120 CYCLOCARPINE® _[PARMELIA 
Rothiemurchus and Glen Morriston, Invernessshire; Forres, Elgin- 
shire; Lairg, Sutherland; Unst, Shetland; near Cork; Dunkerron, 
Kerry. 
Var. tubulosa Mudd Man. p. 97 (1861).—Thallus lobes 
tubular, erect, ascending, turgid and sorediate at the tips.— 
Var. labrosa Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 36 pro parte; Leight. Lich. 
Fl. p. 126; ed. 3, p. 117; f. tubulosa Cromb. Monogr. i. p. 259 
(1894). P. ceratophylla var. tubulosa Scher. Enum. p. 42 (1850). 
Lichen physodes Engl. Bot. t. 126, lower fig. (1793). 
Ezxsicc. Johns. n. 124; Leight. n. 48 pro parte; Mudd n. 70 
pro parte. 
Well marked by the cylindrical hollow lobes, which branch out 
from the substratum. It is more confined to hilly districts than the 
species. Apothecia are rarely found. 
Hab. On trees and stone walls in maritime and upland districts.— 
Distr. Fairly general and common in Great Britain B. M. Near 
Penzance and Withiel, Cornwall; Lustleigh Cleeve, Devon; Leith 
Hill, Surrey; Malvern Hills, Worcestershire; Sweeny, Shropshire ; 
near Monmouth; Rhewgreidden, Merioneth; Bettws-y-Coed and 
Beddgelert, Carnarvonshire; Kildale Moor, Baysdale and Lounsdale, 
Cleveland, Yorkshire; near Kendal, Westmoreland; Asby, Cumber- 
land; New Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire; Ben Lawers, Killin and 
Abernethy, Perthshire ; Park and Hill of Ardo, Aberdeenshire; Rothie- 
murchus Woods, Invernessshire ; Lairg, Sutherland. 
Var. platyphylla Ach. Meth. Lich. p. 251 (1803),—Lobes 
rather wide, wrinkled and plicate, rounded and rather deeply 
crenate at the circumference, more or less sorediate at the tips, 
generally towards the centre. Apothecia not common.—Leight. 
Lich. Fl. p. 126; ed. 3, p. 117. 
Exsicc. Larb. Lich. Hb. n. 329. 
The crowded wrinkled sometimes almost, tuberculose thallus 
distinguishes the variety. The whole plant has an undivided mono- 
phyllous appearance. 
Hab. On old palings and stone walls in maritime and hilly districts. 
—Distr. General though not common throughout the British Isles.— 
B. M. Boulay Bay, Jersey; New Forest, Hampshire; Brading, I. of 
Wight; Lydd, Kent; Harboro’ Magna, Warwickshire; near Bar- 
mouth, Merioneth; Killin, Craig Tulloch, Ben Lawers, Trossachs and 
Aberfeldy, Perthshire; Guthrie, Forfarshire; near Nigg, Kincardine- 
shire; Rothiemurchus, Invernessshire. 
Form fuscescens Cromb. Monogr. i. p. 260 (1894),—Differs 
from var. platyphylla in the brown-coloured thallus and in_ the 
greater rarity of soredia.—Parmelia physodes var. obscurata 
Cromb. in Journ. Bot. xiv. p. 360 (1876) (non Ach.) ; Leight, 
Lich. Fl. ed. 3, p. 118. 
Crombie suggests that the colour of the thallus may be due to 
the habitat by the sea. 
Hab. On old palings in maritime districts.—Distr. Local in 8.E. 
