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THE LICHEN-FLORA 



epithallus shining. Apothecia with indistinct paraphyses. Spores 

 ellipsoid. Spermatia slender, aeicular, apically fusiformi-in- 

 crassate. 



1. A. tricolor, (Ehrh.) black or fusco-nigricant or castaneo- 

 fuscescent, terete, erect, much branched, divaricato-fibrillose, densely 

 intricate, paler at the apices; apothecia lateral, adnate to an obtuse 

 knot of the thallus, small, nigricant ; spores 8, small, shortly 

 ellipsoid. (K = C = ) 



On alpine rocks. 1795. 



Stn :-Ehrh. Beytr. 3. p. 82. (1788) Nyl. Scand. 71. Syn. 279 Mudd Man. 70. 



Fig :— E. Bot. 1853. 



Exs :— M. & N. 167. Scheer. 495. Tuck. 2. Mudd 39. Anzi Ven. 17, Am. 400. 



Geog. Distbib : — Arctic Europe, Switzerland, Erance, Arctic America, 

 Himalaya. 



Bot. Pbov :— 1— 7. . .10. . .15. 



England : — Stansfield Moor, near Halifax. Mr. Baker. Penzance. Mr. 

 Parfttt. Kildare Moor ; High Cliff ! Cleveland and Earndale ! Yorkshire. 

 Mr. Mudd. Dartmoor. Dr. Soil. Cornwall. Dr. Montgomery. 



Scotland : — Ben-y-Gloe. Mr. Dickson. (1795). above Loch Tay. Messrs. 

 Turner <£• Hooker. Aberfeldy, Perthshire. Mr. Macmillan. Top of Lochnagar ! 

 Braemar. Dr. Lindsay, near Top of Ben Lawers! Mr. Carroll. Ciova 

 Mountains. Mr. W. Gardiner. Breadalbane and Braemar! Canlochan. Sen, 

 J. M. Crombie. Killin. Dr. Soil. 



Wales :— Llyn Bodlyn ! and Cwm Bychan, near Barmouth. Rev. T. Salwey. 

 North Wales. Rev. SughDavies. Giant's Pebbles ! Caderldris; AranMowddy! 

 Twll Du ! Llyn-y-GVn ! 



" Spores .007—8 mm. long. .005—6 mm. broad." {Nyl.) " Spores .007—8 mm. 

 long. .005-6 mm. broad." (T. M. Fr.) 



2. A. diver gens, (Ach.) fusco-castaneous or spadiceo-fuscexcent, 

 roundish or subangulate, erect or prostrate, rigescent, somewhat 

 shining, very much branched, branches divergenti-dichotomoiis. 

 (K = C Ted) ; " apotheciis innato-sessilibus, crenulatis, discocas- 

 taneo." Fr. 



On the earth in alpine places ; very rare. 1872. 



Stn :- Comicvlaria, Ach. Meth. 303 (1803). Whlnb. FL Lapp. 439. Nyl. 

 Scand. 71 Syn. 278. Crombie in Journ. Bot. n. s. 2. p. 133. 



Fig : —Ach. Meth. t. 6. f. 1. 



Exs :— Fries 331. Kichardson 64. Smrf. 154. Th. M. Fries 53. 



Geog. Distelb : — Scandinavia, Austria, Arctic America. 



Bot. Pkov :— 15. 



Scotland : — Summit of Cairngorm in Braemar, small state, Rev. J. M. 

 Crombie. (1872). 



2. A. nigricans, (Ach.) castaneo-nigricant, paler at base, terete, 

 or sub-compressed, erect or ascending, opake, dichotorrumsly branched 

 intricate, axils more or less lacunoso-impressed ; apothecia badio- 

 fuscous, lateral or terminal, adnate ; spores 2-3, colourless, large, 

 ellipsoid. (K yellow C red). 



On alpine rocks, rare. 



Syn :— Ach. L. L T . 615. (1810). Nyl. Scand. 71. 



Fig :— NyL Syn. t. 8. f. 17. 



Exs :— Fellm. 54 Korb. 241. Th. Fr. 28. 



Geog. Distbib : — Europe, America. 



Bot. Pbov: — 15. 



Scotland: — Ben Nevis; Braemar; Ben-na-boord ; Een Lawers! Ben-y- 

 gloe ! Ret. J. M. Crombie. Ben Nevis. Aim. Jones. 



In herbaria it tinges the paper with a reddish colour. "Spores 021 — 35 mm 

 long, .015—20 mm. broad." (T. M. Fr.) 



