420 Mr. Hardy on Lichens of the Eastern Borders. 



on the Lill-burn. B. Common. I have not sought for the sub-varieties ; 

 their distinctions are very trifling. 



6. A. viNOSA, Leiglit. On old bark on the roots of old trees, and also on 

 decaying wood, not common. N. On wood of decaying alder below Langleyford 

 Hope. B. At the roots of oak in Reedy burn ; and on decaying timber in Red 

 Clues Cleugh. 



7. A. LUiiiDA, Ach. B. On branches of hazel, Dowlaw dean, and Reedy 

 burn ; and occasionally on oaks, Penmanshiel Wood, and Bowshiel dean ; rare. 



8. A. SPADiCEA, Leiglit. In shady woods at the base of the trunks of trees, 

 almost close to the ground, rather frequent. On hazel above Langleyford and 

 at Routin Linn ; on larch and alder on the Lill-burn. B. On hazel and holly, 

 Penmanshiel Wood and Pease dean ; on scales of Scotch pine. Retreat ; on 

 hazel, Dowlaw dean. 



9. A. Parasemoides, Nyl. Parasitic on the apothecia and sometimes on 

 the thallus of Lecanora glaucoma, not unfrequent. N. On Easington rocks, 

 crags at Spindleston ; and on Care-burn, Homilheugh or Homildon hill, &c. 

 B. Walls at Penmanshiel, Bowshiel dean, Oldcambus dean, head of Dowlaw 

 dean, below the Retreat. 



10. A. PUNCTELLA, Nyl. N. Parasitic on the thallus oi Lecanora glaucoma, 

 in Humbleton dean, on rocks on the Care-burn, at the Kettle-well, on Homil- 

 heugh, above Langleyford Hope, and at Spindleston-heugh. B. On Lecanora 

 glaucoma and Isidlum corallinum, Bowshiel dean, frequent. From Mr. Mudd's 

 Manual of British Lichens, p. 252, this appears to have been hitherto only 

 found in Ireland on the thallus of Diplofomma alhoatrum. Mr. M. examined 

 my specimens, so that there is no doubt about the species. 



62. Calicium, Persoon, 



1. C. CURTUM, T. and B. On decayed old stumps and trunks of trees. N. 

 Rotten alders on the Lill-burn ; on oak, in a dean on the College, below Heath- 

 pool Linn. B. On decayed oak-stumps, Penmanshiel Wood, Reedy-burn, and 

 at the Retreat, abundant in damp deans. 



2. C. QUERCiNUM, Pers. B. On decayed wood in the hollow of an old sallow, 

 Bowshiel dean. 



3. C. HTPERELLUM, Ach. On bark on the trunks and about the roots of old 

 trees. N. On oaks above Coldgate Mill, and on the College, below Heathpool 

 Linn ; on alders in Langleyford vale, below Langlee, and near Langleyford 

 Hope ; and in different places on the Lill-burn. B. On oak in the Retreat 

 wood, and the sides of the Whitadder at the base of Cockburnlaw ; Langton 

 wood ; above the Pease bridge ; Red Clues Cleugh ; Hazeldean near Old- 

 cambus ; producing apothecia in all these places. The bright yellow portion of 

 the crust is conspicuous on old oaks and sycamores, and constitutes the Lrpra- 

 r'lajlava, Ber. Flor. ii. p. 103. C. sphcErocejjliahivi, found by the Rev. Thomas 

 Brown, "on the bark of trees about Stitchel House," Ber. Club's Proc. i. p. 32, 

 from a specimen in Dr. Johnston's Herbarium, is C. hyperelliim. 



4. C. TRACHELiNUM, Acli. C. spharoccphalumy Hook. B. F. ii. 141. On de- 

 cayed timber of an old oak, above Coldgate Mill, and on rotten wood of alder at 

 Langleyford Hope; rare. B. On an alder stump at the base of Cockburnlaw j 

 and on decayed oak timber, Penmanshiel Wood ; not common. 



