LECANORA} LECANORACE 31] 
p. 54; var. upsaliensis Hook. in Sm. Engl. Fl. v. p. 191 (1833); 
f. frigida Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 188 (1871); ed. 3, p. 175; 
f. microcarpa Th. Fr. Lich. Scand. p. 234 (1871); Cromb. in 
Grevillea xviii. p. 70 (1890) ; Hook, FI. Scot. ii. p. 49 (as var. y.). 
Lichen frigidus Swartz Meth. Muse. p. 36, t. 2, fig. 4 (1781) ; 
With. Arr. ed. 3, iv. p. 22; Engl. Bot. t. 1879. L. wpsaliensis 
Dicks. Pl. Crypt. fasc. i. p. 12, t. 2, fig. 7 (1785) (non Linn.) ; 
Engl. Bot. t. 1634. Rinodina frigida 8S. F. Gray Nat. Arr. i. 
p- 555 (1821). 
Exsicc. Cromb. n. 70; Dicks. Dried Pl. n. 49. 
An alpine variety with thinner granular or papillate thallus. A 
state with minute apothecia occasionally occurs (f. microcarpa Th. 
Fr. Lich. Scand. p. 284 (1871) ; Cromb. Monogr. i. p. 458). 
Hab. On mosses on the ground of moorlands or mountains.— 
Distr. Local in E. England and N. Wales and Central Scotland ; 
plentiful among the Grampians, not recorded from Ireland.—B. M. 
Bury St. Edmund’s, Suffolk; Cwm Bychan, Merioneth; Ayton Moor, 
Cleveland, Yorkshire; Teesdale, Durham; Pentland Hills, near Edin- 
burgh ; Ben Cruachan, Argyll; Ben Lawers, Ben Vrackie and Blair 
Athole, Perthshire; Katelaw and Clova Mts., Forfarshire; Morrone, 
Ben Macdhui, Glen Dee and Invercauld Mts., Braemar, Aberdeen: 
shire; Ben Nevis, Invernessshire. 
Subsp. subtartarea Nyl. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Norm. sér. 2, vi. 
p. 276 (1872).—Thallus similar to the species but with sorediate 
pustules or becoming wholly leprose. Apothecia rare, the margin 
sometimes leprose.—Cromb. in Journ. Bot. xx. p. 274 (1882) & 
Monogr. i. p. 460. J. tartarea var. arborea Scher. Enum. p. 80 
(1850)? Mudd Man. p. 156; subsp. pallescens f. leprosa Nyl. in 
Not. Sallsk. Faun. & Fl. Fenn. Foérh. v. p. 135 (1866) ; f. leprosa 
Leight. Lich. Fl. ed. 3, p. 175. Lichenoides tartarewm farinaceum, 
seutellarum umbone fusco Dill. Hist. Muse. p. 132, t. 18, fig. 12 
(1741). Patellaria tartarea var. arborea DC, FI. France. ii. p. 364 
(1805) ? 
Distinguished chiefly by the leprose thallus, a character not 
alluded to either by De Candolle or by Scherer. 
Hab. On the trunks of old trees and occasionally on rocks in 
upland and subalpine regions.— Distr. Probably common, though not 
often recorded.—B. M. Roughton, Cornwall; Becky Falls, Devon; 
Bridge Rocks, Sussex; Lynn Gwernon, Merioneth ; Rosedale, York- 
shire; New Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire; Roslin, near Edinburgh ; 
Barcaldine, Argyll; Ben Vrackie and Craig Calliach, Perthshire ; 
Morrone, Braemar, Aberdeenshire; Ronayne’s Island, Killarney, 
Kerry ; Clonmel, Tipperary; Leenane, Connemara, Galway. 
62. L. gemimpara Th. Fr. Lich. Scand. p. 236 (1871).— 
Thallus effuse, formed of scattered warts or papillae, which are 
roundish or somewhat angular, becoming sorediate, greyish-white 
(IX + yellowish-red ; soredia CaCl + reddish). Apothecia on the 
apices of the papille up to 3 mm. across, the disc concave then 
