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Fries.) "Spores .006 — 7 in. long by .003 in. broad." {Mudd.) Paraphyses 

 slender, oonglutinate, apices fuliginous. Spores .022 — .027 mm. long, ,013 — 

 .0145 mm. broad ; epispore thick. 



232. L. Laureri, (Hepp) whitish, very thin, smooth, contiguous 

 or rimulose, (K yellow C — ) ; apothecia violet-black, moderate, 

 numerous, solitary or confluent, plane . or plano-convex, sessile, 

 margin thin, pale, soon obliterated, internally dusky ; hymenium 

 violet-black ; hypothecium reddish-violet-black ; excipulum pale, not 

 black or black-purple ; paraphyses coherent, apices fuligineo- 

 nigricant ; gel. hym. I blue then darkly discoloured ; spores 8, 

 colourless, oblong or ellipsoid, 1-septate. 



On trees, rare. 1869. 



Stn :—Gatillaria Laureri, Hepp in Arn. Exs. 353. (1867). T. M. Fries L. 

 Scand, 582. Lecidea intermixta, Nyl. Scand. 194. (exel. var.) Leight. L. PI. 2nd 

 ed. 314. Crombie En. 64. 



Exs :— Arn. 353. Kabh. 804. Zw. 397. 



Geog. Distrib : — Sweden, Denmark. 



Bot. Pbov :— 2... 31. 



England : — New Forest ! near Lyndhurst, and Eingwood, Hants. Rev. J. M. 

 Crombie. (1869). 



" "Spores .012-17 mm. ling, .006— .0075mm. broad." (T.M. Fries.) Spores 

 .016 mm. long, .007 mm. broad. Apothecia when moistened dark, from the 

 dark hypothecium, which, as well as other characters, distinguish it from L, 

 atropurpurea, Schser., with which it is apt to be confounded. 



233. L. coniristans, Nyl. fuscous or fusco-nigricant, thin, granu- 

 lose ; apothecia black, somewhat convex, immarginate, dusky within ; 

 spores 8, colourless, ellipsoid or oblong, 1-septate ; paraphyses 

 indistinct ; epithecium nigricant ; hypothecium dusky ; gelatina 

 hymenea cserulescent, then dusky-yellow with iodine. 



On mosses in alpine localities, rare. 1864. 



Stn :— Nyl. in Plora 1865. p. 354. Crombie En. 72. 

 Geog. Disteib : — Europe. 

 Bot. Pbov :— 15. 



Scotland : — Near summit of Ben Lawers. Mr. Carroll. (1864.) 

 " Systematically near L. melcena, Nyl. Spores ,010 — 14 mm. long, ,0045 — 

 .0065 mm. broad." {Nyl.) 



234. L. Templetoni, Tayl. greyish-white, thin, effuse, granulose, 

 (K — C — ) ; apothecia moderate, more or less crowded, sessile, black, 

 slightly polished, plane, with a thin entire or flexuose margin ; 

 hypothecium thick, broiunish-black ; paraphyses conglutinate, rich- 

 yellow-brown, apices darker ; spores 8, colourless, oblong or ob- 

 tusely fusiformi-oblong, 1-septate. 



On mosses, rare. 1836. 



Stn :— Tayl. El Hib. 2. 123. (1836.) Mudd Man. 189. 



Geog. Distbib :— Europe. 



Bot. Pbov:— 5...7...11...15...19...29, 30. 



England : — Oswestry ! Shropshire. Rev. T. Salwey. Teesdale ! Rev. J. Harri- 

 man. 



Scotland : — Ben Lawers. Adm. Jones. 



Ibeland : — Near Belfast ! Mr. Templeton. near Bantry. Miss Hutchins. 

 North of Ireland. Adm. Jones. Lisburn. Dr. Dickie. 



Wales : — Twll Du, Cwm Idwal ! Cwm Tryfaen ! Cwm Bochlwyd ! Glyder 

 "Vach ! 



" Spores .003— .004 in. long by .001 in. broad." (Mudd.) Spores .013— 

 .025 mm. long, .005 mm. broad. 



235. L. anomaloides, Nyl. whitish, thin, granulose or evanescent ; 



