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Ireland :— Near Kilkee ! co. Clare. Mr. Carroll. (1865.) 

 Wales :— Near Dolgelley ! 



forma corticola, Zw. virescent or cinereo-virescent, minutely fur- 

 furaceo-granulate, thin, effuse; apothecia pale-rufous or fuscous, 

 blackish, small, sessile. 



On Myrica Gale, rare. 1877. 



Exs :— Zw. 417. Nyl. Paris. 136. Lojka Transylv. 2208. 



Bot. Prov :— 7. 



Wales :— Llyn Gwernan! (1877.) 



H. Spores multiseptate. 



321. L. pachycarpa, (Duf.) creamy-yellow, sub-tartareous, 

 thickish, effuse, pulverulento-furfuraceous ; apothecia large, scattered, 

 adnate, reddish-brown, plane or tumid, margin paler, obtuse ; 

 hypoihecium pale-yellowish-brown ; spores 1 , very large, colourless, 

 elongato-oblong or cylindrical, 10-septate. 



On trees, rare. 1806. 



Syn :— Dufour in Fries L. Eur. 259. (1831.) Nyl. Prod. 118. Mudd Man. 189. 



Fig :— E. Bot. 1683. Hepp Sporen t. 27. f. 234. 



Exs :— Zw. 80. 



Geog. Distrtb : — Switzerland, Bavaria, France. 



Bot. Prov:— 1, 2.. .5.. .7, 8.. .19. 



England: — New Forest! Mr. Lyell. (1806.) Sussex. Mr. Turner. Tilgate 

 Forest and St. Leonard's Forest ! Sussex. Mr. Borrer. Charnwood Forest. Rev. 

 A. Bloxam. Stoke Wood, Devon. Mr. Parfitt. Midland Counties. Mr. Purton. 

 near Hastings. Rev. J. M. Crombie. Old Woods in Sussex. Mr. Sowerby. 



Ireland : — Cromaglawn,, Killarney ! Dr. Moore. Castlebernard co. Cork ; 

 Dinis, Killarney. Mr. Carroll. 



Wales : — Cwm Bychas ! Rev. T. Salwey. 



" Spores .018— .025 in. long by .007 in. broad." (Mudd.) " Spores .070—140 . 

 mm. long, .025 — 35 mm. broad. Spermatia straight .003 — .0035 mm. long, .001 

 mm. broad, fixed on shortish simple sterigmata." (Nyl.) Hypothecium very 

 thin, pale-yellowish-brown, resting on a white thickish medullary stratum, the 

 whole being enclosed in a thicker browner horny excipulum. Spore immense 

 .160 mm. long, .036 mm. broad. 



322. L. homalotropa, Nyl. white, glabrous, very thin or albo" 

 macular, sub-determinate ; apothecia black, moderate, plane, mar- 

 gined ; hypothecium thin, niyricant ; epithecium sub-rugose, dusky ; 

 spores 8, colourless, cylindrical, closely multiseptate-; paraphyses 

 slender, anastomosing ; gelatina hymenea untinged with iodine. 



On old ash trees in sub-alpine regions, rare. 1867. 



Stn:— Nyl. in Flora 1867. p. 329. Crombie En. 90. 



Geog. Distrib : — Europe. 



Bot. Prov :— 19. 



Ireland : — Near Derrycunihy, and Eagle's Nest, and between Killarney 

 and Kenmare, (1867.) ; and on Mc Carthy Island in upper lake of Killarney. 

 Mr. Carroll. 



Near to L. urceolata, Ach. Doubtful if not both referable to Melaspilea. 

 " Spores .130— .140 mm. long, .0045— .0050 mm. broad." (Nyl.) 



323. L. urceolata, Ach. glaucous-white or sub-ciner ascent, smooth, 

 rugoso-rimose, cartilaginous, nigro-limitate ; apothecia black, urceo- 

 late, sessile, prominent, externally albo-pruinose, margin thick, ele- 

 vated ; hypothecium horny, livid ; spores colourless, elongato- 

 cylindrical, maggot-like, 13-septate, constricted at the septa, arcuate. 



On trees, rare. 



