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Var. anerythrea, Nyl. ardellce fuscous, prominent, naked, without 

 any vermilion powder. 



England :— Plymouth. Mr. Holmes, New Forest. Bev. J, M. Crombie. Hail- 

 sham, Eastbourne. Mr. Roper. Canterbury, Shoreham, Kent. Mr. Holmes. 



f. detrita, T. <fc B. ardellae depressed, lurid, dark-purplish, naked 

 more or less stellate. Leight. I.e. 60. 



Exs :— Schasr. 649. Anzi Venet. 89. Am. 363. Spruce Amaz. 347. 

 England :— Sussex ! Mr. Borrer. 

 Wales :-Gwydir Woods ! Bettws-y-coed. 



f. astroidea, Leight. ardellse rather large, in depressed, naked, 

 radiate or stellate clusters, sub-immersed or very slightly raised, 

 dark-reddish-black or full-brown-black. Leight. 1. c. 60. 



Exs :— Mudd 234. 



England :— Ardingley, Miohelgrove and Charlton Forest, Sussex ! Mr. 

 Borrer. Airyholme ! Yorkshire. Mr. Mudd. Kelvedon, Essex. Mr. Tarenne. 

 Oakley Park, Cirencester. Mr. Joshua. 



Ireland :— Castlebernard ! O'Sullivan's Cascade ! Killarney. Mr. Carroll. 



forma euspidans, Nyl. distinguished from the type by the 

 ardellse being scarcely erythrinose, slenderer, the apices of the 

 divisions acuminate. 



On holly, rare. 1876. 



Syn :— Nyl. in Flora 1876. p. 310. 



Exs :— Wright's Cuba 123. a. and b. 



Ireland : — Doughruagh Mountain. Mr. Larbalestier. (1876,) 



Spores .016 — 19 mm. long, .006 — 7 mm. broad. 



Var. opegraphina, Ach. ardellce depressed, linear, simple or 

 crowded, substellato-difformed, rough ; spores 3-4-septate. 

 On trees. 



Syn :— Ach. Syn. 6. (18 L7.) Crombie En. 103. Grevillea 1. 59. 



Fig : —Grevillea 1. c. t. 4. f. 7. 



Geog. Distrib :— Sweden. 



Bot. Prov:— 7.. .19. 



Ikeland :— Glenbower Wood ! co. Cork. Mr. Carroll. 



Wales : — Gwydir Woods ! Bettws-y-coed. 



Var. epipasloides, Nyl. ardellce minute, irregularly fiexuose, 

 slender, oblong, or punctiform ; spores 3-4-septate. 

 On ivy, rare. 1869. 



Syn :— Nyl. Scand. 259. (1861.) Crombie En. 103. Grevillea 1. 59. 

 Fig :— Grevillea 1. c. 1. t. 4. f. 8. 

 Geog. Distrib .-—France. 

 Bot. Prov :— 19. ..26.. .31. 



Ireland : — Killarney. Mr. Hardy. Eagle's Nest ! Glenbower Wood ! Kil- 

 leagh, co. Cork. Mr. Carroll. Kylemore Wood ! Connemara. Mr. Larbalestier. 

 Channel Islands : — Noirmont Warren, Jersey ! Mr. Larbalestier. 



25. A. insinuata, Strtn. whitish or pale, subsquamulose, very 

 thin ; ardellce fuscous or fuscous-black, adnate, round or oblong or 

 somewhat irregular, at first veiled, generally with a somewhat 

 squamulose thalline margin, internally pale ; spores 4-8, colourless, 

 sometimes slightly fuscescent, oblong, crenulate at the margin, 

 spuriously 4-septate or rather 5-celled, the cells equal in size ; 

 gelatina hymenea I bright-blue, 



Qn trees. }875, 



