RAMALINA| USNEACEE 171 
shire; Applecross, Rossshire ; near Cork; Dunkerron, Kerry; Glengarry 
Wood and Dugort, Achill Island, Mayo. 
Subsp. intermedia Cromb. in Grevillea xv. p. 47 (1886).— 
Laciniz much branched, crowded, short, smooth, the ultimate 
branchlets slender, otherwise as in the species. —R. minuscula 
subsp. intermedia Del. ex Nyl. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Norm. sér. 2, 
iv. p. 166 (1870). R. intermedia Ny]l. in Flora lvi. p. 66 (1873) ; 
Cromb. in Journ. Bot. xi. p. 133 (1873); Leight. Lich. FI. 
ed. 3, p. 90. 
Exsicc. Larb. Lich. Hb. n. 248. 
Distinguished from the species by the smoother and more slender 
thallus. 
Hab. On branches of shrubs in maritime districts.—Dzistr. Local 
and scarce in the Channel Islands, $.W. England, W. Scotland and 
N.W. Ireland.—B. M. Sark; Annet Island, Scilly; near Penzance, 
Cornwall; Killery Bay, Connemara. 
7. R. pollinaria Ach. Lich. Univ. p. 608 (1810) —Thallus 
suberect, slightly shining, pale straw-coloured or glaucous-green, 
the laciniz compressed, elongate, often rather wide and somewhat 
flacid, very much branched, longitudinally and unequally wrinkled 
and lacunose, the edges often crispate or lacerate, soredia white- 
farinose, scattered over the surface. Apothecia rare, subterminal, 
concave, moderate in size; spores oblong, straight or slightly 
curved, 10-15 y» long, 4-6 p» thick.—S. F. Gray Nat. Arr. i. 
p. 407 ; Hook. in Sm. Engl. Fl. v. p. 225; Tayl. in Mackay FI. 
Hib. ii. p. 85 pro parte; Mudd Man. p. 74; Cromb. Lich. Brit. 
p. 25; Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 95; ed. 2, p. 475; ed. 3, p. 87. 
Lichenoides lacunosum lacerum, latius et angustius Dill. Hist. 
Muse. p. 162, t. 21, fig. 57 p, # (1741). Lichen pollinarius Westr. 
in Vet. Acad. Handl. xvi. p. 56 (1795); Engl. Bot. descr. pro 
parte of t. 1607. LD. farinaceus var. 3, With. Arr. ed. 3, iv. 
pol (1796). 
Ezxsicc. Cromb. n. 130; Mudd n. 46 pro parte. 
Distinguished from R. farinacea by the scattered soredia and by 
the generally wider fronds, from R. evernioides by the longitudinal 
ribbing. It agrees with the latter species in the compact structure of 
the medulla and in the gelatinized firm cortex, but it is also further 
strengthened by some strands of hyphe within the cortex. 
Hab. On old trees, rarely on rocks in wooded tracts.—Divstr. 
General and common in S. and W. England, local in N. Wales and 
the Channel Islands, rare in S. Scotland and Ireland.—2. M. La 
Roche, Jersey ; Sark; Tresco Island, Scilly ; Pentire, The Lizard and 
near Penzance, Cornwall; Plymouth and Streat, Devon; New Forest, 
Hants; near Ryde, I. of Wight; Henfield and near Lewes, Sussex ; 
near Maidstone, Kent; Waltham Abbey, Essex; Stowe Park, Bucks ; 
Twycross, Leicestershire; Haughmond Hill, Shropshire ; Ingleby, 
Cleveland, Yorkshire; Teesdale, Durham; near Hexham, North- 
umberland; near Skelton, Cumberland; New Galloway, Kirkeud- 
brightshire ; Salisbury Crags, Edinburgh. 
