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THE LICHEN-FLORA 



Stn :— Stirton in Scottish Naturalist 4. 165. (1877.) 



Bot. Pbov:— 16. 



Scotland : -MulL Dr. Stirton. (1877.) 



" Spores .011— .014 mm. long, .006— .007 mm. broad. Gelatins hymeneal 

 blue then flavescent and the asci fulveseent. The epithecium is overlaid with 

 a dense granular darker layer." (Stirt.) 



10. L. sporeta, (Stirt.) whitish, disperso-squamulose, squamides 

 small, oppressed, plane or somewhat convex and sometimes crenu- 

 late (K — C — ) ; apothecia fuscous or fuscous-black, very crovided, 

 adnate, plane, obtusely margined, somewhat shining, small ; hypo- 

 thecium colourless ; paraphyses not well discrete, apices fuscescent ; 

 spores 8, colourless, ellipsoid, simple. 



On rocks, rare. 1877. 



Stn :— Stirton in Scottish Naturalist 4. 166. (1877.) 

 Bot. Pbov :— 16. 



Scotland :— Island of Mull. Dr. Stirton. (1877.) 



"Spores .011 — .015 mm. long, .005 — .006 mm. broad. Gelatina hymenea I 

 blue then fulveseent." (Stirt.) 



11. L. pissodes, (Stirt.) fusco-badious or fuscous-black, squamu- 

 loso-diffract, squamules small, somewhat concave or plane, (K — 

 C — ) ; apothecia black, crowded, innate, small, plane, slightly 

 margined ; hypothecium colourless ; paraphyses indistinct, irregular, 

 slender, apices black or darkly-blue-black ; spores 8, colourless, 

 oblong, simple. 



On rocks, rare. 1877, 



Stn :— Stirton in Scottish Naturalist 4. 166. (1877.) 

 Bot. Pbov :— 16. 



Scotland :— Island of Mull. Dr. Stirton. (1877.) 



"Spores .007— .01 mm. long, .0035-.0045 mm. broad. Gelatina hymenea I 

 blue then fulveseent." (Stirt.) 



ft Hypothecium dark. 



12. L. lurida, (Swartz.) lurido-fuscescent, imbricato-squamose, 

 squamules rigescent, sub-horizontal, sub-orbicular, smooth, sinuato- 

 lobate, under surface white, (K — C — ) ; apothecia nigro-fuscous, 

 adnate, plane or convex, margin thin, flexuose, soon obliterated ; 

 hypothecium thick, dark-brown; spores 8, colourless, ellipsoid, 



On earth among calcareous rocks. 1793. 



Stn :— Swartz Nov. Act. UpsaL 4. 247. (1784.) Ach. Syn. 51. Nyl. Scand. 192. 

 Mudd Man. 170. 



Fig :— E. Bot. 1329. Sturm D. PI. t. 27. Hepp Sporent. 14. f. 121. 



Exs:— Anzi It. S. 239. Dicks. 25. Mass. 67. 68. Nyl. 131. M. & N. 643 HenD 

 121. Schaer. 157. Larbal. 31. Crombie 79. K*ich. & Schub. 47. 



Geoc. DlsTRiB : — Sweden, Norway, Italy, Pyrenees, Hungary, France, 

 Switzerland, Bavaria, Algeria. 



Bot. Pbov :— 1...7...12...15...23...26...31. 



England :— Cumberland. Mr. Dickson. (1793.) Eglestone, Durham. Bev. J. 

 Harriman. Middleton ! Teesdale. Mr. Robertson. Babbicombe ! Mr. Borrer. 

 Buxton ; Malham. Dr. Carrington. Bathford Hill, Bath. Dr. Holl. 



Scotland : — Ben Lawers. Adrn. Jones. Craig Guie, Ben. J. M. Crombie. 



Wales :— Cellfawr, Barmouth 1 Rev. T. Salwey. Eglwyseg rocks ! Great 

 Orme's Head ! 



The excipulum is dark-brown,_ and horny in_ texture, inclosing a thick dark- 

 brown medullary mass upon which the bymenium rests. Paraphyses densely 

 coherent, apices rufescent. I brown with greenish hue, but NyL and T. M. Fr. 



