GRAPHINA] GRAPHIDACEiE 257 



Forest, and I. of Wight, Hants ; Tilgate, Ardingly and Balcombe, 

 Sussex ; Hadleigh and Hockley Woods, Messing, Stansted Mountfitchet 

 and Epping Forest, Essex ; Gloddaeth, near Conway and Gw^'dir 

 Woods, Bettws-y-Coed, Carnarvonshire ; Holly Park, near Stokesay, 

 Shropshire ; Newton Wood and Ay ton, Cleveland, Yorkshire ; 

 Crosshaven, Cork ; Castleconnel, Limerick ; Killaloe, Clare ; 

 Killarney, Kerry ; near Clifden, Connemara, Gal way. 



2. Gr. inustula A. L. Sm. — Thallus thin, white, slightly 

 war ted and wrinkled, subdeterminate (K + yellow). Apothecia 

 immersed, thinly scattered, short, obtuse, simple or branched 

 disc broad, plane, whitish-pruinose, proper margins thin, elevated 

 hypothecium colourless, the apothecial walls lateral only 

 paraphyses slender, subdiscrete ; epithecium blackish-brown 

 spores muriform, colourless, 0,035-48 mm. long, 0,012-20 mm 

 thick. — Gra/pMs inustula Nyl. in Flora Ix. p. 566 (1877) ; Cromb 

 in Grevillea vi. p. 114; Leight. Lich. Fl. ed. 3, p. 435. 



Exsicc. Larb. Lich. Hb. without a number. 



Differs from the preceding species in the flat short pruinose 

 apothecia which somewhat resemble those of PhceograpJiis inusta. 



Hah. On hoUy.—jB. M. Westport, Mayo (the only locality). 



3. Gr. Ruiziana Muell.-Arg. in Flora Ixiii. p. 20 (1880).— 

 Thallus greyish-cream-coloured, thin, smooth, determinate or 

 effuse, sometimes limited by a black line. Apothecia black, 

 prominent, sessile or slightly immersed at the base, linear-oblong, 

 rather short, straight or subflexuose ; usually simple ; disc narrow, 

 sometimes slightly dilated ; proper margins tumid, connivent ; 

 hypothecium blackish-brown, the apothecial wall continuous 

 under the base ; paraphyses slender, conglutinate ; epithecium 

 blackish-brown ; spores oblong-ovoid, colourless, 0,030-45 mm. 

 long, 0,010-18 mm. thick. — Opegrapha Buiziana Fee Ess. Crypt, 

 p. 27 (1824). 0. anomala Leight. in Ann. Mag. Hist. ser. 2, 

 xix. p. 129, t. 8, figs. 1-6 (1857). Stenographa anomala Mudd 

 Man. p. 236 (1861). Graphis Buiziana Nyl. in Act. Soc. Sci. 

 Fenn. vii. p. 464 (1863) ; Carroll in Journ. Bot. iii. p. 201 

 (1865); Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 96; Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 370; 

 ed. 3, p. 433. 



Exsicc. Cromb. n. 193. 



Hah. On bark. — Distr. Not uncommon in S., W., and Central 

 England, Wales, and S. and W. Ireland. — B. M. St. Breock, Wadebridge, 

 and near Bodmin, Cornwall ; Ivybridge and Ilsham, Torquay, Devon; 

 Lymington, Hants ; Malvern, Worcestershire ; Dolgelly, Merioneth, 

 Glenbower, Glengariff, and Castlemartyr, Cork ; Tore Mt., Croghan, 

 and Cromaglown, Killarney. 



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