268 PYRENOCARPEI [dERMATOCARPON 



S. F. Gray Xat. Arr. i. p. 501 ^ Hook. Fl. Scot. ii. p. 44 & in 

 Sm. Engl. Fl. v. p. 157; Tayl. in Mackay Fl. Hib. ii. p. 99; 

 Leight. Angioc. Lich. p. 12, t. 2, f. 2. E. miniatum var. lepto- 

 phyllum Wahlenb. Fl. Suec. p. 875 (1826) ; Mudd Man. p. 266 ; 

 Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 107; Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 410; ed. 3, 

 p. 442. 



Distinguished from the species by the small size of the thaUus. 



Hah. On moist rocks. — I>istr. Bare in subalpine or hilly regions, 

 in X. England, Wales, X. Scotland and S.W. Ireland. — B. M. Buxton, 

 Derbyshire ; Aberidu, Brecknockshire ; Bala Lake and Llyn Bodlyn, 

 Merioneth ; Cumberland ; Loch-na-gat, Ben Lawers, Perthshire ; 

 Loch Lomond, Dumbartonshu-e ; Killarney Woods, Kerry. 



Var. complicatum Th. Fr. I. c. ThaUus ascending, composed 

 of numerous densely csespitose lobes, imbricate and complicate, 

 ■with the under surface darker than in the species. — Dill. I. c. 

 f. 127a. Lichen mlniatus var. complicatus Lightf. Fl. Scot. ii. 

 p. 858 (1777) pro parte. L. compUcatus Swartz in Xov. Act. 

 Upsal. iv. p. 251 (1784). L. amphibius With. Arr. ed. 3, iv. 

 p. 66 (1796). L. miniatus Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 593 lower fig. (1799). 

 Endocarpon complicatum Ach. Meth. p. 128 (1803); S.F.Gray 

 Xat. Arr. i. p. 501 ; Hook. Fl. Scot. ii. p. 44 ; Grev. Fl. Edin. 

 p. 329. E. miniatum var. complicatum Wahlenb. Fl. Suec. p. 875 

 (1826); Tayl. in Mackay Fl. Hib. ii. p. 98; Hook, in Sm. Engl. 

 Fl. V. p. 156 ; Leight. Angioc. Lich. p. 11, t. 2, f. 1 & Lich. Fl. 

 p. 410 ; ed. 3, p. 442 ; Mudd Man. p. 265 ; Cromb. Lich. Brit, 

 p. 107. 



Exsicc. Leight. n. 167 ; Mudd n. 256 ; Larb. Lich. Hb. 

 n. 158. 



Hah. On damp rocks, exposed to spray or occasionally inundated. 

 — Distr. Somewhat frequent throughout the British Isles. — B. M. 

 L'Etacq, Jersey ; Petit-Bot Bay, Guernsey ; St. Minver and neaa- 

 Penzance, Cornwall ; Dartmoor Tors, Devon ; near Cirencester, St. 

 Vincent's Rocks and near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire ; Barmouth, 

 Merioneth; Puffin Island; Clereland, Yorkshire ; FaJcon Chnts, 

 Teesdale, Durham ; Craiglockhart near Edinburgh ; Bowling, Dum- 

 barton; Kinnoull HUl, Glen Lochay, Killin, Ben Lawers and 

 Kenmore, Perthshire ; I. of Lismore, Argyll ; Fort WUham and Inver- 

 moriston, Invemessshire ; Craig Guie, Braemar, Aberdeenshire ; 

 Connor Chfife, Dingle, Killamey, Kerry ; Glencorbot and Dawros 

 Eiver, Connemara, Galway. 



Form decipiens A. L. Sm. Lobes of the thaUus ascending, 

 smaller than in var. complicatum and more compact, more or less 

 involute and crowded in the centre, spreading at the periphery. — 

 Endocarpon miniatum var. decipiens Massal. Ric. Lich. p. 184 



(1852). 



Hob. On moist rocks. — Distr. Bare in N. England and N. Scot- 

 land. — B. M. Teesdale, Yorkshire ; south side of Loch Tay, Perth- 

 shire.- 



