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the ardellos are somewhat innate, an it were rubbed down, it is 

 A. astroidea var. simulans Leight. (Lich. Fl. ed. 3, p. 420} . 



Hah. On smooth bark of trees. — Disir. General and connnon 

 throuf^liout the British Isles. — B. M. Shanklin, I. of AM^dit ; near 

 Lyndhurst, New Forest, Hants ; Ullacombc, near Bovey Tracey, 

 Devon ; St. Leonard's Forest, Sussex ; Ikaydon Forest, AVilts ; Hoe 

 Street, Waltliamstow, Hockley Woods and Ulting, Essex ; near 

 Worcester and Malvern, Worcestershire ; Harboro' Magna, Warwick- 

 shire ; near ]5armouth, Merioneth ; near Shrewsbury, near Wellington 

 and near Acton Scott, Shropshire ; Trefriw, Carnarvonshire ; Airy- 

 holme Wood, Cleveland, Yorkshire ; Teesdale, Durham ; by the Falls 

 of the Clyde, Lanarkshire ; near Stirling ; Ben Lawers and Finlarig, 

 Killin, Perthshire ; Appin, Argyll ; Morrone, Braemar, Aberdeenshire ; 

 Askew Wood and Cromaglown, Killarney, Kerry ; between Bandon 

 and Innishannon, Cork; near Dublin; Maam Turk Mts. and Delphi, 

 Connemara, Gal way. 



Var. epipastoides A. L. Sm.^ — ^Thallus whitish. Apothecia 

 small, very slender, elongate, sparingly irregular ; spores rather 

 smaller than in the species. — A. astroidea var. epijpastoides Nyl. 

 Lich. Scand. p. 259 (1861) ; Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 103. 



The apothecia are usually minutely lirellseform, though sometimes 

 somewhat punctiform and similar to the following species. 



Hab. On smooth bark of trees. — Distr. Eare in the Channel 

 Islands, S. England and S. Ireland. — B. M. Noirmont, Jersey ; Ilsham 

 Walk, Torquay, Devon ; Eagle's Nest and Killarney, Kerry. 



19. A. punctiformis Ach. Lich. Univ. p. 141 (1810) pro parte 

 & Syn. p. 4 (1814). — Thallus thin, indeterminate, whitish or 

 copper-coloured. Apothecia dark-brown, plane or slightly convex, 

 scattered, subinnate, roundish or oblong, internally pale ; spores 

 colourless, linear-clavate, or obovate, obtuse, 3-4-septate, the cells 

 equal in size, 0,016-24 mm. long, 0005-8 mm. thick; hymenial 

 gelatine blue then dark, the asci wine-red, with iodine. — Leight. 

 in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, xiii. p. 438, t. 7, f. 31 (1854), 

 inch f. galactina Leight. /. c. (non Ach.) & Lich. Fl. p. 395 : ed. 3, 

 p. 419 ; Mudd Man. p. 247 pro parte ; Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 104. 

 A. €jpi].asta var. ^ microscojpica Leight. in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, 

 ser. 2, xiii. p. 436, t. 7, f. 3() (1854) pro parte. Opegrapha epipasta 

 Hook, in Sm. Engl. Fl. v. p. 144 pro parte (non Ach.) ; Engl. Bot. 

 t. 1828?; Tayl. in Mackay Fl. Hib. ii. p. 105. Hysterina 

 epipasta S. F. Gray Nat. Arr. i. p. 506 (1821)? 



Closely allied to A. radiata, differing chiefly in the less deter- 

 minate thallus and the smaller usually punctiform apothecia. 



Hab. On smooth bark of trees. — Distr. Somewhat rare in S» 

 England and W. Ireland. — B. M. New Forest, Hants ; near Kylemore 

 and Doughruagh Mt., Connemara, Gal way. 



Var. melantera Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 396 (1871).— Thallus 

 somewhat darker-coloured than in the species. Apothecia rather 

 elongate, slender, spores as in the species. — Leight. Lich. FL 



