SPHEROPHORUS. | SPHAROPHOREL, 105 
meter.—Hook. Fl. Scot. ii. p. 67; Gray, Nat. Arr. i. p.487; Leight. 
Br. Angi. Lich. 7, t. i. £1; Lich. Fl. p. 47, ed. 3, p. 48; Mudd, 
Man. p. 264, t. v. f. 109; Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 15.—Spherophoron 
corallotdes a. lawum Sm, Eng. Fl. v. p. 232. Lichen globiferus Lighté. 
Fl. Scot. ii. p. 887; Eng. Bot. t. 115; With. Arr. ed. 3, iv. p. 40. 
Lichen globosus Huds. Fl. Angl.i. p. 460. Coralloides cupressiforme 
capttults globosis Dill. Muse. p. 117, t. 17. £35. Lichenoides non 
tubulosum ramosissimum, fruticule specie cinereo-fuscum Dill. in Ray, 
Syn. ed. 3, 65. 9.—Lichen globiferus Linn. Mant. (1767) p. 183 is 
a prior name, but being merely the Latin equivalent of Spherophorus 
cannot be retained, nor the still older name—Lichen globosus Huds. 
—Brit. Exs.: Mudd, n. 253; Leight. n. 316; Bohl. n. 5. 
Notwithstanding the specific name, this plant is not nearly so “coral- 
linoid” as the preceding, from which it is distinguished by the rounded 
and laxly branched thallus, the shorter branches, and the persistent sub- 
globose receptacle ot the apothecia. It occurs in extensive patches, 
varying in colour from glaucous in shady to brownish or even reddish in 
exposed habitats, the branches being somewhat shining in the upper portion, 
and the larger ones more or less indistinctly articulate. The apothecia 
are chiefly on the main branches, and remain closed for a considerable 
time. Our figure (p. 103) illustrates their structure: a is a section of the 
thalline receptacle with an apothecium. In the receptacle is an external 
[ee stratum—the c.rtex. In the apothecium there is (1) the columellar 
rown hypothectum, which is blackish above ; (2) a bluish-white stratum, 
which is the Aymenium; and (3) a very thick external black stratum, 
which is the mazedium. The spermogones are terminal either on the 
sterile branches or on the fibrille, and are similar to those of S. com- 
pressus, though more frequent. 
Hab. On rocks and boulders, rarely on the mossy roots of trees, from 
maritime to alpine regions.—Dvstr. General and common in the hilly and 
mountainous tracts of Great Britain and Ireland, rarer in the Channel 
Islands.—B. M.: Islands of Jersey and Guernsey. Tunbridge Wells, 
Kent; Ardingly, Sussex; Vixen Tor, Lustleigh Cleeve, and Hay Tor, 
Dartmoor, Devonshire ; between Arthur’s bed and Wring Cheese, near 
Penzance, and Helminton, Cornwall; Buckstcne, near Monmouth ; Charn- 
wood Forest, Leicestershire; Malvern Hills, Worcestershire; Cromford 
Moor, near Matlock, Derbyshire ; Caer Caradoc and Pentregaer, Oswestry, 
Salop ; Llanberis and Conway Falls, Carnarvonshire ; Cader Idris. Cwm 
Bychan, and Aberdovey, Merionethshire; Island of Anglesea; Kildale 
Moor, Cleveland, Yorkshire; Teesdale and Eglestone, Durham; Kent- 
mere, Westmoreland; the Cheviots, Northumberland. New Galloway, 
Kirkeudbrightshire; Pentland Hills and Dalmahoy Hill, near Fdin- 
burgh ; Inverary and Loch Creran, Argyleshire; the Trossachs, Craig Cal- 
liach, Ben Lawers, Falls of Bruar, and near Loch Ericht, Perthshire ; 
Reeky Linn and Clova, Forfarshire; hills at Nigg, Kincardineshire ; 
Craig Coinnoch and Lochnagar, Braemar, Aberdeenshire ; Glen Nevis, 
Inverness-shire; near Forres, Elginshire; near Lairg, Sutherlandshire. 
Devis Mt., co. Antrim; Killarney, co. Kerry; Connemara, co. Galway. 
Form congestus Lamy, Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. xxv. (1878) p. 349.— 
Thallus small, firm, the branches short, erect, densely aggregate.— 
Cromb. Grevillea, xv. p. 15. 
