NEPHROMIUM] PELTIGERACEE® 103 
Woods, Nairnshire; Glen Nevis, Loch Linnhe, Fort George and Falls 
of Foyers, Invernessshire ; Applecross, Rossshire; Luggelaw, Wicklow; 
Killarney, Kerry; Derryclare, Connemara, Galway; Fairhead, Antrim. 
Form panniforme Cromb. in Grevillea xv. p. 77 (1877) & 
Monogr. i. p. 286.—Thallus of small deeply cut closely imbricate 
lobes, dark in colour above and below. 
Hab. Similar to the species.— Distr. Rare in §8.W. England and 
W. Highlands of Scotland.—B. M. Near Penzance, Cornwall; Bareal- 
dine, Argyll; Glen Lochay, Perthshire ; Loch Linnhe, Invernesgsshire. 
Var. hibernicum Nyl. ex Leight. Lich. Fl. ed. 3, p. 100 
_ (1879).—Differs from the species in the white medulla (K + 
purple) and in the smooth back of the apothecia. 
Hab. Similar to the species.—Distr. Rare in W. England, W. 
Highlands of Scotland and N.W. Iveland.—B. M. Near Launceston, 
Cornwall; near Walkingham, Devon; near Douglas, I. of Man; 
Barcaldine, Argyll; Doughreagh, Connemara, Galway. 
34. SOLORINA Ach. Lich. Univ. p. 27 (1810). (Pl. 34.) 
Thallus foliose, fragile, the upper surface corticate, the under 
surface partly nervose and rhizinose. Algal cells bright-green, 
Dactylococcus, rarely blue-green, Nostoc. Apothecia superficial, 
or urceolate and sunk in the upper surface of the thallus, 
irregularly scattered, reddish- or dark-brown, without a thalline 
margin; paraphyses thickish, septate; spores 2 to 8 in the 
ascus, fusiform-oblong or ellipsoid, 1-sepate, brownish or reddish- 
brown. Spermogones unknown. 
The cephalodia in this genus occur as groups of Nostoc cells with 
surrounding hyphz, embedded in the medulla, on the lower surface 
or| in squamules. The apothecia are developed before the cortex 
covering them is thrown off, hence the term “ veiled apothecia.” 
1. 8. crocea Ach. Lich. Univ. p. 149 (1810).—Thallus 
orbicular, membranaceous, thickish, appressed, smooth or roughish 
on the surface, lobed and crispate, dark-green when moist, 
reddish or brown when dry, the medulla and lower surface deep 
orange or saffron-coloured, with subreticulate nerves and rhizine. 
Apothecia moderate in size or rather large, up to 1 cm. in 
diameter, rather tumid, dark-reddish-brown ; paraphyses stoutish, 
septate ; spores 6-8 in the ascus, oblong or somewhat fusiform, 
l-septate, 35-45 p long, 10-12 w thick.—S. F. Gray Nat. Arr. i. 
p. 429 ; Hook. Fi. Scot. ii. p. 36 & in Sm. Engl. FI. v. p. 214; 
Mudd Man. p. 85; Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 29; Leight. Lich. FI. 
p. 112; ed. 3, p. 106. Lichenoides subtus croceum, peltis appressis 
Dill. Hist. Muse. p. 221, t. 30, fig. 120 (1741). Lichen croceus 
L. Sp. Pl. p. 1149 (1753) ; Lightf. Fl. Scot. ii. p. 856; Huds. FI. 
Angl. ed. 2, p. 548; With. Arr. ed. 3, iv. p. 68; Engl. Bot. 
t. 498. 
