LECANORA | LECANORACEE 291 
p- 190; Tayl. in Mackay Fl. Hib. ii. p. 137 pro parte; Mudd 
Man. p. 149 pro parte; Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 52 pro parte 
& Monogr. i. p. 430 (incl. f. pleorytis) ; Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 192 ; 
ed. 3, p. 176 pro parte. Lichen varius Ehrh. Exs. n. 68 (1785) 
nomen nudum; Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 1666 (1807). Patellaria varia 
Hoffm. Pl. Lich. i. p. 102 (1790); var. pleorytis Ach. Meth. 
p. 178 (1833). Rinodina varia S. F. Gray Nat. Arr. i. p. 452 
1821). 
Exsicc. Bohl. n. 107 ; Johns. nos. 134, 135 ; Larb. Lich. Hb. 
n. 215; Leight. n. 51. 
Characterized by the smooth rather hard granules, as distinguished 
from the leprose thallus of i. farinaria which is more of a shade 
lichen. The apothecia are numerous and may be much enlarged with 
very irregular indented flexuose margins (f. pleorytis), a character that 
appears in many of the apothecia. Spermatia thread-like, 12-22 » 
long, 0°75 pu thick. 
Hab. On old palings (rarely on trunks of trees, heather, etc.).— 
Distr. General and common throughout the British Islands.—B. M. 
Guernsey; Bovey Tracey, Devon; Lyndhurst, New Forest, Hants ; 
Shermanbury, Hastings and St. Leonard’s Forest, Sussex; Penshurst 
Park, Kent; Shiere, Surrey; Finchley, Middlesex; Walthamstow, 
Essex; Elstree, Hertfordshire; Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire; Yar- 
mouth, Norfolk; Hay Park, Herefordshire; Battenhall, near Worcester ; 
Harboro’ Magna, Warwickshire ; Twycross and Gopsall Park, Leices- 
tershire; near Shrewsbury, Shropshire; Barmouth, Merioneth; 
Ayton, Cleveland and Skipworth, Yorkshire; Wark-on-Tyne and 
near Hexham, Northumberland ; Ben Lawers and Killin, Perthshire ; 
Durris, Kincardineshire; Crathie and Glen Dee, Braemar, Aberdeen- 
shire ; Rothiemurchus, Invernessshire ; Carrigaline, Cork; Killarney, 
Kerry. 
37. L. farinaria Borr. Engl. Bot. Suppl. t. 2727 (1832).— 
Thallus effuse, thickish, pulverulent-leprose and generally cracked- 
areolate or subleprose, pale yellowish-green (K + yellow). 
Apothecia sparsely scattered, pale reddish, becoming brownish 
or very dark when old, generally rather sunk in the thallus and 
the margin pulverulent ; paraphyses somewhat coherent, sparingly 
septate, irregular and sometimes divided at the tips; the epithe- 
cium a mass of granules, brown in thick section ; spores ellipsoid, 
10-16 p long, 4—5 w thick ; hymenial gelatine blue with iodine.— 
Cromb. in Grevillea vii. p. 142 (1879). ZL. eaxpallens var. 
conizea Ach. Lich. Univ. p. 374 (1810). LZ. varia var. coniziea 
Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 52 (1870); Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 193. 
L. conizea Nyl. in Flora lv. p. 249 (1872); Cromb. in Trans. 
Essex Field Club iv. p. 64 (1885) & Monogr. i. p. 431. LD. sar- 
copis subsp. homopis Cromb. in Journ. Bot. xi. p. 133 (1873) (non 
Nyl.) ; Leight. Lich. Fl. ed. 3, p. 174. L. lutescens Leight. tom. 
cit. p. 184 (1879) pro parte. Rinodina conizea 8S. F. Gray Nat. 
Arr, i. p. 454 (1821). 
_ Easicc. Cromb. n. 163 ; Johns. n. 79 ; Leight. n. 378. 
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