RAMALINA | USNEACEE 169 
New Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire; Roslin and Bonally, Midlothian ; 
Bowling Bay, Dumbarton; Barcaldine, Argyll; Loch Tay, Blaeberry 
Hill and Blair Athole, Perthshire ; Guthrie and Tealing, Forfarshire ; 
Den Fenella, Kincardineshire; Abergeldie and Craig Coinnoch, 
Braemar and Countesswells Wood, Aberdeenshire ; Glen Nevis and 
Invermoriston, Invernessshire ; near Strathpeffer, Rossshire ; Lairg, 
Sutherland ; Derriquin, Kerry. 
Form minutula Cromb. in Grevillea vii. p. 141 (1879).— 
Thallus of short slender much branched fastigiate lacinie. 
Apothecia not seen.—Ramalina farinacea var. minutula Ach. 
Lich. Univ. p. 606 (1810); Th. Fr. Lich. Scand. i. p. 37 (1871). 
Lichenoides segmentis argutioribus, ad margines verrucosis et pul- 
verulentis Dill. Hist. Muse. p. 172, t. 23, fig. 63 a (1741), fide 
Cromb. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. p. 570 (1880). 
Considered by Crombie and others to belong to the present species, 
of which it is probably a young and barren state. 
Hab. On palings, chiefly larch, in wooded districts.—Distr. Local 
and scarce in 8. England and in Scotland ; probably overlooked.— 
B. M. New Forest, Hants; Swanston near Edinburgh; Park, near 
Aberdeen ; Lairg, Sutherland. 
4. R. dilacerata Wain. in Medd. Soc. Faun. & Fl. Fenn. xiv. 
pp. 14 & 21 (1886).—Thallus small, in rounded cushion-like 
groups, the lacinie soft, rounded or compressed longitudinally, 
nerved, subpellucid, branched, attenuate, pale straw-coloured 
(medulla K —). Apothecia numerous, small, terminal, plane or 
convex, yellowish flesh-coloured or glaucous, smoothish beneath ; 
spores oblong or fusiform-oblong, straight, 9-15 yp long, 4-6 pu 
thick.—R. calicaris £. minuscula Nyl. in Not. Sillsk. Faun, & FI. 
Fenn. v. p. 114 (1866). RB. minuscula Nyl. in Bull. Soc. Linn. 
Norm. sér. 2, iv. p. 164 (1870); Cromb. in Grevillea xii. p. 142 
& Monogr. i. p. 200. Lobaria dilacerata Hoffm. Deutschl. FI. 
p. 140 (1795) (excl. syn. Dill.). 
Of the same habit as the preceding, but distinguished by the small 
soft thallus and straight spores. The cortex is narrow, with a narrow 
ring of strengthening longitudinal hyphe; the medulla is loose and 
arachnoid. 
Hab. On the branches of conifers and erratic on rocks in moun- 
tainous districts.—B. M. Craig Cluny, Braemar, Aberdeenshire (the 
only British record). 
5. R. geniculata Hook. & Tayl. in Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 
p. 655 (1844).—Thallus rather short, the laciniz smooth, longi- 
tudinally nerved, subcompressed, fistulose and frequently per- 
forated, subfastigiately branched, ending in numerous narrow 
divaricate points, pale or pale straw-coloured (medulla K — ). 
Apothecia moderate in size, sometimes rather large, pale flesh- 
coloured, smooth or wrinkled below ; spores oblong or fusiform- 
oblong, straight or slightly curved, 9-15 » long, 4—7 » thick.—- 
