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THE LICHEN-FLORA 



II. PYRENOPSIS. Nyl. 



Thallus crustaceous, thin, granuloso-areolate, laxly cellulose, 

 internally rubricose, granula gonima agglomerated in globular 

 cells. Apothecia concolorous, minute, urceolato-innate in a 

 prominent margined receptacle, margin somewhat swollen and 

 connivent. Spores simple. 



1. P. hcematopis, (Smrft.) dark or rubricoso-fuscous, crustose, 

 opake, verrucoso^unequal, thickish, diffract, internally subconco- 

 lorous or more nigricant in the lower portion ; spermatia very 

 minute, ellipsoid ; apothecia superficial, urceolate, margins elevated, 

 entire ; spores 8, colourless, ellipsoid, simple. 



On alpine rocks, rare. 1865. 



Syn :— Smrft. Lapp. 117. (1829). Nyl. Lapp. or. 104. Crombie En. 2. 



Exs;— Fellm. 5. 



Geog. Distblb : — Lapland. 



Bot. Pkov : — 15. 



Scotland : — Ben Lawers. Adm. Jones (1865). 



3. P. homceopsis, Nyl. brown, thin effuse, subgranulose ; 

 apothecia concolorous, lecanorine, small, internally pale ; epithecium 

 colourless ; paraphyses slender ; spores 8, colourless, ellipsoid, 

 simple ; gelatina hymenea vinous-red with iodine. 



On micaceous boulders, rare. 1867. 



Syn:— Nyl. hi Flora, 1868. '• p. 342. Crombie in Seeman Journ. Bot. 7. 48. 

 (1869). 

 Bot. Pbov :— 15. 



Scotland — Looh-na-cat, Ben Lawers. (1867) Rev. J. M. Crombie 

 Allied to P. grmrmlifera, Nyl. but distinct. 

 " Spores .011—18 mm. long, .007—10 mm. broad." (Nyl.) 



4. P. fuscatula, Nyl, darkly fuscous or brown-black, minute, 

 noduloso-granulate, effuse, granules agglomerate and confluent in 

 depressed glomerules, more or less distinct, or irregularly scat- 

 tered ; " apothecia jion rite evoluta visa." 



On maritime rocks, rare. 1866. 



Syn :— Nyl. En. Gen. p. 144. (1853). 

 Geog. Distbib . — France. 

 Bot. Pbov:— 7. 15.31. 



Scotland. — Cairn Gowar (3690 ft.) Rev. J. M. CromMe. 

 Wales : — Barmouth ! 



Channel Islands : — Noirmont and La Moye, Boulay Bay, Jersey. Mr Lar- 

 lalestier. (1866). 



5. P. fur/urea, Nyl. fuscous-black or black, w/ien moist rubri- 

 cos(Hn.igricant or rubricoso^rufescent, granulato-areolate ; apothecia 

 nearly urceolariform ; spores 8, colourless, ellipsoid, simple ; gela- 

 tina hymenea vinous-red with iodine. 



On alpine rocks, rare. 1864. 



Syn :— NyL in Flora, 1865. p. 353. Carroll in Seem. Journ. Bot. 3. 286. 

 Bot. Pbov : — 15. 



Scotland :— Summit of Ben Lawers ! ; near Loch Tay and in Glen Doehart. 

 Adm. Jones. (1864). 



6. P. phylliscella Nyl. dark-brown, effuse, squamulose, squam- 

 ides subverruculoso-unequal, subadnate, aggregated, but not con- 

 tinuous, rotundato-deformed ; apothecia endocarpoid, very minute, 



