404 CYCLOCARPINE® [BEOMYCES 
Forest and Thorndon Hall, Essex ; Ampthill, Bedfordshire ; Malvern, 
Worcestershire ; Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire ; Meriden, War- 
wickshire; Welshpool, Montgomeryshire; Barmouth and Dolgelly, 
Merioneth; Bangor, Carnarvonshire; Ayton, Cleveland, Yorkshire ; 
Grayrigg Forest and Asby, Westmoreland; Keswick, Cumberland ; 
Hexham, Northumberland ; Egglestone, Durham; New Galloway, 
Kirkeudbrightshire; Leadhills, Lanarkshire; Pentland Hills, near 
Edinburgh; Ashburn, Gourock, Renfrewshire; Sidlaw Hills, Forfar- 
shire ; Kilblane, Argyll; Craig Calliach, Ben Lawers and Blair Athole, 
Perthshire; Invermoriston, Invernessshire; Mangerton, Kerry ; Con- 
nemara, Galway; Mallaranny, Achill, Mayo. 
Var. subsquamulosus Nyl. in Flora lx. p. 463 (1877).— 
Thallus usually orbicular, determinate, minutely squamulose more 
especially at the circumference. Apothecia almost sessile, small, 
solitary or conglomerate, dark-brown.—Cromb. in Grevillea xv. 
p. 15 (1889) & Monogr. i. p. 110. B. lignorum 8. F. Gray Nat. 
Arr. i. p. 413 (1821) pro parte. B. rufus vars. sessilis and carneus 
Nyl. Syn. Lich. p. 177 (1860) ; Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 16. Var. 
carneus Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 53 ; ed. 3, p. 51 (incl. f. sessilis). 
Exsice. Larb. Cesar. n. 7; Cromb. n. 116. 
Not to be confused with B. carneus Floerke, a continental species, 
with a more squamulose thallus, and the reaction K + yellow. then 
saffron-red. 
Hab. On sandy and peaty soil, rarely on rotten wood in maritime 
and upland situations.—Dvistr. Rather rare in the Channel Islands, 
in §., 5.W. and E. England, and among the Grampians, Scotland.— 
B. M. Noirmont, Jersey; near Bodmin, Cornwall; Epping Forest, 
Essex; Menstrie Glen, near Stirling; Glen Lochay, Schiehallion, 
Blair Athole and Rannoch, Perthshire; Braemar, Aberdeenshire ; 
Killarney, Kerry. 
Var. Prostii Harm. Lich. Fr. iii. p. 217 (1907).—Thallus 
granulose-warted, the warts often pulverulent. Apothecia large, 
convex sessile, difform or 2—4-connate and forming a mass 
reaching 3 mm. in diameter.—Bzomyces Prostii Duf. MS. in 
Herb. fide Harm. Specimen not seen. 
Recorded by Wheldon and Travis in Journ. Linn. Soc. xlviii. 
p- 119 (1915), from Hey Slacks Clough, Boulsworth Hill, Lancashire, 
May 1913. 
2. B. roseus Pers. in Ust. Ann. Bot. vii. p. 19 (1794).— 
Thallus granular-crustaceous, effuse or determinate, whitish 
(K + yellow). Podetia rather short, terete, white. Apothecia 
nearly globose, rose or pale-flesh-coloured (K + orange) ; spores 
6 or 8 in the ascus, fusiform-oblong or fusiform, simple or some- 
times obsoletely l-septate, narrow, 11—26 p long, 2°5-3 p thick ; 
hymenial gelatine scarcely tinged, but the tips of the asci pale- 
bluish with iodine.—S. F. Gray Nat. Arr. i. p. 412; Hook. FI. 
Scot. ii. p. 65 & in Sm. Engl. FI. v. p. 137 ; Mudd Man. p. 63, 
t. i. fig. 12; Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 16 & Monogr. i. p. 111; 
