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THE LICHEN-FLORA 



Walks : — Fort TTill ! Goodwick Bay ! near Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. 



Channel Islands :— Jersey. Mr. LarbaUstier. 



L. spuria, Schser. is similar externally, but differs in the colourless hypothe- 

 cium, smaller spores and chemical reaction K yellow C red, and also from L 

 atroalbeUa which has reaction K yellow then red. "Spores .024 — .034mm. 

 long, .012—17 mm. broad." (Nyl.) Spores .025— .029 mm. long, .013— .0145 

 mm. broad. 



203. L. badioatra, Flk. fuscous or fusco-griseous, tartareous, 

 areolato-diffract, rimulose, areola plano-convex, scattered or concres- 

 cent (K brownish C tavmy-yellow) ; apothecia sub-innate, appressed, 

 plane, black, margin thin, entire or flexuoae ; hypothecium black ; 

 spores 8, fuscous, oblongo-ellipsoid, 1-septate, large. 



On alpine schistose rocks, rare. 



Stn:— Flk. in Sprengel N. Entdeck. 2. 95. (1821.) Schser. Enum. 111. NyL 

 Scand. 233. 



Fig :— Hepp Sporen t. 5. f. 32. 



Exs :— Schasr. 179. A "" Langob. 191. Anzi It. S. 291. Hepp 753. 32. 



Geog. Distbib :— Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Transylvania. 



Bot. Pbov :— 15...23. 



Scotland : — Loch-na-Cat, Ben Lawers. Rev. J. M. Oronibie. 



Ieeland : — Killarney. Adm. Jones. 



Distinct from L. atroalba by the different reaction. "Spores .030—36 mm. 

 long, .015—18 mm. broad." (Nyl.) "Spores .027—36 mm. long, .011—18 

 mm. broad." (T. M. Fries. ) Spores .0295— .0305 mm. long, .012— .013 mm. 

 broad. 



204. L. atrobadia, Nyl. dull-brown or greyish-brown, thinnish, 

 areolato-diffract, hypothdllus black, radiating at the circumference, 

 (medulla I — ) ; apothecia black, somewhat convex, immarginate, 

 concolorous within ; epithecium violet-brown, with K faintly 

 purple ; hypothecium brown ; spores 8, brown or blackish, oblong, 

 1-septate ; gelatina hymenea intensely-bluish with iodine. 



On quartzose rocks. 1871. 



Stn : -NyL in Flora 1872. p. 361. Crombie in Journ. Bot. n. a. 2. 135. 



Bot. Pbov : — 15. 



Scotland : — Summits of Ben-y-Gloe and Cairn Gowar, Blair Athole. Rev. 

 J. M. OrowUe. (1871.) 



"Allied to £. badio-atm. Spores .028—30 mm. long, .010—14 mm. broad." 

 (Nyl.) 



205. L. coniops, (Whmb.) cinereo-ferruginous, thickish, verru- 

 culoso-granvlate, unequal, granules minute, crenate, at length con- 

 glomerate, (K— C — ) ; hypothallus nigricant, radiant ; apothecia 

 minute, adnate, black, naked, margin thin, elevated, entire ; exci- 

 pulum nigro-fuscous ; hypothecium fuscescent ; paraphyses distinct, 

 apices incrassate, fuscous ; asci ventricoso-clavate ; spores 8, 

 f uligineo-fuscous, ellipsoid, obtuse at the apices, slightly constricted 

 in the middle. 



On maritime rocks, rare. 1870. 



Stn :— Whlnbg. in Ach. Meth. Suppl. 8. (1803.) Ach. Syn. 20. NyL Scand. 

 237. Lapp. Or. 162. 



Exs :— Th. M. Fries. 69. 



Geog. Distbib : — Norway, Lapland. 



Bot. Pbov :— 15. 



Scotland : — Nigg and Portlethen. Kincardine ! Rev. J. M. Orombie. 



" Spores .012—17 mm. long, .008 — 9 mm. broad. Spores .011—18 mm. long, 

 i007— .011 mm. broad. (Nyl.) "Spores 011—18 mm. long, .007—11 mm. 

 broad. Spermatia acicular, arcuate ; sterigmata simple." (T. M. Fries.) 

 Spores .0175 — 19 mm. long, .0095 mm. broad. 



