82 . CYCLOCARPINEX [PARMELIELLA 
Var. incrassata A. L. Sm.—Thallus thick, of densely crowded 
closely packed upright squamules, the whole coarsely cracked, 
brownish-grey on a black hypothallus. Apothecia very rare, 
convex, brownish-black.—Pannaria triptophylla var. incrassata 
Nyl. in Not. Sallsk. Faun. & Fl. Fenn. Forh. v. p. 124 (1866). 
P. lasiella Stirton in Scott. Nat. iv. p. 164 (1877-8). Pannularia 
triptophylla var. incrassata Cromb, in Grevillea xviii. p. 44 
(1889) & Monogr, i. p. 341. 
Differs from the species in the more massive thallus. 
Hab. On trunks of old trees, rarely on mossy ground among rocks, 
in upland wooded districts.—Dzstr. Local and scarce in the Scottish 
Highlands.—B. M. Barcaldine, Argyll; Glen Lochay, Killin, Perth- 
shire. 
2. P. microphylla Miill.-Arg. in Flora Ixxii. p. 507 (1889).— 
Thallus subdeterminate, minutely squamulose, irregularly cracked, 
the squamules closely imbricate, crenate, tawny- or pale-grey, 
often whitish at the margins, hypothallus brownish-black. 
Apothecia rather small, usually convex, brownish or reddish, 
internally pale ; paraphyses dark at the tips ; spores ellipsoid, 
guttulate, 10-17 » long, 5-8 w thick ; hymenial gelatine bluish 
then wine-red with iodine. Lichen wmicrophyllus Swartz ex 
Westr. in Vet. Acad. Handl. xii. p. 301 (1791). LL. escharoides 
Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 1247 (1803)? Lecidea coronata var. escharoides 
Hook. in Sm. Engl. Fl. v. p. 182 (1833). Pannaria microphylla 
Massa]. Ric. Lich. p. 112 (1852); Mudd Man. p. 123; Oromb. 
Lich, Brit. p. 42; Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 166; ed. 3, p. 152. 
Pannularia microphylla Stiz. Lich. Helv. p. 82 (1882-3) ; Cromb. 
Monogr. i, p. 340. 
Exsicc. Larb. Cesar. n. 71 & Lich. Hb. n. 89. 
Well characterized by the minute Palate imbricate squamules. 
The apothecia are scattered or crowded. 
Hab. On rocks or on the ground in maritime districts.—Disé¢r. 
Rather rare in the Channel Islands and W. Scotland, more frequent 
in W. Ireland.—B. M. Guernsey; Rozel, Jersey; near Penzance, 
Cornwall; Loch Creran and Barcaldine, Argyll; Connemara, Galway; 
near Croagh Patrick and Clare Island, Mayo. 
Var. cheilea A. L. Sm.—Thallus darker than in the species, 
not whitish at the margins. Apothecia somewhat immersed and 
plane, spores ellipsoid-oblong, frequently 1-septate.—Pannaria 
cheilea Nyl. ex Mudd Man. p. 126 (1861); Cromb. Lich. Brit. 
p. 43; Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 169; ed. 3, p. 155.  Massalongia 
cheilea Mudd 1. e.—Pannularia microphylla £. cheilea Nyl. ex 
Cromb. in Grevillea xviii. p. 43 (1889) & Monogr. i. p. 341. 
Like the species except in the darker thallus and the septate 
spores, which Nylander considered to be only spuriously septate (Syn. 
Lich. ii. p. 35 (1885) ). 
Hab. On damp schistose rocks.—Distr. Local and scarce in 
