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THE LICHEN-FLORA 



apothecia black, numerous, crowded, small, sessile, plane or plano- 

 convex, margin thin, smooth, paler, eventually obliterated ; 

 hypothecium colourless; spores 8, colourless, broadly-oblong, sim- 

 ple, with 2 nuclei. 



On rocks and stone walls, frequent. 



. Stn :— Ach. L. IT. 177. (1810.) Syn. 19. Nyl. Scand. 217. Mudd Man. 201. 



Fig : — Hepp Sporen t. 3. f. 6. 



Exs :-Leight. 330. Zw. 13. 14. Schasr. 531. Mudd 172. Hepp 6. 129. Anzi 

 Venet. 76. Nyl. 57. 



Geog. Distbib :— Switzerland, Germany, Italy, France, Pyrenees, Sweden. 



BOT. Pbov ;— 1, 2, 3...5...7...10...26...3L 



England: — Near Battersby! Mr. Mudd. Llanf orda ! near Oswestry; Pen- 

 zance ! Rev. T. Salwey. Devon. Mr. ParM. Kelvedon ; Copford, Essex. Mr. 

 Varenne. St. Leonard's Forest, Sussex. Mr. W. Joshua. Tong Priory Walls ! 

 Leebotwood ! Haughmond Hill ! Brown Clee Hill ! Llanf orda ! Grinshill ! 

 Shropshire. 



Ibelasd : — Loughcooter, Galway. Mr. Carroll. 



Wales :— Aberdovey ! Rev. A. Bloxam. Barmouth ! Holyhead ! Moel-y-gest ! 



Channel Islands :— Common on all the Islands. Mr. Larbalestier. 



" Spores 0.010—15 long, 0.006—9 mm. broad." (Nyl.) Spores .0135— .015 

 mm. long, .0085 — .01 mm. broad. Paraphyses distinct, apices fuscous or 

 blackish, I blue. Excipulum externally laterally slightly nigricant. 



65. L. minuta, (Scheer.) greenish-whitish or cream-coloured, very 

 thin, granulate, indeterminate or obsolete, (K — C — ) ; apothecia 

 minute, numerous, scattered, adnate, plane, pallido-testaceous, red- 

 dish or nearly bla-ck when old, and then convex and immarginate ; 

 -hypothecium pale ; paraphyses indistinct, apices colourless ; spores 8, 

 colourless, elliptical or oblong, simple, minute ; gelatina 

 hvmenea I vinous-red. 



On trees, not common. 1854. 



Stn :— Schaer. Spicil. 170. 0833.) Enum. 139. Mudd Man. 195. Nyl. Lapp. 

 Or. 145. Biatora sylvana, Korb. S. L. G. 200. 



Fig :— Hepp Sporen t. 4. f. 17. f. and t. 56. 487. 



Exs :— Hepp 17. 487. 733. Am. 47. 416. Mudd 163. Leight. 298. 



Geog. Distbib : — Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Bavaria, Hungary. 



BOT. PBOV :r-2, 3...5...10...15. 



England : — Airyholme Wood ! ; Hoggarts Wood, Ingleby, Cleveland. Mr. 

 Mudd. (1854.) New Forest; Isle of Wight. Rev. J. M. Crombie. near Malvern. 

 Dr. Boll. Braxted, Essex. Mr. Varenne. 



Scotland : — (f. saxicola) Kincardine. Rev. J. M. Crombie. 



"Spores .0025— .003 in. long, .00075 in. broad." (Mudd). "Spores 0.009— 

 15 mm. long, 0.003-4 mm. broad." (T. M. Fr.) " Spores 0.007- 0.011 mm. 

 long, 0.003— 4 mm. broad." (Nyl.) Spores .011— .0135 mm. long, .004— 5 mm. 

 broad. 



Var. sarcopsioides, (Mass.) dirty-white or sub-virescent, granu- 

 iose, effuse ; apothecia dark-violet, globulose, caesia-pruinose. 

 On old posts, &c, rare. 



Stn :— Mass. Kic. 128. (1852.) Am. in Flora 1863. p. 330. Crombie En. 69. 



Fig :— Mass. Bic. fig. 252. 



Exs :— Anzi Venet. 61. 62. 



Geog. Distbib : — Italy. 



Bot. Pbov :— 2.. .10. 



England :— Shahklin ; Lyndhurst ; Rev. J. M. Crombie. Cleveland. Mr. 

 Mudd. 



" Spores .0061 mm. long, .00122 mm. broad." [Mass.) Spores .008 — .01 mm. 

 long, .003— ,0035 mm. broad. 



66. L. tenebricosa, (Ach.) greenish-white or cream-coloured, 

 very thin, granulate, indeterminate or obsolete, (K — C — ) ; apothe- 

 cia fuscous or rufo-fuscouSf minute, scattered, "nlane, margined ; 



