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paiaphyses ; there is no specinion of it at the British Museum. 

 Nyhinder {I. c.) gives Sagedia amea in An/i Lich. Min. rar. n. 895 as a 

 synonym, but that plant has been identified by him in MS. as 

 Verruca/ria grisca. 



Hah. On the smooth bark of trees. — IHstr. Common throughout 

 England, rare in Scotland and S.W. Ireland. — B. M. Torquay, Devon ; 

 Pease Cottage Gate, Nevv^ Timber Wood, Hayward's Heath and St. 

 Leonard's Forest, Sussex ; Writtle, Essex ; Cradley, Herefordshire ; 

 Savernake, Wilts; Chedworth, Gloucestershire; near Malvern, Wor- 

 cestershire ; Nesscliff, Shropshire ; Ay ton, Ingleby and Hob Hole, 

 Cleveland, Yorkshire ; Bettws-y-Coed and Trefriw, Carnarvonshire ; 

 Morrone, Braemar, Aberdeenshire ; near Macroom and Muckross, 

 Cork ; Croghan and Kenmare, Kerry. 



7. A. sti^matella A. L. Sm. (uon Massal.). — Thallus greyish 

 or brownish, effuse, thin, smooth and shining. Perithecia black, 

 small, varying in size, often a mere point, semi-immersed and 

 hemispherical or more emergent and somewhat convex ; perithecial 

 wall dimidiate ; paraphyses usually indistinct ; asci, elongate- 

 elliptical ; spores colourless, elongate-oblong, usually tapering at 

 one or both ends, often becoming brownish, large, 1 -septate, 

 0,027-40 mm. long, 0,007-010 mm. thick. — Lichen stigmatellus 

 Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 1891 (1808) (non Ach.). Lejo^jhlea stigmatella 

 S. F. Gray Nat. Arr. i. p. 496 (1823). Verruearia cinerea Hook, 

 in Sm. Engl. Fl. p. 149 (1833) (non Pers. in Ust. Ann. vii. 

 p. 28, t. 3, fig. 6a (1794) ) ; Tayl. in Mackay Fl. Hib. ii. p. 88 ; 

 Leight. Angioc. Lich. p. 39, t. 17, fig. 2 & Lich. Fl. p. 433; 

 ed. 3, p. 464. F. antecellens Nyl. in Flora xlix. p. 86 (1866) ; 

 Carroll in Journ. Bot. v. p. 260 (1867); Oromb. Brit. Lich. 

 p. 119 ; Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 435 ; ed. 3, p. 465 & in Grevillea 

 1. p. 60, t. 4, fig. 2. V. epidermidis var. cinerea Mudd Man. 

 p. 304 (1861) ; Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 119. 



Exsicc. Leight. n. 343 ; Mudd n. 295 (both specimens 

 imperfectly developed) ; Carroll Lich. Hib. n. 32. 



Easily recognized by the large 1-septate spores, and usually by the 

 mixture of larger and smaller perithecia and spermogonia dotted over 

 the thallus. 



Hab. On the bark of trees, chiefly holly. — Distr. Not uncommon 

 in S. England. Eare in N. England and Wales, common in S. and 

 W. Ireland.— £. M. Withiel and St. Breock, Cornwall ; Ivy Bridge, 

 Devon ; Lyndhurst, New Forest, Hants ; Pease Pottage Gate, Tilgate 

 and St. Leonard's Forest, Sussex ; Shere, Surrej^ ; Leckhampton, 

 Gloucestershire ; Dolgelly, Merioneth ; Bettws-y-Coed, Carnarvon- 

 shire ; Ingleby, Newton and Kildale, Cleveland, Yorkshire; Glen- 

 bower, Glanmire, Crosshaven, Castle Bernard and Castlemartyr, 

 Cork ; Croghan, Tore Mt., Cromaglown, Loch Inchiquin, Dinish, 

 Killarney, Old Dromore and Glencar, Kerry ; Loughcooter, Galway. 



8. A. analeptoides A. L. Sm. — ^Thallus whitish-grey, thin, 

 effuse. Perithecia black, moderate in size, hemispherical, 



