*3" THE LICHEN-FLORA 



BOT. PBOV :— 31. 



Channel Islands :— Jerbourg! Guernsey. Rev. T. Salwey. (1847.) La Coupe 

 and Boulay Bay ! Jersey. Mr. Larbaiestier. Sark. Mrs. Callings. 



XI. GLYPHIS, Ach. 



Thallus often hypophlaeodal or obsolete, bearing scattered, white, 

 rotundato-irregular, piano-depressed, large verrucae. Apothecia 

 numerous, immersed in the verrncse, black, elongato-flexuose and 

 intricate, impressed or canaliculate. Spores colourless or fuscous, 

 containing 4-10 transverse, ellipsoid-lenticular cells. 



1. G. labyrinthica, Ach. fuscescenti-subolivaceous ; verruca 

 white, plano-convex, pulverulent, subreticulate with the sub-anas- 

 tomosing black canaliculate rimae of the elongated apothecia ; spores 

 8, colourless, ultimately slightly fuscescent, lineari-oblong, rounded 

 at the extremities, 4-6 celled ; paraphyses crowded, indistinct ; 

 gelatina hymenea untinged with iodine. 



On trees, very rare. 



Syn:— Ach. Syn. 107. (1817.) 



Fig :— Linn. Trans. 12. t. 2. f. 1. Fee Ess. Crypt, t. 16. f. 3. Fee Mem. Lick 

 t. 1. f. 2. Linn. Trans. 27. t. 36. f. 68. 



■Ess : — Spruce Lich. Amaz. 405. 



Geog. Distbib : — Guyana, Amazons, Ceylon. 



.Bot. Pbov :— 13. 



Ibeland :— Killarney. Sir TTios. Gage, in Herb. Brit. Mas. teste Sen. J. M. 

 Crombie. 



Spores .021 mm. long, .0065 mm. broad. 



XII. MELASPILEA, Nyl. 



Thallus very thin or obsolete, Apothecia arthonoid, black, 

 superficial. Paraphyses distinct. Spores 8, generally colourless, 

 1-septate. Spermatia straight. Gelatina hymenea only yellow 

 with iodine. 



1. M. amota, Nyl. whitish, macular, ^determinate ; apothecia 

 black, innate, rotundate or rotundato-difformed, proper margin thin, 

 unequal ; hypothecium slightly darkened ; spores 4-8, colourless, 

 rotundo-oblovg, 1-septate, constricted. 



On old trees, usually on oak, rare. 1866. 



Syn :— NyL in Flora 1867. p. 178. Crombie En. 105. 

 Geog. Distbtb :— Europe. 

 Bot. Pbov :— 19. 



Ireland : — Turk Mountain ! Killarney ! Mr. Carroll. 

 " Spores .016—22 mm. long, .007— .010 mm. broad." (Nyl.) Spores .017 

 mm. long, .008 mm broad. 



2. M. ochrothalamia, Nyl. very thin, dirty^virescent, indeter- 

 minate ; apothecia black or fuscous, opake, patellulate, minute, 

 adnate, plane, obsoletely margined, internally luteoochraceous ; 

 spores Qjfusco-nigrescent, lineari-oblong, 1-septate, constricted. 



On willow, rare. 1869. 



Syn :— NyL in Flora 1865. p. 355. Crombie En. 106. 

 Geog. ~Oistbd3 : — France. 

 Bot. Pbov :— 19. 



