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THE LICHEN-FLORA 



2. M. miserrimum, Nyl. thallus indicated by a pale spot or 

 obsolete ; apothecia minute, difformed, black, macular, 2-6-nodulose 

 (nodules convex, resembling the conceptacula of a Verrucaria, but 

 ■without any impressed epithecium), internally and basally whitish, 

 depressed between the nodules ; asci sphseroid or oblongo-sphseroid ; 

 spores 8, colourless, oblong, 3-5 septate (often variously and longitu- 

 dinally sparingly divided) ; paraphyses none ; thalamium colour- 

 less, laxly indistinctly cellulose ; conceptaculum nigricant, conspi- 

 cuously fusco-cellulose ; gelatina hymenea untinged with iodine, 

 but the protoplasm of the asci vinous-red. 



On trees in sub-alpine regions, frequent. 



Stn:— Nyl Enum. 145. (1858.) Crombie En. 106. 



Exs .— Mudd 231. 



Geog. Disteib : — France. 



Bot. Prov.— 2...5...7...10. 



England :— Hoggart's Wood ! Ingleby, Cleveland. Mr. Mudd. Harley Wood ! 

 Cirencester. Mr. Joshua, between Polegate and Westham, Sussex ! Mr. Boper. 

 Lyd Hole, Pontesford ! Shropshire ; Huglith ! near Church Stretton. 



Wales — EddertonWood ! Montgomeryshire. 



" Spores .015 mm. long, .005 mm. broad." (NyL) Spores .018 mm. long, 

 .008 mm. broad. 



3. M. ptelceodes, Nyl. pale-dirty, macular, more or less diffuse ; 

 apothecia black, minute, rotundate, somewhat convex ; verrucaroid, 

 simple, crowded ; spores 8, colourless, ovoid or ovoideo-ellipsoid, 3- 

 septate, generally with a single longitudinal septum between the 

 transverse ones. 



On trees, alder, rare. 1875. 



Stn :— Nyl. Lich. Scand. Appendix 291. (1861.) 

 Exs :— NyL Pyren. Orient. 78. 

 GrEOG. Distbib : — France, Pyrenees. 

 Bot. Pbov : — 5. 



England : — Cleve Hill ! Cheltenham. Mr. Joshua. 



" Spores .012—16 mm. long, .006—8 mm. broad." {Nyl.) Spores .016 mm. 

 long, .006 mm. broad. 



II. KIMULA.BIA, Nyl. 



Thallus thin, crustaceous. Apothecia black, rotundate, de- 

 pressed in the centre, dehiscing by a subradiate fissure. Para- 

 physes slender, often branched. Spores 8, colourless or fuscescent, 

 ellipsoid, simple. 



1. jffi. limborina, Nyl, cinereous, thin, rimulose or sub-areolate ; 

 apothecia black or fuscous-black, opake, rugulose, depressed, some- 

 what convex, rotundate or oblongo-rotundate, depressed in the 

 centre and fissured by a thin sub-radiate chink, internally cine- 

 rascent ; spores 8, colourless, at length fuscescent or fuscous, 

 ellipsoid, simple ; paraphyses slender, irregular and generally 

 branched; perithecium (peridium) black in upper part, below 

 (hypothecium) fusco-nigricant ; gelatina hymenea slightly-blue 

 with iodine and then fulvous-red. 



On calcareous mountain rocks, rare. 1865. 



Stn:— NyL in Flora 1868. p. 346. Crombie in Seem. jTourn. Bot. 7, 50 



