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THE LICHEN-FLORA 



cancellato-insculpted or rimose ; apoihecia on tlie margins of the 

 areola, sessile, black, plane, naked, margin thin, eventually 

 obliterated ; hypothecium nearly black, thick ; spores 8, colourless, 

 elongato-ellipsoid, simple or obscurely hilocular ; (thallus K — C — .) 

 On calcareous rocks, rare. 1791. 



Syn :-Gouan Montp. 88. (1796.) Nyl. Prodr. 120. Mudd Man. 173. 



Fie :— Linn. Trans. 1. 1. 4. f. 3. 



Exs :— Schaa-. 575. Mass. 29. Anzi It. S. 245. 



Geog. Distkib : — France, Algeria, Germany, Italy. 



Bot.Pkov:— 1...8. 



England : — Babbicombe, Devon. Adm. Jones. Upton ! near Torquay, Devon. 

 Dr. Deakin. Dovedale. Mr. Holmes. 



"Spores. 0025 to .003 in long, by .00075 in. broad." (Mudd.) "4to5times 

 longer than broad." (Kara.) "Spermatda straight, minute, sterigmata nearly 

 simple." (Nyl.) Spores .011 — .014 mm. long, .004— .005 mm. broad. 



16. L. intumescens, (Flot.) fusco-dnereous or cervino-fuscescent, 

 determinate, sub-squamoso-plicato-verruculose, areolato-diffract ; apo- 

 ihecia black, numerous, crowded, minute, innato-appressed, plane, 

 margin thin, prominent, flexuose ; hypothecium nigro-fuscous ; 

 spores 8, colourless, ellipsoid, simple. 



In insulated patches between the thallus of Lecanora glaucoma 

 on rocks, frequent. 1854. 



Syn : — L. badia v. intumescens, Flot. Lich. Siles. No. 175. (1829.) NyL Scand. 

 231. L. insvlaris, NyL Bot. Not. 1852. p. 177. Mndd Man. 205. 



Fig ;— Mudd Man. t. 3. f . 76. 



Exs :— Nyl. 58. Leight. 161. Mudd 174. Kabh. 749. Anzi Langob. 330. 



Geog. Distkib : — France, Sweden, Denmark, Lombardy, Austria, West- 

 phalia. 



Bot. Prov:— 5, 6, 7... 10... 15. 



England : — Cliffrigg ! Lounsdale ! Cleveland. Mr. Mudd. Oakham Dingle ! 

 near Church Stretton ; Pontesf prd Will ! Caer Caradoc ! Shropshire. 



Scotland : — Portlethen, Coast of Kincardineshire. Mev. J. M. Crombie. 



Wales :— Gimlet Bock ! Pwltelli. Fort Hill ! near Fishguard. St. David's ! 

 Pembrokeshire. 



Paraphyses indistinct with dark-fuscous apices, I pale-blue then dirty-violet. 

 "Spores 0.010—12 mm. long, 0.005—6 mm. broad." (Nyl.) " 0.010—13 mm. 

 long, 0.005—6 mm. broad." (T. M. Fr.) ".0025— .003 in. long, by .001 in. 

 broad." (Mudd.) .012 mm. long, .006 mm. broad. 



17. L. lugubris, Smmrf. fusco-cinereous, cartilaginous, thickish, 

 squamuloso-areolate, granuloso-concrete, glebvloso-diffract ; apoihecia 

 black, opake, superficial, plane, margin thick, entire, hymenium 

 cinerascent ; hypothecium nigro-fuscous ; spores 8, colourless, 

 sphaerical, simple, minutely multi-nucleolate. 



On sub-alpine rocks, rare. 1856. 



Syn :— Sommerfelt Suppl. Fl. Lapp. 143. pr. p. (1826.) NyL ! Obs. Holm. 

 176. Scand. 232. 293. Lindsay in Micr. Journ. 5. 177. Mudd Man. 213. 



Fig : — Micr. Journ. 5. t. 11. 



Exs :— Fries L. S. 351. Mudd 183. Th. M. Fries 19. Crombie 91. 



Geog. Distrlb : — Sweden, Norway, Finland, Bavaria, Prussia. 



Bot. Pkov:— 10...15. 



England :— Old wall. East of Cook's Monument ! Ayton, Cleveland. Mr. 

 Mudd. Cronkley Scar, Yorkshire. Mr. MartindoXe. 



Scotland :— West of village of Braemar, co. Aberdeen. Dr. Lindsay. (1856.) 

 Ben Lawers ! Mr. Hugh Macmillan. Castleton ! Braemar. Adm. Jones. Foot of 

 Ben-y-gloe ; Glen Fender ; Craig Tulloch, Blair Athole. jftev. J. M. Crombie. 



Paraphyses slender, distinct, slightly incrassate at the apices, I dirty-yellow. 



Spores uniseriate in the ascus, " diam. 0.008—9 mm." (Nvl.) " diamO 008 9 



mm." (T. M. Fr.) ".00175 in. diam." (Mudd.) diam. .008— ,011 mm. "Sper- 



