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and colour of the apothecia from V. chlorotica, (Ach.) which is associated on 

 the same rock, and which has also smaller 3-septate fusiform spores. Spores 

 ,046 mm. long, .008 mm. broad. No spermogonia detected. 



107. V. insiliens, Larbal. dirty-pale-whity-brovm, tartareous, 

 thievish, subareolato-diffract, areolae plane, subfurfuraceous, 

 (K — C— ) ; apothecia large, imbedded in rather large, hemispherical 

 thalline tubercles, which either entirely or partially cover the black 

 papillate ostiolum ; epithecium a minute pore ; perithelium dimi- 

 diate, nigro-fuscous ; inner tunic pale-brown ; paraphyses slender, 

 distinct ; spores 8, colourless, broadly fusiform, obtuse at the apices, 

 5-7 -septate ; gelatina hymenea I colourless. 



Damp recesses of caves, very rare. 1877. 



Stn :— Nyl. in Flora 1877. p. 566. 

 Bot. ProV :— 26. 



"Ireland :— Twelve Pins ! Gal way. Mr. Larbalestier. (1877.) 

 "Spores .050 — 67 mm. long, .011 — 14 mm. broad. Gonidia chroolepoid." 

 (Nyl.) Spores .057 mm. long, .011 mm. broad. 



** Perithecium entire. 



108. V. leptospora, Nyl. fuscescent, very thin or obsolete ; 

 perithecium entire, black ; spores 8, colourless, fusiform, elongate, 

 7-septate. 



On holly, very rare. 1864. 



Stn :— Nyl. in Flora 1864. p. 487. Crombie Ed. 117. 



Geog. Disteib : — Portugal. 



Bot. Prov:— 19. 



Ireland- :— Dinis Island, Killarney. Mr. Carroll. (1864.) 



" Spores .0045—55 mm. long, .003— .004 mm. broad." {Nyl.) 



109. V. chlorococca, Leight. green, thickish, granulate, somewhat 

 areolato-diffract ; apothecia black, innate, minute ; ostiolum black, 

 convex or depressed; epithecium poriform; perithecium entire, 

 black ; paraphyses none ; asci short, rotundate ; spores 8, colourless, 

 broadly cylindrico-fusiform, obtuse at the apices, 7-septate. 



On ash, rare. 1878. 



Bot. Prov :— 3. 



England : — Near Stokenchurch ! highest point of Chiltern Hills, Bucking- 

 hamshire. Mr. Larbalestier. 

 Spores .031 — .034 mm. long, .009 mm. broad. 



G. Spores murali-locvlar. 



* Perithecium dimidiate. 



§ Spores fuscous. 



110. V. umbrina, Whlnb. fuscescent or fuscous-black, thin, 

 opake, smoothish or granuloso-unequal, rimulose or sub-areolato- 

 rimulose, diffuse ; apothecia innate in prominent mastoid thalline 

 tubercles ; perithecium dimidiate, black ; inner tunic pale-brown ; 

 paraphyses none ; spores 2, dull-green or fuscous, lineari-oblong, 

 rounded at each extremity, murali-locular, large. 



On rocks in rivers and sub-alpine lakes, not common. 



