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3. C. stigonellum A. Zahlbr. in Engler & Prantl Pflanzenf. i. 
1*, p. 84 (1903).—Thallus none proper. Apothecia parasitic, 
small or moderate, scarcely prominent, plane, black, the margin 
black, prominent, sometimes pruinose, disappearing ; spores. blunt 
at the apices, l-septate, 9-17 w long, 7-10 p thick.—Calicium 
stigonellum Ach. Meth. p. 88 (1803) pro parte; C. sessile var. 
marginatum Turn. & Borr, Lich. Brit. p. 128 (1839); Hook. in 
Sm. Engl. Fl. v. p. 138. Trachylia stigonella Fr. Summa Veg. 
Scand, p. 118 (1846); Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 15 & Monogr. i. 
p- 102; Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 49; ed. 3, p. 47. <Acolium stigonellum 
Mudd Man. p. 254 (1861). 
Ezsicce. Leight. n. 226; Cromb. n. 11; Johns. n. 401. 
Differs from the other species in the smaller apothecia and in the 
parasitic habit. 
Hab. On the thallus of various Pertusarix.—Distr. General, 
though not common throughout England, rare in Central Scotland.— 
B. M. Lyndhurst, New Forest, Hants; St. Leonard’s Forest, Sussex ; 
Shiere, Surrey; Stansted Mount Fitchet Park, Thorndon Hall, 
Bocking, and Epping Forest, Essex; Cirencester, Gloucestershire ; 
Gopsal], Leicestershire; Hindlip, Worcestershire; Barmouth, 
Merioneth ; Llanforda and Haughmond Hill, Shropshire ; Penmaen- 
mawr, Carnarvonshire ; Easby Wood, Ingleby and Cleveland, York- 
shire ; Leven’s Park, Westmoreland ; Teesdale, Durham ; Ben Lawers, 
Perthshire. 
4. C. Notarisii A. Zahlbr. in Engler & Prantl Pflanzenf. i. 
1*, p. 84 (1903).—Thallus bright greenish yellow, granular- 
areolate. Apothecia innate, plane; spores brownish-black, 
ellipsoid or irregularly globose, 1—5-septate and often with a 
longitudinal septum in one or more of the cells, 14-25 p long, 
10-17 p thick—Acolium Notarisii Tul. in Ann. Sci, Nat. sér. 3, 
xvii. p. 86 (1852). 
Differs from other species in the genus in the aaa spores. 
The apothecia are numerous, each one surrounded by the granular 
brightly-coloured thallus. The only specimen in the herbarium is in 
ones Davies (collected by Larbalestier), under the name Acoliwm 
tigillare. 
ae On worked wood.—B. M. Walton, Suffolk (the only British 
ocality). 
Orper Il. SPHASROPHORACEZ. 
Thallus fruticose (foliose in some foreign genera). Algal 
cells Protococcus. Apothecia sessile, surrounded by the thallus ; 
asci dissolving early, the spores forming a dark-coloured, powdery 
mass (mazeedium). 
There is only one genus represented in Britain :— 
Thallus fruticose. Apothecia terminal.............. 7. Spherophorus. 
7. SPHHROPHORUS Pers. in Ust. Ann. Bot. vii. p. 23 
(1794). (Spherophoron Ach. Meth. p. 134 (1803).) (PI. 7.) 
