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210 CYCLOCARPINEX [PLACODIUM 
Hastings, Sussex; North Hill, Malvern, Worcestershire; Black 
Mount, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire; Craig-y-Rhiw, Oswestry and 
Llanymynech Hill, Shropshire; Snowdon and Beddgelert, Carnarvon- 
shire; Roseberry, Cleveland, Yorkshire; Brigsteer, Westmoreland ; 
Alston and Egremont, Cumberland; Appin and Glen Orchy, Argyll; 
Killin, Ben Lawers, Kinnoul Hill and Blair Athole, Perthshire ; 
Lundie Craigs, Forfarshire; Castleton of Braemar and Morrone, 
Aberdeenshire ; Kylemore Lake, Connemara, Galway. 
Var. inalpinum Anzi Catal. Lich. Sondr. p. 42 (1860),.— 
Thallus thin, pale-yellow or whitish. Apothecia reddish, 
generally convex, otherwise as in the species.—Lecanora inalpina 
Ach. Lich. Univ. p. 388 (1810). ZL. aurantiaca var. inalpina 
Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 46 (1870); Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 218 pro 
parte; ed. 3, p. 207 pro parte; var. rubescens Leight. ll. c. ; 
subsp. erythrella var. inalpina Cromb. in Grevillea xviii. p. 45 
(1889) & Monogr. i. p. 374 (incl. f. rubescens), Lecidea aurantiaca 
var. rubescens Ach. Meth. Lich. p. 69 (1803).  Callopisma 
aurantiacum var. inalpinum Mudd Man. p. 137 (1861). 
Heasicc. Johns. n. 101. 
Distinguished by the thinner thallus and the deeply coloured 
apothecia. 
Hab. On schistose rocks in upland districts.—Distr. Rare in N.W. 
England and the 8S. Grampians, Scotland.—,. M. Harris Moor, 
Whitehaven, Cumberland; Glen Lochay and Ben Lawers, Scotland. 
Subsp. irrubescens A. L. Sm.—Thallus effuse, thin, scattered, 
tawny-yellow. Apothecia minute, becoming convex and immar- 
ginate, concolorous with the thallus—Lecidea erythrella var. 
rubescens Scher. Lich. Helv. Spicil. p. 185 (1833) (non Ach.),. 
L. picta Tayl. in Mackay Fl. Hib. 1. p. 130 (1836)? Lecanora 
auruntiaca subsp. irrubescens Nyl. in Flora Ivii. p. 318 (1874); 
Cromb. in Grevillea xix. p. 60 & Monogr. i. p. 375. 
The only British specimen (in Hb. Salwey) is similar to Anzi’s 
specimen n. 135 in Lich. min. rar. Ital. on which Nylander based this 
subspecies. The thallus consists of minute scattered red scales. The 
specimen was wrongly named Lecidea picta Tayl. by Salwey (ef. 
Placodiwm pyraceum f. pictum). 
Hab. On schistose rocks. —/?. MW. Near Barmouth, Merioneth. 
18. Pl. crenulatellum A. L. Sm.—Thallus effuse, thin 
unequal, cracked, at times almost obsolete, citrine-yellow 
(K + purple). Apothecia moderate in size, plane, with a thick 
proper margin, and finely crenulate thalline margin, concolorous 
with the thallus (IK + purple); spores ellipsoid, 15-20 » long, 
5-9 p thick.—Lecanora crenulatella Nyl. in Flora Ixix. p. 461 
(1886) ; Cromb. in Grevillea xviii. p. 45 (1889) & Monogr. i. 
p. 375. 
Exsice. Johns, n. 565. 
