406 CYCLOCARPINE [GOMPHILLUS 
GOMPHILLUS Nyl. in Bot. Not. 1853, p. 165 & in Mém. 
Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherb. iii. p. 186 (1855). (Pl. 65.) 
Thallus effuse, of thick-walled agglutinate hyphe and sparsely 
scattered gonidia, forming a thin gelatinized continuous crust. 
Apothecia one or several borne at the tip of a short stalk or 
podetium rising from the horizontal thallus, dark-coloured, of a 
horn-like consistency ; paraphyses slender, simple ; spores 8 in 
the ascus, filiform, pluriseptate ; spermogones with simple short 
sterigmata, and minute acrogenous spermatia. 
A monotypic genus nearly allied to Beomyces ; recorded also from 
France and Italy. 
1. G. calycioides Nyl. in Act. Soc. Linn. Bord. sér. 3, i. 
p. 392 (1857).—Thallus effuse, thin or obsolete, greyish or 
greyish-green with a varnished appearance. Apothecia with 
somewhat slender short furrowed stalks, subglobose, dark or 
blackish ; hypothecium colourless; paraphyses slender, con- 
glutinate, the epithecium inspersed with brown colouring sub- 
stance ; asci cylindrical; spores 8 in the ascus, filiform up to 
100-septate, 160-200 » or more long, about 2 » thick.—Carroll 
in Journ. Bot. iii. p. 287 (1865); Cromb, Lich. Brit. p. 15 & 
Monogr. i. p. 108 (incl. £. microcephalus) ; Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 52 
(incl. £. microcephalus Nyl. Syn. i. p. 175 (1860) ); ed. 3, p. 50. 
Beomyces calycioides Del. ex Dub. Bot. Gall. p. 636 (1830). 
B. microcephalus Tayl. in Mackay Fl. Hib. ii. p. 78 (1836). 
Exsice. Cromb. n. 115. 
The form or variety microcephalus differs only in the specimens 
bearing slightly smaller apothecia. 
Hab. Incrusting decaying mosses on the ground, trees or boulders. 
—Distr. Rare in N. Wales, W. Scotland and in 8.W. Ireland.—B. M. 
Barmouth, Merioneth; Barcaldine, Argyll; Dinish, Tore Mt. ; Muck- 
ross, Cromaglown and Dunkerron, Kerry; Letter Hill, Connemara, 
Galway. 
PILOPHORUS Th. Fr. Ster. Pil. Comm. p. 40 (1857). 
Stereocaulon, sect. Pilophoron Tuckerm. Syn. Lich. New Engl. 
p. 46 (1848). (PI. 66.) 
Primary thallus crustaceous, granular or minutely squamulose, 
non-corticate. Cephalodia present. Podetia developed from the 
upward growth of the granules (not endogenous), rigid, cylindrical, 
simple or sparingly branched, beset with granules, non-corticate, 
tubular or solid with a central strand of compact parallel hyphe. 
Apothecia terminal on the podetia, single or in groups, subglobose, 
immarginate; hypothecium thick, dark-brown; paraphyses 
thickish, dark at the apices; asci clavate, thickened at the 
apices ; spores elongate-ellipsoid, simple. Spermogones terminal, 
globose, with acrogenous rod-like straight or curved spermatia. 
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