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THE UCHEN-FLORA 



ADDITIONS AND COKEECTIONS. 



Pycmoihelia apoda, Nyl. white or whitish, thin, slightly granu- 

 loso-crustaceons, everywhere sparingly producing small erect 

 abortive, ellipsoideo-vesiculose or subgranuliform podetia ; apoth- 

 ecia enti) ely sessile on the thallus, ferrugineo-rufons or rufo-och- 

 racemis, opake, plane, immarginate or somewhat convex ; spores 

 fusiformi-oblong ; paraphyses moderate ; epithecium rufo-fus- 

 cescent. 



On the earth, rare. 1878. 



Sto :— Xyl. in Flora 187S, p. 241. 



Geog. Distbib : — France. 



Bot. Peov:— 26. 



Ireland : — Kylemore. Mr. Larbalastier. 



"Spores .057 — .010 mm. long, .004 mm. broad. Thecae I bine then lutes- 

 cent, apices obscurate. Probably a subspecies of P. papillaria, but the 

 apothecia are sessile on the basal thallus, and often aggregate. Thallus K 

 yellow. Spermogonia commonly inclosed in the hymenium without any 

 distinct conceptacle; spermatia arcuate .008 — .012 mm. long, .0005 mm. 

 broad." (Nyl.) 



Pannaria melantera, Stirt. black, effuse, deeply and widely 

 diffract or rather squamose, squamae thickish, minutely papillose, 

 nigro-carulescent beneath ; apothecia black, small, sessile, plane, 

 or somewhat convex, margin black and shining ; paraphyses 

 thickish, articulate, apices clavate cserulescent ; hypothecium 

 fuscescent ; spores 8, colourless, oblong, 1-3 septate or simple. 



On micaceo-schistose rocks, rare. 1878. 



Stn :— Stirton in Scott. Xat. Jan. 1879, p. 16. 

 Bot. Prov : — 15. 



Scotland :— Ben Lawers. Dr. Stirton. (1878.) 



Similar to P. dolichotera, Nyl., but with longer spores, .03 — .045 mm. long, 

 .0045 — .005 mm. broad. Gelatina hymenea I cserulescent, thecae fulvescent. 



Lecidea pulchella, (Schrad). sulphureo-citrine or bright vires- 

 centi-yellow, orbicular, rotundato-lobate in the circumference, 

 gyroso- or bullato-plicate, thick, smoothish ; hypothallus spongiose 

 black ; apothecia black, naked, arising from the hypothallus 

 between the folds of the thallus, single or clustered, subimmerso- 

 appressed, plane, at length convex, the obtuse margin obliter- 

 ated, internally black; excipulum black, hypothecium dark-fus- 

 cous-black ; paraphyses cohserent, yellowish-fuscescent, apices 

 fuscous ; spores 8, fuscous, ellipsoid or oblong, broadly-rounded 

 at the ends, constricted in the middle, 1-septale, epispore 

 moderate. 



