1 70 LECANO-LECIDEEI | BUELLIA 



seen by Tjeij^liton, and those in the Britisli Museum, including Larb. 

 Lich. lib. n. 3i, do not agree witli the description of Tuclcernian's 

 species; they are mostly saxicolous forms of Ji. inyriocarpa, but one 

 of the specimens is Biatorina le jiiicii Jan's, the form of the paraphyses 

 in both these species being very similar. 



Hah. On trees, palings and rocks. — Distr. Frequent throughout 

 the ]^ritish Isles. — B. M. Lignicolous : Jersey ; Lustleigh, Devon ; 

 Lyndhurst and near Menstrie, New Forest, Hants ; St. Leonards, 

 Chiltington and Shermanbury, Sussex ; Penshurst, Kent ; lUchmond 

 Park, Surrey; Hannncrsmith and Hampstead Heath, Middlesex; 

 Windsor Great Park, ]5erks ; near Cirencester, Gloucestershire ; 

 Lewknor and Wheatfield, Oxfordshire ; Highbeach, Epping Forest, 

 Walthamstow, Hockley Woods, Ulting, Stansted, Mount Fitchet, 

 Broomfield and Hatford Peverel, Essex ; Babraham and Gamlingay 

 (f. scrjjj'op/i'i/a), Cambridgeshire ; near Tuddenham, Suffolk; Thetford 

 Warren and near King's Lynn, Norfolk ; near Pixham Ferry, Wor- 

 cestershire ; Polesworth and Leamington, Warwickshire ; near Shrews- 

 bury, Battlefield, Church Stretton, Haughmond Hill and Newport, 

 Shropshire ; Elmhurst, Staffordshire ; Twycross, Leicestershire ; Bar- 

 mouth and Dolgelly, Merioneth; Bettws-y-Coed, Carnarvonshire; 

 near Stokesley, Cleveland, Yorkshire ; Teesdale, Durham ; Orton, 

 Westmoreland ; Keswick and Ennerdale, Cumberland ; Killin and 

 Aberfeldy, Perthshire ; Loch Lomond, Dumbartonshire ; Appin, 

 Arg3dl ; Mar Forest, Braemar and Countesswells, near Aberdeen ; 

 Applecross, Eossshire ; Eiverstown, Glanmire and Blarney, Cork ; 

 Tore Mt., Killarney; Ballynagarde, Limerick; Killaloe and Kilkee, 

 Clare ; near Belfast, Antrim. Saxicolous : Fliquet Bay and La Moye, 

 Jersey ; Lewes, Sussex ; Shiere, Surrey ; Goodwick Bay, Pembroke- 

 shire ; Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire; Hale End, Malvern, 

 Worcestershire ; Lyth Hill, Shropshire ; ClifTrigg, Cleveland, York- 

 shire ; Portlethen, Kincardineshire ; Countesswells Woods near Aber- 

 deen (on Bceo7nyccs rufus) ; Inniscarra and Kilcully, Cork ; Kilkee, 

 Clare ; Mweelen, Kylemore, near Salrock and near Lough Feagh, 

 Connemara, Galway. 



Yar. cMoropolia Th. Fr. Lich. Scand. p. 595 (1874).— 

 Tliallus thicker than in the species, greenish-grey, unequal, 

 granular.- — Lecidea chloropoUa Fr. Summa p. 115 (1846) nomen. 

 L. myriocarpa f. chloropoUa Leight. Lich. Fl. ed. 3, p. 319 (1879). 

 Liclien jpinicola Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 1851 fig. 2 (1808). 



Exsicc. Larb. Lich. Hb. n. 31. 



Scarcely to be distinguished from some forms of the species. The 

 apothecia are somewhat larger, and are comparable lo Leighton's 

 f. sapropliila. 



Hah. On decorticated trunks and old palings. — Distr. Somewhat 

 rare in the Channel Islands, S., Central and N. England. — B. M. 

 Beaufort, Jersey ; near Bovey Tracej^ Devon ; Lyndhurst, New 

 Forest ; Finchley, Middlesex ; Walthamstow, Essex ; near Cambridge. 



11. B. Schsereri De Not. in Giorn. Bot. Ital ii. p. 199 (1846). 

 — Thallus effuse, thin, whitish, minutely granular or pulverulent, 

 sometimes evanescent (K — , CaCl — ). Apothecia minute, black, 

 plane or subconvex, the margin thin, disappearing ; hypothecium 

 brownish or dark-l^rown ; paraphyses concrete dark-brown at th^ 



