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176 CYCLOCARPINE [RAMALINA. 
Hab. On rocks and old walls in maritime and upland districts.— 
Distr. General and common where it occurs on rocky shores or 
mountainous tracts of the British Isles—B. M. Alderney; La 
Coupe, Jersey; Annet Island, Scilly; Land’s End, The Lizard and 
near Penzance, Cornwall; near Plymouth, Ivy Bridge and Dartmoor, 
Devonshire ; Malvern Hills, Worcestershire ; Long Mynd, Shropshire ; 
near Dolgelly and Harlech Castle, Merioneth ; Moel-y-golfa, Mont- 
gomeryshire ; Beddgelert and Snowdon, Carnarvonshire ; Langbraugh, 
Cleveland, Yorkshire ; near Hexham, Northumberland ; near Staveley, 
Westmoreland ; Penruddock and St. Bees, Cumberland; Airds, Appin, 
Argyll; Killin, Perthshire; Portlethen and Crathes, Kincardineshire ; 
Banchory-Devenick and Morrone, Braemar, Aberdeenshire; Apple- 
cross, Rossshire. 
12. R. polymorpha Ach. Lich. Univ. p. 600 (1810) pro parte. 
—Thallus rigid, compressed, irregularly lacunose and longitudinally 
nerved, rather short (5 cm. or less), pale-greenish, the margins 
and surface of the lacinize dotted with granular ellipsoid soralia 
(K—). Apothecia very rare, marginal or subterminal, concave, 
small, wrinkled or smoothish below ; spores oblong, straight or 
almost straight, 11-16 pw long, 4-5 » thick.—Cromb. Lich. Brit. 
p. 25 pro parte ; Leight. Lich. FI. ed. 2, p. 474 pro parte ; ed. 3, 
p- 87 (incl. f. ligulata). Lichen polymorphus Ach. in Vet. Acad. 
Handl. xviii. p. 270 (1797) pro parte. 
Distinguished from allied rock forms by the soralia. British 
specimens are sterile. Strands of strengthening hyphe lie within the 
outer cortex. 
Hab. On exposed alpine or maritime rocks.—B. M. Portlethen, 
Kincardineshire (the only British locality). 
Var. emplecta Ach. Lich. Univ. p. 601 (1810).—Lacinie 
more slender, very much branched and tapering.—Cromb. in 
Grevillea xv. p. 47 (1886); f. emplecta Leight. Lich. Fl. ed. 2, 
p. 475 pro parte; ed. 3, p. 87 pro parte. Parmelia polymorpha 
var. emplecta Ach. Meth. Lich. p. 267 (1803). 
Hab. On rocks and boulders in mountainous regions.—Distr. 
Local and scarce in the N. Grampians, Scotland.—Bb. M. Near Loch ~ 
Callater, Braemar, Aberdeenshire. 
13. R. capitata Nyl.in Bull. Soc. Linn. sér. 2, vi. p. 258 (1872), 
—Thallus short, glaucous or pale-green, the laciniz compressed, 
much branched, especially near the tips, wrinkled longitudinally 
and lacunose; soralia globose, singly or more on the obtuse 
apices. Apothecia very rare, terminal or subterminal, the 
receptacle becoming wrinkled on the under side ; spores oblong, 
straight or slightly curved.—R. polymorpha var. capitata Ach. 
Lich. Univ. p. 601 (1810) (incl. var. strepsilis) ; subsp. capitata 
Nyl. ex Cromb. in Grevillea vii. p. 141 (1879); Cromb. 
Monogr. i. p. 193. R. polymorpha Hook. in Sm. Engl. Fl. v. 
p. 224 (1833) (non Ach.). Parmelia polymorpha var. strepsilis 
Ach. Meth. Lich. p. 266 (1803), 
