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elevated concolorous margin, at length convex and immaroinate • 

 hymenium fuscous upwards; paraphyses conglutinate ; hypothecium 

 yellowish ; spores 8, colourless, ellipsoideo- oblong, simple. 

 On trees, rare. 1877. 



Stn :— Anzi Catal. Sondr. p. 76. (1860.) 



Geog. Distrib : — Italy. 



Bot. Pbov :— 26. 



Ireland :— Twelve Pins, Kylemore, Galway. Mr. LarbcUestier. (1877.) 



ft Hypothecium dark, 



75. L. sanguineo-atra, (Ach. pr. p.) cinerascent or virescenti- 

 oinerascent, granulose, thin or sub-continuous or obsolete ; 

 apothecia sanguineous-black, or fuscous-black or fusco-rufescent, 

 moderate, convex, immarginate, fusco-nigricant within ; hymenium 

 paler or pallescent ; hypothecium thick, fuscous ; spores 8, colour- 

 less, ellipsoid or oblong, simple. 



On mosses, trees and earth, in sub-alpine localities, not frequent 



Stn :— Ach. Meth. 50. (1803.) Nyl. Prodr. 106. Scand. 199. Mudd Man. 198 



Bxs :— Nyl. 52. Am. 229. Anzi Langob. 181. 



Geog. Distrib : — Scandinavia, Sweden, Fiance, Pyrenees, Switzerland, 

 Bavaria, Lombardy, Algeria, Arctic America, Great Bear Lake. 



Bot. Pbov :— 5.. .7.. .10.. .15. .19.. .30. 



England : — Broughton Bank and Hoggarts Wood, Ingleby, Cleveland. Mr. 

 Mudd. Downton Castle Woods. Shropshire ! 



Scotland : — Ben Lawers ! Rev. Churchill Babington. Glen Falloeh. Dr. Holl. 



Ireland :— Deer Park, Belfast. Br. Vickie, near Ban try. Miss Hutchins. 



Wales : — Cader Idris. Dr. Soil. Drwsynant ! 



" Gelatina hymenea I blue then vinous-red or violet. Spores 0.010 — 19 long, 

 0.005—8 mm. broad." (.Nyl.) " Gelatina hymenea I commonly distinctly and 

 intensely red, but sometimes at first blue then dark-violet. Spores 0.010 -31 

 mm. long, and 0.004—6 mm. broad." (T. M. Fries.) "Spores .0025 to 003 

 in. long by .001 in. broad." (Mudd.) T, M. Pries (Lich. Scand. .436) says this 

 lichen and its varieties are notably distinguished by cserulescent or violet 

 granules amongst the paraphyses, not found in any other lichen not even in 

 its allies, L. Berengaria and L. albofuscescens, but these do not occur in the 

 specimens above cited. Can our British plant then be referable to L. albo- 

 fuscescens since the thallus is thickish granulose and with K gives a pale dirty 

 yellow ? 



76. L. valentior, Nyl. cinereous or subvirescent, thin, continuous, 

 rimose; apothecia fuscous, immarginate, somewhat plane or convex, 

 often obtusely submdrginate, and margin pallescent ; hypothecium 

 dark-fuscous ; hymenium pale-fuscescent ; paraphyses distinct, 

 apices colourless ; spores 8, colourless, ellipsoid, simple, large. 



On decomposed rocks, rare. 1876, 



Syn :— Nyl. in Flora 1877. p. 229. . 



Bot. Prov :— 26. 



Ireland :— Lough Inagh ! Galway. Mr. LarbcUestier. (1876.) 



" Probably a subspecies of L. sanguineo-atra, from which it scarcely differs 

 except in the constantly larger spores .012—17 mm. long, .006—8 mm. broad." 

 (Nyl.) Spores .0155 mm. long, .0065 mm. broad. 



77. L. fusca, (Schser.) viridulo-ciner ascent, disperso-granidate, 

 thin, evanescent ; apothecia fuscescent or nigricant, opake, adnate, 

 at first plane with a thin elevated margin, then convex and im- 

 marginate ; hypothecium luteo-fuscescent ; spores 8, colourless, ob- 

 long or fusiformi-oblong, simple ; paraphyses distinct, filiform. 



On dead mosses, in moixntainous regions, rare. 



