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THE LICHEN-FLORA 



On micaceo-schistose rocks, rare. 1877. 



Stn :— Nyl. in Flora 1877. p. 463. 



Bot. Pkov :— 26. 



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



Var. subviridans, Nyl. yellow, plane, thin, areolato-diffract, 



sorediate, (C orange) ; excipulum nigricant ; hypothecium fuscous. 



On walls, rare. (1877). 



Stn :— Nyl. L c. 



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



105. L. idiginascens, Stirt. ficscous or fusco-nigricant, minutely 

 granvlose, effuse ; apothecia black, plane or subconvex, internally K 

 violet ; hypothecium fuscous-black ; paraphyses few, irregular, slender; 

 spores 8, colourless, oblong, simple. 



On turfy earth, rare. 1877. 



Stn :— Stirton in Scottish Naturalist 4. p. 164. (1877.) 

 Bot. Pbov :— 16. 



Scotland :— Near Garve. Dr. Stirton. (1877.) 



"(Gelatina hymenea I very pale-blue then dark-vinous-red. Spores .01 — .013 

 mm. long, .006— .007 mm. broad." (Stirt.) 



***** Thallus areolate, areola convex or granular. 

 t Hypothecium pale or colourless. 



106. L. aglaia, Smmrf. flavescent or ochroleucous and virescenti- 

 cinereous, crustaceous, thickish, areolato-diffract, rimose, areolae 

 tumid, convex, generally minutely diffracto-insculpt or unequally 

 rugose or smoothish, (K yellow G yellow Jj hypoihallus black ; apo- 

 thecia black, innate in the areolae, moderately large, plano-convex, 

 somewhat shining, immarginate, darkly dnerascent within ; hypo- 

 thecium pale, slightly rufescent; spores 8, colourless, ellipsoid, 

 simple ; thalamium cseruleo-cinerascent, epithecium ceeruleo-nigri- 

 cant ; paraphyses indistinct, apices fuliginous ; gelatina hymenea 

 cserulescent with iodine. 



On alpine rocks, rare. 1808. 



Stn :— Smmrf. Suppl. Fl. Lapp. 144. (1826.) Nyl. Scand. 228. L. Crombiei, 

 Jones ! NyL in Flora 1868. p. 345. Crombie Enum. 82 ! L. viridiatra, Borr ! 

 Br. Fl. 2. 177. 



Fig :— E. Bot. 1831. 



Exs :— Zw. 23. Anzi Langob. 150. 



Geog. Distbib ; — Norway, Finland, Sweden, Lapland, Switzerland, Hun- 

 gary, Italy. 



Hot. Pbov:— 7.. .11. ..15. ..19.. .26. 



England :— Near Winch Bridge ; near Whey-Syke, Teesdale Forest, Dur- 

 ham. Rev. J. Harrirnan. (1808.) 



Scotland :— Ben Lawers ! Dr. Soil. Glen Callater ; Ben Cruachan ! Ehoil, 

 Braemar. N.E. brow of Craig Tulloch. Rev. J. M. Crombie. 



Ibeland : — Mangerton. Mr. Carroll, summit of Diamond Mountain ! co. 

 Galway. Mr. Larbalestier. 



Wales ;— Mynydd-y-Gader ! ! near Dolgelley. Dr. Soil. Cader Idris north 

 escarpment ! Llyn Cwlyd ! Aran Mowddwy ! Llanbedrog ! Llyn Geirionydd ! 

 Sychnant ! near Conway. Twll Du ! Glyder Vach ! Cwm Ffynnon lloer ! 



"Spores .010—16 mm. long, .006—8 mm. broad. I blue then dirty-violet. 



Spermatia sub-cylindrico-elongate 0.006 — 8 mm. long and 0.0010 15 mm. 



broad." (T. M. Fr.) " Spores .010— 15 mm. long, .006 — 7 mm broad." (Nvl i 

 Spores .014— .0145 mm. long, .007— 8 mm broad. Medulla I—. 



A remarkable species, readily recognised by the tumid convex areolae of the 

 thallus and the innate deep-black and shining apothecia, 



