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the ardeUse aie somewhat innate, as it were rubbed down, it is 

 A. astroidea yax. simulans IJeight. (Lich. Fl. ed. 3, p. 420). 



Hah. On smooth bark of trees. — Distr. General and common 

 throughout the British Isles. — B. M. Shsunklin, I. of Wight; near 

 Lyndhnrst, New Forest, Hants ; Ullacombe, near Bovey Traeey, 

 Devon ; St. Leonard's Forest, Sussex ; Braydon Forest, ^Yilts ; Hoe 

 Street, Walthamstow, Hockley Woods and Ulting, Essex; near 

 Worcester and Malvern, Worcestershire ; Harboro' Magna, Warwick- 

 shire ; near Barmouth, Merioneth ; near Shrewsbury, near Wellington 

 and near Acton Scott, Shropshire ; Trefriw, Carnarvonshire ; Airy- 

 holme Wood, Cleveland, Yorkshire ; Teesdale, Durham ; by the Falls 

 of the Clyde, Lajiarkshire ; near Stirling ; Ben Lawers aaid Finlarig, 

 Killin, Perthshire ; Appin, Argyll ; Morrone, Braemar, Aberdeenshire ; 

 Askew Wood and Croraaglown, Killarney, Kerry ; between Bandon 

 and Innishannon, Cork ; near Dublin ; Maam Turk Mts. and Delphi, 

 Connemara, Galway. 



Var. epipastoides A. L. Sm. — ThaUus whitish. Apothecia 

 small, very slender, elongate, sparingly irregular ; spores rather 

 smaller than in the species. — A. astroidea var. epipastoides Nyl. 

 lich. Scand. p. 259 (1861) ; Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 103. 



The apothecia are usually minutely lirellseform, though sometimes 

 somewhat punctiform and similar to flie following species. 



Hab. On smooth bark of trees. — -Distr. Rare in the Channel 

 Islands, S. England and S. Ireland. — B. M. Noirmont, Jersey ; Usham 

 Walk, Torquay, Devon ; Eagle's Xest and Killamey, Kerry. 



19. A. punctiformis Ach. Lich. Univ. p. 141 (1810) pro parte 

 «t Syn. p. 4 (1814). — Thallus thin, indeterminate, whitish or 

 copper-coloured. Apothecia dark-brown, plane or slightly convex, 

 scattered, subinnate, roundish or oblong, internally pale ; spores 

 colourless, linear-clavate, or obovate, obtuse, 3— 4-septate, the cells 

 equal in size, 0,016-24 mm. long, 0005-8 mm. thick ; hymenial 

 gelatine blue then dark, the asci wine-red, with iodine. — Leight. 

 in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, xiii. p. 438, t. 7, f. 31 (1854), 

 incl. f. galactina Leight. I. c. (non Ach.) & Lich. Fl. p. 395 ; ed. .3, 

 p. 419 ; Mudd Man. p. 247 pro parte ; Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 104. 

 A. epijiasta var. /3 viicroscopica Leight. in Ann. Mag. I^at. Hist, 

 ser. 2, xiii. p. 436, t. 7, f . 30 (1854) pro parte. Opegraplia epipasta 

 Hook, in Sm. Engl. Fl. v. p. 144 pro parte (non Ach.) ; Engl. Bot. 

 t. 1828?; Tayl. in Mackay Fl. Hib. ii. p. 105. Eysterina 

 epipasta S. F. Gray Nat. Ait. i. p. 506 (1821)? 



Closely allied to A. radiata, differing chiefly in the less deter- 

 minate thallus and the smaller usually punctiform apothecia. 



Hah. On smooth bark of trees. — Distr. Somewhat rare in S. 

 England and W. Ireland. — B. M. Xew Forest, Hants ; near Kylemore 

 and Doughruagh Mt., Connemara, Galway. 



Yar. melantera Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 396 (1871). — Thallus 

 somewhat darker-coloured than in the species. Apothecia rather 

 elongate, slender, spores as in the species. — Leight. Lich. Fl. 



