*66 THE LICfiEN-FLOfiA 



depressed pore ; paraphyses indistinct ; spores 8-, fuscous, oblong, 

 1 -septate, constricted ; gelatina hymenea brownish with iodine. 

 On trees, holly, beech, birch, rare. 1864. 



Stn :— Flot. in Zw. Exs. Nyl. Scand. 281. Carroll in Seem. Journ. Bot. vol. 

 3. 293. V. micvla, Flot. 



Fig :— Hepp Sporen t. 13. f. 108. 



Exs :-Zw. 37. 217. 110. And Ital. S. 381. Hepp 108. 



Geog. Distbib : — Germany, Italy, Switzerland, France, Lapland, Amazons. 



Bot. Pkov :— 2...5...7.. 19...26. 



England : — New Forest, Hants. Rev. J. M. Crombie. Sapperton, Gloucester- 

 shire. Mr. Joshua. 



Ireland : — Glengariff, Cork ; Glencar ; Loch Inehiqnin ! Kerry ; Dinis, 

 Killarney ; Glenbower Wood. Killeagh ; Eagle's Nest. Mr. Carroll. (1864.) 

 Ballinahinch ! Kylemore ! co. Galway. Mr. Larbalestier. 



Wales ■ Chirk Castle Park ! 



" Spores .015—25 mm. long, .007—9 mm. broad." (Nyl.) Spores .020— .021 

 mm. long, .0065 mm. broad. 



Var. megaspora, Nyl. spores double the size of those of the type ; 

 paraphyses branched. 



On trees, beech, holly, rare. 1868. 



Stn :— Nyl. in Flora 1868. p. 348. Crombie En. 121. 



Geog. Distbib :— France. 



Bot. Pbov :— 2. .7. 



England : — Near Lyndhurst ! New Forest, Hants. Rev. J. M. Crombie. 

 (1868.) 



Wales : — Trefriw ! 



" Spores .023—36 mm. long, .009—013 mm. broad." (Nyl.) Spores .035— 

 .038 mm, long, .010 mm. broad. 



55. V. punctiformis, Ach. dark-olive or brown, very thin, effuse ; 

 apothecia black and shining, minute, innato-sessile, hemispherico- 

 conoid, spreading at the base; perithecium dimidiate, incurved; 

 epitheoium a rather large impressed pore ; paraphyses none ; spores 

 8, colourless, lineari-oblong, 1-septate, very minute. 



On trees, oak, ash, hazel, alder, not -common. 1812. 



Syn :— Ach. Prodr. 18. (1798.) Leight. Ang. Lich. 41. Mudd Man. 305. 



Fig :— E. Bot. 2415. Leight. Ang. Lich. t. 17. f. 5. 



Exs :— Mudd 296. Leight. 344. 



Geog. Distbtb :— Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, France. 



Bot. Pbov :— 1, 2...S...7 . 10, 11. ..19.. .21. 



England : -Sussex ! Mr. Borrer. (1812.) Cliffrigg ! Hoggarts Wood ! Ingleby, 

 Cleveland. Mr. Mudd. Exeter. Mr. Parfitt. Eastbourne. Mr. Roper. North- 

 umberland and Durham. Mr. Winch. Meole! near Shrewsbury: Hay Park! 

 Herefordshire. 



Ibeland :— White Point ! near Queenstown ; Cromaglown and Crogham, 

 Killarney. Mr. Carroll. Armagh ; Glengariff. Adm. Jones. 



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



Spores .013— .015 mm. long, .004— .005 mm. broad. 



forma tremulce, Ach. albo-cinerascent, unequal, slightly rimu- 

 lose; apothecia most minute, much crowded, sub-confluent, 

 scarcely protuberant and surrounded at the base with the thallus. 

 On poplar, rare. 



Stn :— Ach. L. U. 277. (1810.) 



Geog. Distbib :— Sweden, France, Spain, Switzerland, N. America. 



Bot. Pbov :— 19. 



Ibkland :— Old Dromore, Kerry. Adm. Jones. 



forma elongatula, Nyl. like V. punctiformis, or atomaria, Ach. 

 but with longer clavato-fusiform, 1-septate, spores ; apothecia most 

 mmute ; perithecium colourless in the lower part, paraphyses none. 



