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THE LICHEN-FLORA 



Exs :— Nyl. 122. Hepp 180. Mudd 116. 



Geog. Distrtb :— Sweden, Germany, Helvetia, France. 



Bot. Pkov :— 2, 3.. .5, 6...8...10...15...(19— 30). 



England : — Near Ayton ! Cleveland. Mr. Mudd. Kelvedon, Essex. Mr. 

 Varenne. Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire. Rev. A. Bloxam. Guestling, 

 Sussex. Rev. E. If. Bloomfield. Maidstone, Shoreham, Wrotham, Folkestone, 

 Seven Oaks, Kent. Mr Holmes. Walls of Tong Priory ! Shropshire. 



Scotland : — Near Aberdeen. Rev. J. M. Grombie. 



Ibeland : — Common. Mr. Carroll. 



Wales : — Fishguard Harbour ! Pembrokeshire. 



" Spores .003 in. long, by .00125 in. broad. Spermatia cylindrical, elegantly 

 curved or flexuose."' (Mudd.) " Spores .009 — .010 mm. long, .005 — 6 mm. 

 broad." (Nyl.) 



Forma dispersa, (Pers.) sub-crustaceous ; apothecia dispersed' 

 livido-pallescent or subcarneous or nigrescent, pruinose, margin 

 white, crenulate ; thallus K — C — . 



On lime-rocks, frequent. 



Stn :— Persoon in Ust. Ann. Bot. st. 7. p. 27. (1794.) Ach. Syn. 187. Nyl. in 

 Bull. Soc. Bot. Franc. 13. p. 378. 



Fig :— Hepp Sporen t. 8. f. 61. 



Exs :— Hepp 61. Zw. 261. 



Geog. Distblb : — Northern Europe, France, Germany, Switzerland. 



Bot. Pkov :— 1...5, 6.. .10.. .26.. .31. 



England : — Battersby Bank and Carlton Bank, Cleveland. Mr. Mudd. 

 Chance's Pitch, Malvern. Dr. Hott. Starcross, Devon. Mr. Parftt. Grove Lane, 

 near Cirencester. Mr. W. Joshua. 



Ireland : — Killery Bay and Lettermore, Connemara. Mr. Larbalestier. 



Channel Islands : — KozeL Jersey. Mr. Larbalestier. 



Wales : — Caswell Bay ! Mumbles. Fishguard Harbour ! Pembrokeshire. 



Channel Islands ; — Kozel, Jersey. Mr Larbalestier. 



Spores .009 — .011 mm, long, .005—6 mm. broad. 



Forma livida, (Ach.) whitish, rimoso-areolate, glabrous, areolae 

 crenulate at the margins; apothecia minute, crowded, immersed, 

 disk plane, livido-cameous, thalline margin entire. 



On rocks, rare. 



Syn :— Ach. L. U. 375. (1810.) Syn. 170. Crombie Enum. 50. 



Geog. Distb™ : — Europe. 



Bot. Pbov :— 16. 



Scotland : — Appin. Rev. J. M. Crombie. 



Forma verrucosa, Leight. thallus in white dispersed, convex, verru- 



cose masses, in which the apothecia are imbedded. 



Bot. Pbov : — 6. 



Wales : — Bracelet Bay ! Mumbles, near Swansea. 



48. L. subluta, Nyl. whitish, thin, minutely granulate, indeter- 

 minate (K — C — ) ; apothecia pale yellow or luteo-sublivid, crowded, 

 difformed by mutual pressure, thalline margin subcrenate ; spores 8, 

 colourless, ellipsoid ; paraphyses not very distinct ; gelatina 

 hymenea I blue then vinous-red. 



On dry calcareous rocks, rare. 1876. 



Stn :— Nyl. in Flora 1876. p. 232. 

 Bot. Pbov :— 26. 



Ibeland: — Near Kylemore, Galway. Mr. Larbalestier. (1876.) 

 A distinct species of the stirps of L. gcUactina. Spores .010 — 12 mm. long, 

 .005 — 6 mm. broad. 



Var. perspersa, Nyl. thallus deficient ; apothecia distantly 

 dispersed. 



On calcareous rocks, very rare. 1876. 



