24 CONIOCARPINE [SPHEROPHORUS 
size, irregularly dehiscent above ; spores spherical, 9-15 pw in 
diameter.—S. coralloides Pers. in Ust. Ann. Bot. vii. p. 23 
(1794) ; Hook. Fl. Scot. ii. p. 67 & in Sm. Engl. Fl. v. p. 232 
(incl. var. laxwwm, excl. var. cespitosum); 8. F. Gray Nat. Arr. i. 
p- 487; Tayl. in Mackay Fl. Hib. ii. p. 83 (excel. vars.) ; Turn. 
& Borr. Lich. Brit. p. 110 (excl. var. cxspitosum); Leight. 
Angioc. Lich. p. 7, t. 1, fig. 1 (incl. var. lawum, excl. var. 
cespitosum) & Lich. Fl. p. 50; ed. 3, p. 48; Mudd Man. p. 263, 
t. 5, fig. 109; Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 15 & Monogr. i. p. 104, 
fig. 28 (incl. f. congestus Lamy in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. xxv. p. 349 
(1878) ). Lichenoides non tubulosum ramosissimum, fruticuli specie, 
cinereo-fuscum Dill. in Ray Syn. ed. 3, p. 65, n. 9 (1724). 
Coralloides cupressiforme, capitulis globosis Dill. Hist. Muse. 
p. 117, t. 17, fig. 35 (1741). Lichen globosus Huds. Fl). Angl. 
p. 460 (1762). L. globiferus L. Mant. p. 133 (1767); Lightf. 
Fl. Scot. ii. p. 887 (1777); Engl. Bot. t. 115 ; With. Arr. ed. 3, 
iv. p. 40. 
iaibé. Bohl. n. 5; Johns. n, 208; Leight. n. 316; Mudd 
n. 253. 
Distinguished from the preceding by the rounded laxly-growing 
thallus, the shorter branches, and the more globose apothecia. It 
occurs in extensive patches, varying in colour from bluish-grey in 
shady, to brownish or even reddish, in exposed situations. The 
apothecia remain closed for a considerable time ; the spermogones are 
similar to those of S. melanocarpus, though more frequent. Hudson's 
Lichen globosus was based on Dillenius, t. 17, fig. 35. Form con- 
gestus is, as Crombie suggested, a stunted condition of the species ; 
there are numerous connecting stages. 
Hab. On rocks and boulders, rarely on the mossy roots of trees.— 
Distr. General and common in the hilly and mountainous tracts of 
Great Britain and Ireland, rarer in the Channel Islands.—B. M. 
Island of Guernsey; near Wring Cheese, near Penzance, and Hel- 
minton, Cornwall; Dartmoor, Bovey Tratey, and Lustleigh Cleeve, 
Devon; Eridge rocks and Ardingly, Sussex ; Tunbridge Wells, Kent; 
Buckstone, near Monmouth; Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire ; 
Malvern Hills, Worcestershire; Cader Idris, Cwm Bychan, and 
Aberdovey, Merioneth; Caer Caradoc and Pentregaer, Oswestry, 
Shropshire; Trefriw, Capel Curig, Llanberis, and Conway Falls, Car- 
narvonshire; Cromford Moor, near Matlock, Derbyshire; Kildale 
Moor, Cleveland, Yorkshire; Egglestone, Durham ; Kentmere, West- 
moreland; The Cheviots, Northumberland; New Galloway, Kirkeud- 
brightshire ; Pentland Hills and Dalmahoy Hill, near Edinburgh; 
Inverary and Loch Creran, Argyll; Nigg, Kincardineshire; Sidlaw 
Hills, Reeky Linn, and Clova, Forfarshire; Loch Rannoch, Craig 
Calliach, near Crieff, Bracklinn Bridge, Ben Lawers, and Falls of 
Bruar, Perthshire ; Lochnagar, Craig Coinnoch, Morrone, Braemar, 
Aberdeenshire ; Glen Nevis, Invernessshire; near Nairn; Applecross, 
Rossshire ; Forres, Elginshire; near Lairg, Sutherland; Achill 
Island and Croaghmore, Clare Island, Mayo; Devis Mt., Antrim. 
3. §. fragilis Pers. in Ust. Ann. Bot. vii. p. 23 (1794).— 
Thallus more or less densely cxspitose, sparingly and dichoto- 
