Mr. Hardy on Lichens of the Eastern Borders. 409 



36. Urceolaria, Ach. 



1. U. SCRXJPOSA, L. N. With the apothecia very minute and immersed, in the 

 fissures of rocks at Bamborough Castle. B. In the usual form, on the edges of 

 slate rocks, and running off on moss, on the south side of Bowshiel dean ; also 

 on rocks in a dean opposite Edmonds dean. 



3. BK.YOPHILA, Ach. Not uufrequent on mosses among stones in the lower 

 part of Dowlaw dean ; also as a cinereous incrustation on the thallus of Cladonia 

 pyxidata, as noticed by Koerber, Syst. Lich. Germ. p. 169, the apothecia being 

 inserted as parasites, in the foliage of the Cladonia. See also Fries, Lichenog. 

 Eur. Ref. p. 192. 



37. G-yalecta, Ach. 



1. G. cupuLARTS, Ehrh. Moist shady rocks where water trickles over ; 

 scarce. N. Rocks at the head of the ravine that descends from Middleton rocks 

 at Langlee ; en calcareous tufa near the site of the Laidley Worm Trough, 

 Spindleston. B. On greywacke in the North-Cleugh, Penmanshiel Wood, and 

 in Dowlaw dean, where it also overruns moss. It is thus not limited to calcare- 

 ous districts. The state on moss is the G. fovcolaris, Ach., which Fries accounts 

 a variety of G. cnpularis. Dr. Lindsay examined my specimens microscopically, 

 and had there been any essential difference, he would have noted it. 



38. Diploicia, Massal. 



1. D. CANESCENS, Diclcs. On old walls, rocks, and occasionally trunks of 

 trees ; mostly near the sea-coast. N, Rocks and old tree-roots, Spindleston- 

 heugh ; rocks near Bamborough Castle, where it fructifies, and on walls near 

 the village ; on porphyry, Humbleton Mill. D. Small fragments of it near 

 Hudshead. B. Rocks below the walls of Berwick; on " Edgar's walls," Cold- 

 ingham Church ; greywacke rock called " Ailie M'Garnie," near Redheugh ; 

 walls of St. Helen's church, and at Greenheugh and Siccar. 



39. Toninia, Massal. 



1. T. AROMATiCA, Turner. On earth in fissures of rocks, &c. D. On mortar 

 of a bridge at Hudshead. N. Bamborough Castle, and Humbleton Mill. B. 

 Along all the sea-coast of the parish of Cockburnspath, as at Greenheugh, Ewe 

 lairs, Siccar point, &c. 



40. Lecotliecimn, Trevis. 



1. L. NIGRUM, Huds. Rare. B. On conglomerate and on a stone-wall at 

 Greenheugh, N. On porphyry and calcareous spar, Humbleton dean, spar- 

 ingly. Collema nigrurti, Hooker B, F. ii. p. 207. 



41. Biatorina, Massal. 



1. B. PiNETi, ScJirad. About the roots of trees near the ground, in shady 

 woods ; not uncommon, but being very minute, requiring to be well looked for. 

 N. On the scales of larch, and on the bark of alder on the Lill-burn. B. 

 About the base of various trees, Bowshiel Wood, Retreat woods, Penmanshiel 

 Wood, Brockholes dean. 



