CSNEA.] U8NEEI. 203 



(/. e.) to be common, — B. M. : Island of Guernsey. Near Lydd, Kent ; 

 New Forest, Ilauts; Lydfoid and near Totnes, Devonshire; IJocconoc 

 and near Penzance, C'urnwall ; I lay Coppice and Whittield, Ileret'ordsbire; 

 near Porthogd, l^recoUfliire ; Dynevor Castle, Cainiartliensiiire ; llafod, 

 Cardiganshire; Island of Anglesea; (iibside Woods, Diuhim; Anihlfside, 

 Westmoreland. New Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire ; Pentland Hills, 

 near Edinburgh ; near Inverary, Argyleshire ; Stronaclachau Woods, 

 Killin, Perthshire ; Diirris Woods, Kincardineshire ; Countesswelis Woods, 

 near Aberdeen, and JJallochbuie Forest, Braemar ; Lochaber, Inverness- 

 shire. 



2. U. hirta Hoffm. Dcutseh. Fl. ii. (17U5)p. 133.— Thallus some- 

 wliat small, nearly erect, caospitosc, crowdedly branched, densely 

 and minutely fibrillose, greenish- or yellowish-whito; branches often 

 covered with verrucoso-pulverulcnt soredia. Apothecia small, pale, 

 the margin with short radiating fibrils ; spores shortly ellipsoid, 

 (t,(»(K)-8 mm. long, 0,004-6 mm. thick. — Cromb. Linn. Soc. Journ. 

 Bot. xvii. p. 555, — Usnea hurhata /3. liiHa !JIudd, Man. p. 00; 

 Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 23 ; Leight. Lich. FI. p. 84, ed, 3, p. 76, 

 L'snea piicata y. hirta Gray, Nat. Art. i. p. 404; Hook. Fl. Scot, 

 ii. p. 70 ; Sm. Eng. Fl. v. p.' 226 ; Tayl. in Mack. Fl. Ilib. ii. p. 86. 

 LlcJien Jiirtus Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 1155 ; Huds. Fl. Angl. p. 462 ; 

 Lightf. Fl. Scot. ii. p. 895 ; With, Arr. ed. 3, iv. p. 46. Csnea vul- 

 (j((tts>ti)na tennlor et hrcvior, sine orhii-nlis Dill. Muse. 67, t. 13. f. 12. 

 — Brit. Exs. : Leight, n. 1 pro parte ; Mudd, n, 35. 



Distinguished from the preceding, which it resembles in habit, by 

 being much smaller (usually about 1-2 inches in height), more ciespitose, 

 branched and tibrillose. Occasionally it is very small and pulvinate,and 

 is sometimes only sparingly sorediiferous. The apothecia are very rare 

 iu Great Britain, and are found only on the smaller conditions. Minute 

 cephalodia, however, are not unfrequeut on the main branches. 



IZab. On old pales (oak and larch), and occasionally on the branches of 

 trees in wooded tracts. — Di<fr. General in maritime and upland districts, 

 sometimes abundant, especially in the Central Highlands of Scotland ; 

 apparently rare in Ireland and in the Channel Islands. — 13. M. : Island of 

 (iuernsey. Walthanistow, E^sex ; Lydd, Kent; near Lewes, Sussex; 

 near Ryde, Isle of Wight: Lyndhurst, New Forest, Hampshire ; Coryton, 

 S. Devon: near Penzance, Cornwall ; Cirencester, Gloucestershire ; Gop- 

 sall, Jjeicestershire ; Kowter Rocks, Derbyshire ; near Oswestry and 

 Hauglmiond Hill, Shro])shire ; Conway Falls, Carnarvonshire ; Bettws- 

 y-Coed, Denbighshire ; Island of Anglesea ; Ingleby, Cleveland, York- 

 shire ; near Ilexham, Northumberland ; Ashgill, Cumberland. New 

 Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire; near Moffat, Dumfriesshire; Pentland 

 Hills, near Edinburgh : Inverary and Appin, Argyleshire; Killin, Perth- 

 shire; Muchdls, Kincardineshire; Park, near Aberdeen: Mar Forest, 

 liraemar, Aberdeenshire ; Rothiemurchus Wood, Inverness-shire ; Lairtr, 

 Sutherlandshire. Near Belfast, co. Antrim. 



3, U. dasypoga Nyl, e.v Stiz. St. Gall. Nat. Ges. (1876) p, 202,— 

 Thallus elongate, pendulous, scabrous, sparingly branched, grcvish- 

 white or pale-greyish ; the branches long, divergent, simplish, with 

 short, patent, crowded fibrilhc. Aiothecia small or nearly mode- 



