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3. R. farinacea Ach. Lich. Univ. (1810) p. 606.—Thallus sub- 
rigid, roundly or planely compressed, sublacunose or obsoletely 
nervoso-plicate, white straw-coloured or pale-glaucous; lacinie 
linear, attenuate, sorediiferous (medulla and soredia K—). Apo- 
thecia pedicellate, small, terminal and lateral, plane or convex, 
glaucescent or pale-testaceous, the receptacle smooth beneath ; spores 
straight, ellipsoideo-oblong or fusiformi-ellipsoid, 0,008-16 mm. 
long, 0,004-7 mm. thick.—Gray, Nat. Arr. i. p. 407; Hook. Fl. 
Scot. ii. p. 68; Sm. Eng. Fl. v. p. 225; Tayl. in Mack. Fl. Hib. ii. 
p. 85; Leight. Lich. Fl. ed. 2, p. 472, ed. 3, p. 84.—Ramalina 
calicaris e. farinacea Mudd, Man. p. 73; Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 25 ; 
Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 93. Lichen farinaceus Linn. Sp. Pl. (1753) 
p- 1146; Huds. Fl. Angl. p. 451; Lightf. Fl. Scot. ii. p. 833; With. 
Arr. ed. 3, iv. p.50; Eng. Bot. t. 889. Lichenoides segmentis angus- 
tioribus, ad margines verrucosis et pulverulentis Dill. Muse. 172, 
t. 23. f. 63.3, c.— Brit. Evs.: Leight. n. 40; Mudd, n. 45; Cromb. 
n. 22. 
The thallus, which varies somewhat in the length and breadth of the 
lacinie, is more or less sprinkled with white-pulverulent, round or oblong 
marginal soredia. Occasionally these are almost absent, when it seems 
to merge into the preceding. The apothecia, which are small, are rare 
in this country, as well as the spermogones, which are similar to thuse of 
R. calicaris. 
Hab. On the trunks and branches of trees in wooded lowland and 
upland districts.—Distr. General and usually plentiful throughout Great 
Britain; apparently rare in Ireland and the Channel Islands.—B. M.: 
Boulay Bay, Island of Jersey. Near Loughton, Epping Forest, Essex ; 
Shiere, Surrey; Glynde, Sussex; Lydd, Kent; Laudharst, New Forest, 
Hants; Carrisbrook, Isle of Wight; Penzance and Withiel, Cornwall ; 
Madingley, Caml ridgeshire ; Gopsall, Leicestershire ; Malvern and Broad- 
was, Worcestershire; Causeway, Warwickshire ; Dynevor Castle, Car- 
marthenshire; Island of Anglesea; Bettws-y-Coed, Denbighshire; near 
Oswestry and Shrewsbury, Shropshire; Newton, Cleveland, Yorkshire ; 
Teesdale and Eglestone, Durham; Stavely, near Kendal, Westmoreland ; 
Alston, Cumberland. New Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire ; near Edin- 
burgh ; ao Argyleshire; Loch Katrine, Finlarig, Craig Calliach, 
Blaeberry Hill, Balthayock Woods, Perthshire; Baldovan Wood, For- 
farshire ; Countesswells Woods, near Aberdeen and Invercauld, Braemar, 
Aberdeenshire; Glen Nevis, Inverness-shire; Lairg, Sutherlandshire ; 
Applecross, Ross-shire. Near Cork; Dunkerron, co. Kerry. 
Form 1. pendulina Ach. Lich. Univ. (1810) p. 607.—Thallus 
more lax, longer and pendulous, the lacinis rather broader.— 
Cromb. Grevillea, 1886, p. 47.—Parmelia farinacea y. pendulina 
Ach. Meth. (1803) p. 264. 
A mere luxuriant form, which is but sparingly fertile. 
Hab. On trunks of old trees in wooded districts.—Distr. Local and 
rare in §.W. England; no doubt to be detected elsewhere.—B. M.: New 
Forest, Hampshire. 
Form 2. phalerata Ach. Lich. Univ. (1810) p. 607.—Thallus 
small; laciniee short, somewhat broad, usually proliferous at the 
