156 LECANO-LECIDEEI [bACIDIA 



14. B. scopulicola A. L. Sm. — Thallus eflfuse, granular- 

 ven-ucose, unequal, greyish- or brownish-green. Apothecia small, 

 at first plane and obtusely margined, then convex and immar- 

 ginate, brownish-flesh-coloured ; paraphyses slender ; epithecium 

 colourless ; hypothecium colourless (the subhymenial layer tawny- 

 brownish) ; spores acicular, thinly or obsoletely 3-5-septate, 

 0,032—44 mm. long, 0,002 mm. thick ; hymenial gelatine bluish 

 then tawny-wine-red with iodine. — Lecidea scopulicola Nyl. in 

 Flora Ivii. p. 312 (1874) ; Cromb. in Grevillea iii. p. 23 ; Leight. 

 Lich. Fl. ed. 3, p. 368. 



Distinguished from the preceding species by the more developed 

 thaUus and longer spores. 



Hab. On maritime rooks in S. England. — B. M. Eosemodris Cliff, 

 Penzance, ComwaU (the only locality). 



15. B. inundata Koerb. Syst. Lich. Germ. p. 187 (1855). — 

 ThaUus effuse, granulose or rimose-areolate, greenish (K — , 

 CaCl — ). Apothecia minute, subinnate-sessUe, at first concave and 

 thinly margined, at length convex and immarginate, pale-brown, 

 leaden-coloured, dark-red or blackish ; paraphyses coherent, colour- 

 less at the apices; hypothecium pale ; spores straight or curved, 

 elongate, attenuate at the apices, 3-7-septate, 0,034^0 mm. 

 long, 0,0015-25 mm. thick ; hymenial gelatine bluish then wine- 

 red or violet with iodine. — B. luteola var. y inundata Mudd Man. 

 p. 183 (1861). Biatora inundata Fr. in Vet. Acad. Hand). 

 1822, p. 270. Lecidea inundata Nyl. in Flora Iviii. p. 106 

 (1875) ; Cromb. in Grevillea xxii. p. 58. L. arceutina Nyl. 

 f. inundata Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 73 (1870). L. effusa var. 

 inundata Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 344 (1871) ; ed. 3, p. 371. 



Exdcc. Mudd n. 149. 



The thaUus, occasionaUy Uttle developed, varies somewhat in 

 thickness, and when dry is often tawny-greenish. It is usuaUy weU 

 fertUe ; the apothecia are very variable in colour in different 

 specimens ; the spores are often curved to an S-shape. The sper- 

 mogones are frequent with cm-ved spermatia, 0,0025-30 mm. long. 

 0,0006 mm. thick. 



Hah. On rocks and boulders, at times inundated, in maritime and 

 upland tracts, occasionaUy on moist wood. — Distr. Seen only from a 

 few locahties in Great Britain and Ireland ; no doubt often over- 

 looked. — B. M. Malpas, near Truro, and Mt. Edgecumbe, ComwaU ; 

 Fishguard Harbour, Pembrokeshire ; near Ayton and Airyhokne 

 Wood, Cleveland, Yorkshire ; Teesdale, Durham ; near BaUachuUsh, 

 ArgyU ; Glen Lochay, KlUin, Perthshire ; Glen CaUater, Braemar, 

 Aberdeenshire ; Lettermore, Connemara, Galway. 



Subsp. allecta A. L. Sm. — Apothecia white-flesh-coloured ; 

 spores acicular, thin, 0,056-70 mm. long, 0,001 mm. thick; 

 otherwise as in the type. — Lecidea inundata subsp. allecta Nyl. 

 in Flora Ix. p. 567 (1877); Cromb. in Journ. Bot. xx. p. 275 

 (1882) & in GrevUlea xxii. p. 58. Specimen not seen. 



