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THE LICHEN-FLORA 



upwards ; paraphyses indistinct, apices colourless ; spores 8, 

 colourless, slenderly acicvlar ; gelatina hymenea I vinous-red. 

 On maritime rocks, very rare. 1873. 



Stn :— NyL in Flora 1874. p. 10. 

 Bot. Pbov :— 31. 



Channel Islands : — On a single block of stone near Fort Essex, Alderney. 

 Mr. Larbalestier. (1873.) 



348. L. pulvinata, (Tayl.) pale-greenish-brown or cream-coloured, 

 thickish, pulvinate, granuhso-squamulose, squamules very minute, 

 congregate and pulvinate ; apothecia black, small, concave or plane, 

 margin thick, obtuse, eventually convex and immarginate ; hypo- 

 thecium thick, dark-brownish-black ; spores 8, colourless, acicular 

 or sub-clavate, curved, multiseptate ; paraphyses conglutinate. 



On mosses in alpine places, rare. 1836. 



Stn :— Tayl. FL Hib. 2. 123. (1836.) 



Geog. Distbib :— Europe. 



Bot. Pbov:— 7...19...26. 



England : — Falcon Cliff, Teesdale. Rev. T. Sahccii. 



Ibeland : — Mangerton ; Dereenafinchy Mountain, co. Kerry. Dr Taylor. 

 (1836.) Brandon Mountain. Dr. Moore, west slope of Doughruagh Mountain ! 

 Mr. Larbalestier. 



Wales : — Drws Ardudwy. Bev. T. Salwey. Llyn-y-Cae. Mr. Holmes. Bar- 

 mouth ! Aran Mowddwy ! 



349. L. oribata, Nyl. greyish-brown, thinly sub-granuloso- 

 verruculose, spores 3-5-septate. 



On the ground, in alpine regions, rare. 1873. 



Stn :— NyL in Flora 1874. p. 16. 

 Scotland : — Ben Lawers. Dr. Stirton. (1873.) 



" Subspecies sit subincottvptm. Spores .023—40 mm. long, .003 — 4 mm. 

 broad." (Nyl.) 



350. L. herbarum, (Hepp) ecrustaceous ; apothecia rufescent, 

 moderate, plane, margined, or somewhat plane and margin evanes* 

 cent; hypothecium luteo-rufescent or lutescent, darker under the 

 hymenium ; paraphyses slender, apices somewhat clavate, colour- 

 less ; spores 8, colourless, bacilliform, straight or sometimes fiexuose, 

 5-7 -septate. 



On the ground amongst rocks, rare. 1873. 



Stn :— Stizb. Nadelf. p. 46. (1863.) NyL Lapp. Or. 155. 

 Fig :— Stizb. L c t. 2. f. 20. 

 Exs .— Am. 290. 

 Bot. Pbov :— 81. 



Channel Islands ; — Sark. Mr. La/rbdUslier. (1873.) 



" Gelatina hymenea I blue then dirty-vinous-red. Spores .038 — 48 mm. long, 

 .0020— .0025 mm. broad." (Nyl.) Spores .039 mm. long, .0025 mm. broad. 



/. Spores muraliloadar. 

 * Hypothecium dark. 



351. L. geographiea, (L.) citrine or bright-yellow, tartareous, 

 continuous, areolato-rimulose, determinate, nigro-limitate, areolce 

 plane or convex and tumid; apothecia black, plane, small, scattered 

 or confluent, innate between or on the areola ; hypothecium black ; 

 spores 8, nigrescenti-fuscous, oblong, irregularly muralilocular. 



