were recorded by my com- 
panion many other species have been met with, among which are 
several entirely new. I am glad to find it is his intention to give 
to the readers of the ‘ Phytologist’ his discoveries. It will then 
be seen that this district, so long neglected by Bus is the 
richest in the kingdom. . 
