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400 CYCLOCARPINEE: | GYROPHORA 
Gyrophora vellea found on high mountains has not been recorded 
for Britain; Hudson’s specimen from Settle, Yorkshire, must have 
been wrongly determined. Lichen velleus had been reported as 
English by Linnzus, who mistook Dillenius’ specimen from New ~ 
Jersey as from a British locality (see Tuckerm. N. Amer. Lich. p. 88). 
Hab. Saxicolous in upland and subalpine regions.—Distr. Rather 
rare in the upland districts of England and Ireland, more plentiful 
among the Grampians, Scotland.—B. M. Helminton, Cornwall; 
Dartmoor, Devon; Cader Idris, Cwm Bychan and near Barmouth, 
Merioneth ; Ayton Moor, Cleveland, Yorkshire; Teesdale, Durham ; 
The Cheviots, Northumberland ; Ennerdale, Cumberland; New Gallo- 
way, Kirkeudbrightshire ; Dalmahoy Hill near Edinburgh ; Aberfeldy, 
Pass of Leny, Amulree and Glenshee, Perthshire; Cortachy and 
Clora, Forfarshire ; Lochnagar, Loch Phadrig, Glen Callater, Glen 
Dee and Craig Coinnoch, Braemar, Aberdeenshire; near Rothie- 
murchus, Ben Nevis and Ben Ferrog, Invernessshire; Applecross, 
tossshire. 
Form luxurians Th. Fr. Lich. Scand. p. 159 (1871).—Thallus 
much divided, the margins lobulate, laciniate and crisp.—Cromb. 
Monogr. i. p. 334. G. pellita var. luxurians Ach. Lich. Univ. 
p. 228 (1810). Uwmbilicaria polyrrhiza var. luxurians Cromb. 
Lich. Brit. p. 41 (1870) ; Leight. Lich. Fl. ed. 3, p. 147. 
The crowded lobules tend to form cushion-like masses ; occasionally 
there are only few rhizine. Apothecia have not been seen on this 
form. 
Hab. Saxicolous in upland or mountainous regions. — Distr. 
Rare in 8.W. England and among the Grampians, Scotland—B. M. 
Walkhampton and Sharpitor, Devon; near Killin, Ben Lawers and 
near Tummel Bridge, Perthshire; Glen Callater, Braemar, Aberdeen- 
shire; Glen Nevis, Invernessshire. 
12. G. cirrosa Wain. in Medd. Soc. Faun. & Fl. Fenn. xiy. 
p. 23 (1888).—Thallus monophyllous, rather thick and coriaceous, 
smooth on the upper surface, and somewhat pruinose, irregularly 
but not deeply lobate, cinereous- or brownish-grey ; beneath dark 
in colour, or grey in parts, granulate and rhizinose, the rhizine 
grey or dark-brown, branched or simple, with simple tips 
(K—, CaCl +"), Apothecia sessile, up to 1°5 mm. in diam., 
becoming convex, generally with a papilla in the centre, and 
gyrose-plicate or with irregular lines or asperities ; spores rather 
large, about 17—27 p» long, 13-17 p» thick.—G. spodochroa Ach. 
Meth. Lich. p. 108; Wilson & Wheldon in Journ. Bot. xlvii. 
pp. 431, 447 (1909); A. L. Sm. Part 2, p. 332. Umbilicaria 
cirrosa Hoffm. Pl. Lich. p. 9, t. 2, figs. 3-4 (1790). Lichen 
spodochrous Ehrh, exs. n. 316 (1798) nomen nudum ; Ach, Lich. 
Suec. Prodr. p. 149 (1798). 
Not unlike G. vellea, an alpine or northern lichen, but of rather 
thinner texture and with larger spores which are often brownish. 
The species was found by Martindale at Langdale, and was reported 
in the ‘‘ Westmoreland Note Book and Natural History Record ”’ in 
