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LEICESTERSHIRE LICHENS, 1886-1903. 
By A. R. Horwoop. 
Waen the Flora of Leicestershire was published in 1886, ‘the 
number of species and varieties of lichens found in the county 
‘amounted to one hundred and seventy-seven. Since then a large 
number of additions have been made by various workers; and 
it appears desirable to place these on recor 
Those responsible for the material which formed the basis of the 
list published in the Flora were the late Rev. Andrew Bloxam and 
the Rev. H. P. Reader, O.P. Father Reader continued to add 
many to the list until 1898, when he went to reside in another 
‘county. Itis owing to his kindness and pnegurae nent.) that I have 
been able to pursue my own recent re 
The number of species and variaetae es new to vice-county 55, 
found or recorded between 1886 and 1903, is one hundred and one, 
which raises the total to two hundred and seventy-eight species and 
varieties,—about a quarter of the total number found throughout 
the British Isles 
The order adopted in the list is that employed by the Rey. 
J. M. Crombie in his Monograph on British Lichens (1894), in so 
far as the genera are concerned; but as that work has not been 
completed, the arrangement of species from Lecidea to Verrucaria 
is that of Leighton’s ‘Lichen- -flora, third edition, 1879. 
The following abbreviations have been em mployed throughout the 
list :—B. M. = British Museum Herbarium (all the records under 
this head are taken from Mr. Crombie’s Monograph ; the Leicester- 
shire specimens therein mentioned being from the collection of the 
v. A. Bloxam); AR. = H. P. Reader a F, T. Mott, F.R. 
. J.= A. Bruce Jackson; £. Je. Jeays; M.-D. = Otto 
Murray-Dixon; W. = Miss M. E. Whitton; Herb. Lit. Soc. = the 
Herbatiam of the Leicester Literary and ‘Philosophical Society ; 
Herb. Mus.=the Herbarium of the Leicester Corporation Museum 
(a general not a local eollesstion). Where no other indication is 
given, I am myself responsible. The species to blow an asterisk 
is prefixed are those first found by myself in ‘the co 
Collemodium biatorinum Nyl. Charnwood Porat, .M. 
mee pe pire rae Gray. — Subspecies pulvinatum Nyl. Twy- 
emelloides Gray. No locality given, but un- 
doubly iit the sonstty, and in all probability Market Bosworth, 
Herb. Lit. Soe 
; Sphere anglica Nyl. edad B. M. 
Se brat melanopheum Ach, — Var. B ferrugineum Schaer. 
Gopsall tie «Mee 
Contry fur furacea Ach. Twycross, B. M. Twycross, Herb. 
it. 
pacha sientias ae Gopsall Park, B. M 
pharophorus co s Ach. Looality stv but un- 
doubtedly Teleestershire, “and probably Market Bosworth district, 
Herb. Lit. 
“Ster “otitis denudatum Fl. No locality given, but undoubtedly 
