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THE LICHEN-FLORA 



Wales:— Llyn Aran! Cader Idris. (1866.) Cwm Idwal! Cwm Bochlwyd ! 

 Giltar Point ! Tenby. 



Ibeland : — Bridge near Westport ! co. Mayo. Mr. Larbalesller. 



"Spores 0.011—0.014 mm. long, 0.007—0.009 mm. broad." (Nyl.) Spores 

 .007 mm. long, .003— .004 mm. broad. 



34. L. antrophila, Larbal. ochraceo-virescent, thin, effuse, pul- 

 verulento-furfuraceous, (K — C — ) ; apot/iecia fulvo-rufescent, small, 

 scattered, excessively convex and prominent, sessile, immarginate, a 

 very pale narrow margin only appearing when wetted ; hypothecium 

 darkly-fulvo-rufescent, thick ; hymenium colourless : paraphyses in- 

 distinct, apices colourless ; spores 8, colourless, linear, or lineari- 

 oblong, simple, very minute. 



On the interior of caves, rare. 1877. 



Stn : — Leight. in Linn. Trans. 2d. ser. 1. 242. 

 Fig :— Linn. Trans. 1. c. t. 33. f. 10 & 11. 

 Bot. Pbov :— 26. 



Ibeland : — Mweelan ! near Kylemore, co. Galway. Mr. Larbalestier. (1877.) 

 A very remarkable and apparently distinct species. Gelatina hymenea I very- 

 pale-blue. Spores .009 mm. long, .0025 mm. broad. 



35. L. polyantha, Tayl. pale-brown, tartareous, ihinnish, plane, 

 rimuloso-areolate, furfuraceous, (K yellow C orange-yellow) ; apo- 

 ihecia black, small, subinnate or innato-sessile, margin thick and very 

 prominent, entire ; hypothecium pale-rufescent ; paraphyses dis- 

 tinct, apices pale, I blue but asci brown ; spores 8, colourless, ellip- 

 soid or oblong, simple. 



On sandstone blocks, rare. 



Stn :— Tayl. MS. in berb, Borrer ! 

 Exs :— Anzi Licb. Ital. Sup. 268. 269. 

 Geog. Distbie : — Italy. 

 Bot. Pbov :— 2.. .7. 



England : — Hurstpierpoint ! Mr. Borrer. 

 Wales :— Festiniog road, Dolgelley ! 



Very similar generally to L. sympathetica and L. crustulata, but recognizable 

 by different diagnoses. Spores .011 — .012 mm. long, .007 mm. broad. 



36. L. msticella, Nyl. _ ochraceo-whitish, thin, subleprose ; apo- 

 tJiecia black, opake, convex, immarginate, internally dark ; paraphyses 

 indistinct; epithecium and hypothecium fuscous or fuscescent; 

 spores 8, colourless, sub-oblong, simple. 



On micaceo-schistose ferruginous rocks, rare. 1877. 



Stn:— Nyl. in Flora 1878. p. 246. 



Bot. Pbov:— 26. 



Ibeland : — Kylemore. Mr. Larbalestier. (1877). 



"Spores .006— 9mm long, .0025—35 mm, broad. Gelatina hymenea I blue 

 then vinoso-fulvescent or vinoso-subruf escent. To be compared with L. rusti- 

 ctda, Nyl. in Flora 1866. p. 371. from which it differs in the different thalius and 

 smaller spores. It varies with a paler hypothecium." (Nyl.) 



ttt Hypothecium colourless. 



37. L. limosa, Ach. albido-cinerascent, subleprose, thin or 

 furfuraceous, effuse, (K — C — ) ; apotlucia black, scattered or crowded 

 and conglomerate ; opake, naked, convex, subglobose, internally 

 cinerascent, adnate ; hypotliecium colourless or slightly-fuscescent ; 

 spores 8, colourless, ellipsoid, or fusiformi-ellipsoid, simple. 



On the earth in mountain ranges, rare. 1870. 



