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Ireland : — Near Letterfrack ! Connemara. Mr. Larbalestier. (1876). 



"Belongs to the section of L. jurana, Schser. Spores .016 — 22 mm. long, .007 

 — 9 mm. broad. Spermatia cylindrical or obsoletely fusiformi- cylindrical .004 

 — 7 mm. long, .0008 mm. broad." (.Nyl.) Spores .0175 mm. long, .009 mm 

 broad. 



170. L. contortida, Stirt. pale-ciner ascent, or somewhat plumbeo- 

 cinerascent, thickish, rugosulose, rimoso-areolate, (K — C — ) ; apo- 

 thecia black, adnate, rather large, plane or somewhat convex, with 

 a thick margin, umbonate or gyroso-plicate ; hypothecium fuscous- 

 black, fuscous upwards ; paraphyses moderate, distinct, fusco-api- 

 culate ; spores 8, colourless, oblong or fusif or mi-oblong, simple. 



On rocks, rare. 1876. 



Syn :— Stirton in Scottish Naturalist 4. 167. (1877). 



Bot. Pbov :— 16. 



Scotland :— Near Salen, in Mull. Dr. Stirton. (1876). 



" Nearly allied, if not identical with L. aubumhonata, Nyl. Flora 1876. p. 236. 

 Spores .015— .021 mm. long, .006 — .0075 mm. broad. Gelatina hymenea I blue 

 then vinous-red, especially the asci." (Stirt.) 



171. L. spodoplaca, Nyl. cinereous or ochraceous-brovm or 

 leaden-ochraceous, thin, smooth, rimulose or rimoso-diffract ; 

 apothecia black, plane, prominent, margined, concolorous within ; 

 epithecium and hypothecium brown ; spores 8, colourless, oblong, 

 simple ; paraphyses indistinct ; gelatina hymenea I bluish, then 

 Vinous-red. 



On siliceous rocks in a stream with L. lacustris, very rare. 

 1876. 



Syn :— Nyl. in Flora 1877. p. 567. L. baliola, Nyl. in Flora 1876. p. 308. 

 Bot. Prov :— 26. 



Ireland :— Killery Bay, and Kylemore Lake, Connemara, Galway. Mr. 

 Lwrbalestier, 

 " Spores .008—9 mm. long, .002—3 mm. broad." (Nyl.) 



172. L. indigula, Nyl. white, thin, continuous, rugulose, (K — 

 C — ) ; apothecia nigricant, somewhat prominent, plane, margined, 

 internally concolorous ; hypothecium thick, nigro-fuscous, ex- 

 cipulum thin, colourless ; paraphyses. slender, distinct, apices 

 colourless ; spores 8, colourless, ellipsoid or oblong, simple. 



On micaoeO'Schistose stone walls ; very rare. 1877. 



Sin :— Nyl. in Flora 1877. p. 563. 



Bot. Pbov:— 26. 



Ireland :— Glencorbot ! Galway. Mr. Larbalestier. (1877). 

 ' I describe the hypothecium as I saw it in the only specimen, but Nylander 

 1. c. says " hypothecium rufescens parte superasubhymenialicrassdnigrescente. 

 Gelatina hymenea I pale-blue then vinous-red. Spores .013 — 16 mm. long, 

 .006—7 mm. broad." (Nyl.) Spores .017 mm. long, .008 mm. broad. 



******** Thallus evanescent. 

 \ Hypothecium pale. 



173. L. mutdbUis, Fee. evanescent ; apothecia rufo-fuscescent, 

 small, scattered, sessile, plane, margin thin, entire ; hypothecium 

 colourless ; spores 8, colourless, rotundo-oblong, simple, large. 



On trees, Myrica Gale, rare, 1851. 



