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THE LICHEN-FLORA 



aibo-gramiloso-pruinose, (K yellow C — ) ; hypothecium black ; 

 apothecia rare, small, black, plane, depressed, central, crowded, 

 csesio-pruinose, margin paler, entire, flexuose ; spores 8, fuscous 

 or fusco-nigricant, elliptico-oblong, 1-septate or bilocular and 

 nucleolate. 



On old trees, oak, sycamore, lime, ivy, walls and rocks, frequent 

 but rare in fruit. 1785. 



Syn :— Dicks. Crypt 1. 10. (1715.) Ach. Syn. 54. Nyl. Prodr. 119. Mudd 

 Man. 169. 



Fig :— Dicks. Crypt. L t. 2. f. 5. E. Bot. 582. Hepp Sporen t. 6L f. 527. 528. 



Exs :— Hepp 527. 528. Schasr. 576. Welw. Lusit. 54. NyL 137. LarbaL 33. 

 Bohl. 68. M. & N. 1152. Anzi It. Sup. 290. 



Geog. Distbtb : — Normandy, Germany, Switzerland, Portugal, France, 

 Italy, Africa, E. Indies. 



Bot. Pbov:— 1, 2, 3, 4, 5...7...10, 11...15...19...24, 25...30, 31. 



England : — Middleton ! near Oswestry, Shropshire. Sev. T. Salvxy. near 

 St. German's, Cornwall; Isle of Wight! Battenhall ! Worcester. Dr. Holi. 

 Essex. Mr. Pigott. near Ayton ! Cleveland. Mr. Mudd. Gainf ord and Hough ton- 

 le-Spring, Durham ; near Hexham, and Brinkburn Priory, Northumberland. Mr. 

 Winch. Chudleigh ; Exeter, Devon. Mr. Parfitt. Midland Counties. Mr. Purion. 

 Cheam ; Hendon ; Tunbridge Wells. Sev. J. M. Crombie. Plymouth. Mr. 

 Holmes. Southrop ; near Cheltenham. Mr. W. Joshua. Wheatfield Park ! 

 Oxfordshire. Mr. Larbalestier. Broome Park near Hythe, Kent. Mr. Holmes. 

 Sutton ! near Shrewsbury ; Tong Church ! Uriconium ! Salop. 



Scotland : — Appin ; Castleton. Sev. J. M. Orombie. 



Ibeland : — Near Belfast. Mr. Templeton. Kathrouan, ClonmeL Mr. Gough. 

 co. Wicklow. Mr. Moore. Bobert's Cave, Cork j Carrigogummel, Limerick, and 

 Dromoland, Clare. Mr. Carroll. 



Wales : — Barmouth and Dolgelley. Mr. Holmes. Llanbedrog ! Harlech 

 Castle ! 



Channel Islands: — Fliquet Bay! Jersey; Guernsey; Sark. Mr. Larba- 

 lestier. 



" Spermogonia rare, black, punetiform, slightly prominent. Spermatid 

 rather large, straight, cylindrical .00175 in. long, by .0002 in. broad. Spores 

 .0025— .003 in. long, by .001— .00125 in. broad." (Mudd.) " Spores .011—14 

 mm. long, .006 — 7 mm. broad. I intense-blue." (2*. M. Fries.) Spores .0115 — 

 .0135 mm. long, .007 mm. broad. 



195. L. insignis, (Nseg.) sulphury-whitish, tartareous, verru- 

 coso-granulose or subleproxe ; (K yellow C orange or orange-red) ; 

 apothecia rather large, adnate, often confluent, very black, opake, 

 plane, obtusely margined, at length convex ; hymenium fuscous 

 upwards ; paraphyses lax ; hypothecium fuscous ; spores 8, fuscous, 

 rather large, oblong, 1-septate, constricted in the middle. 



forma corticicola, Kbr. 



Syn :— Kbr. Syst. 230. (1855.) Grevillea 1. 134. 



Exs :— Hepp 39. Atiej ItaL Sup. 297. 



Geog. Distbib : — Germany, Switzerland, Italy. 



Bor. Pbov : — 5. 



England : — Bomere Pool, Shropshire ! (1871.) 



Spores .0175 mm. long, .0065 mm. broad. I violet. 



196. L. saxorum, (Mass.) dirty-yellowish-white, thin, minutely 

 areolakHrimulose, plane, nigro-limitate, (K yellow C orange-red) ; 

 apothecia numerous, scattered, sessile, plane, black, margin thick, 

 entire, rather paler ; hypothecium black, or nigro-fuscmis ; spores 8, 

 fuscous, oblong, 1-septate, somewhat curved, nucleolate. 



On rocks, not common. 1870. 



