OF GREAT BRITAIN. 487 



. §§' Spores colourless. 



117. V. intercedens, Nyl. cinerascent or cinereo-fuscescent, tar- 

 tareous, ' thin, contiguous, or rimulose ; apolhecia large, convexo- 

 conical, prominent, basally immersed, black ; epithecium large, 

 conspicuous, umbilicato-depressed ; " perithecium dimidiate ; para- 

 physes none ; spores 8, colourless, elliptical, murali-locular, cells 

 irregular, moderate ; g"elatina hymenea vinous-red -with iodine: 



On alpine schistose rocks, rai - e. 1864. 



Syn:— Nyl. Pyren. 33. (1858.) Scand. 276. Carroll in Seem. Journ, Bot, 3. 

 292. 



Fie. : — Hepp Sporen t. 51. f . 445. central spore. 



Exs :— ""Hepp 445." Am. 146. ......... .. ..' 



Geog. Distrib : — Sweden, Switzerland, Pyrenees, Germany. 



Bot. Prov:— 2...15. 



England :— Downs, Sussex. Mr. Larbalestier. 



Scotland : — Ben Lawers. Messrs. Jones & Carroll. (1864.) 



"Spores .024— 42 mm. long, .015—21 mm. broad." (T. M. Fr.) "Spores 

 .018-23 mm. long, .011 — 13 mm. broad." (Nyl.) Spores ,034 mm. long, 

 -.016—017 mm. broad. ' 



118. V. fusco-argillacea, (Anzi.) fusco-cinerascent or albido- 

 cinerascent, thin, effuse, minutely rimulose or verrucoso-subareolate, 

 -unequal, . at length -farinaceous ; apothecia black, moderate, 

 numerous and crowded, sessile, innate at the base, hemispherical ; 

 perithecium dimidiate, thickish, black, inner tunic very thin, black ; 

 epithecium poriform, depressed or umbilicate ; paraphyses none ; 

 spores 8, colourless, rotundato ellipsoid, ■ murali-locular, rather 

 small; gelatina hymenea reddish with iodine. 



Oh calcareous rocks, rare. 1870. 



Syn :— Polymastia, Anzi Symbola 26. (1864.) 

 Exs : — Anzi Langob. 368. 

 Geog. Distrib :— Italy, Scandinavia. 

 Bot. PR)V:-5...15...26. 



■ England :— Hyde, Gloucestershire. Mr. W. Joshua. 



- Scotland:— Craig. Tulloch, ! and at base of Ben-y-gloe, Blair Athole. Eev, 

 J. M. Orombie. (187U.) 



Ireland : — Doughruagh Mountain ! co. Galway. Mr. Larbalestier. 



"Spores .018— 28mm. long, .011— 16mm. broad." (T. M. Fr.) Spores .026 

 —.029 mm. long, .015— .018 mm. broad. 



119. V. Carrollii, (Mudd.) greyish-white or cream-colour, thin, 

 determinate, membranaceo-cartilaginous, smooth, contiguous, or 

 slightly rimulose ; apothecia minute, innate in elevated thalline 

 protuberances, solitary, hemispherico-subdepressed ; ostiolum some- 

 what rugulose, rounded or slightly depressed ; epithecium obsolete ; 

 perithecium dimidiate, brownish-black, inner tunic pale ; paraphyses 

 distinct, capillary, flexuose ; spores. 6-8, pale-yellow, elliptico-ob- 

 long or obovate, irregularly murali-locular, very variable in size. 



On young ash trees, and sandstone, very rare. 1861.. 



Stn -—Sphceromphale, Mudd Man. 283 (1861.) 



■ Fig :— Mudd Man. t. 5, i. 115. 

 Geog. Distkib : — Europe. 



Bot. Prov:— 19.. .24.. .28. T . .,„,,. 



Ireland :— RostellaD, Cork Harbour ; and Castleconnel, Limenck ; baUagti- 

 beama Gap, Kerry; Dinis, Killarney, Mr. Carroll.. (1S61.) Armagh Demesne. 

 Adm Jones. ' ' ,, ,, . 



" Spores .0035 to .007 in. long, by .0015 to .003 in broad. ' (Mudd,)\ - 



