SPHINCTRINA| CALICIACEX 5 i 
1. 8. turbinata Fr. 1. c. & Summ. Veg. p. 366 (1849) (as a 
fungus); De Not. 1. ¢—Thallus wanting. Apothecia small, 
globose or somewhat top-shaped, shortly stalked or almost 
sessile ; spores protruding in a mass from the narrowed disc, 
globose or subglobose, small, 3-8 in diam.; hymenial gelatine 
pale bluish then sordid dark-coloured with iodine.—Nyl. Syn. 
Lich. i. p. 142, t. 5,f. 1; Mudd Man. p. 255, t. 4, £. 102 ; Cromb. 
Lich. Brit. p. 11; Leight. Lich. FI. p. 38;'ed. 3, p. 38. Lichen 
gelasinatus With. Arr. ed. 3, iv. p. 8, t. 31, f..1 (1796)? Calicium 
turbinatum Pers. Tent. Disp. Meth. Fung. Suppl. p. 59 (1797). 
C. sessile Pers. 1.c.; Engl. Bot. t. 2520; Turn. & Borr. Lich. Brit. 
p- 128; Hook. in Sm. Engl. Fl. v. p. 138. C stigonellum Ach. 
Meth. p. 88 (1803). Spheria sphincterica Sowerb. Engl. Bot. iii. 
t. 386, fig. 1 (1803). <Acoliwm stigonellum 8. F. Gray Nat. Arr. i. 
p. 482 (1821). 
Hasice. Leight. n. 132; Mudd n, 241. Carroll Lich. Hib. 
n. 26; Johns. n. 168. 
The apothecia are usually numerous on the host, though scarcely 
visible without a lens. The spermogones are scattered among the 
apothecia and are not infrequent with spermatia 12-15 pw x 1 up. 
Lichen gelasinatus With. is somewhat doubtful, both in description 
and in figure. 
Hab. Parasitic on the thallus of Pertusaria communis and some- 
times of P. fallax, on the trunks of trees, chiefly oaks.—Distr. 
General and not uncommon in England and in 8. and Central Scotland, 
rare in Ireland.—B. M. Rozel, Jersey; Guernsey; near Withiel, 
Cornwall; Ventnor, Isle of Wight; New Forest, Hants; Balcombe 
Hurst, Wakehurst, Danny, Henfield and St. Leonard’s Forest, 
Sussex; Sibertswold, Kent; Shiere, Surrey; Great Totham and 
Gosfield Hall, Essex; Chedworth Woods and Oakley Park, near 
Cirencester, Gloucestershire; near Worcester; Shrewsbury, Shrop- 
shire; Llanbrynmair, Montgomeryshire ; Hay Wood, Herefordshire ; 
Leven’s Park, Westmoreland; near Ayton, Cleveland, Yorkshire; 
New Galloway, Kircudbrightshire ; Roseneath, Dumbartonshire ; 
Pitfour, Carse of Gowrie, Perthshire; Blarney and Andrum, Cork; 
Curraghmore near Waterford; Glenstale, Tipperary. 
2. 8. tubeformis Massal. Mem. Lich. p. 155, f. 190 (1855) ; 
Jatta Syll. Lich. Ital. p. 477 (1900)—Thallus none. Apothecia 
minute, sessile or shortly stalked, globose or somewhat top- 
shaped ; spores fusiform-ellipsoid, large, 11-16 » long, 7-8 p» 
thick ; hymenial gelatine faintly bluish with iodine.— S. micro- 
cephala Nyl. in Act. Soc. Linn. Bord. sér. 3, i. p. 280 (1856) ; 
Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 11 & Monogr. i. p. 84; Leight. Lich. FI. 
p. 39; ed. 3, p. 38. S. turbinata var. microcephala Mudd Man. 
p- 256 (1861). Calicium microcephalum Tul. in Ann. Sci. Nat. 
sér. 3, xvii. p. 78, t. 15, f. 20 (1852) (non Ach.). 
Closely allied to the preceding but with rather smaller more 
scattered apothecia, and larger differently shaped spores. Lahm 
(Jahresb. Westf. Prov. Ver. xii. p. 138 (1886) ) states that he found 
growing on the same Pertusaria (P. leioplaca) spermogones which 
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