320 PYREXOCAKPEI '< AKTHOPYREXIA 



paraphyses ; there is no specimen of it at the British Museum. 

 Nylander (I. c.) gives Sagedia cfnea in Anzi Lich. Min. rar. n. 395 as a 

 synonjTn, but that plant has been identified by him in MS. as 

 Verrucaria grisea. 



Hob. On the smooth bark of trees. — Distr. Common throughout 

 England, rare in Scotland and S.W. Ireland. — B. M. Torquay, Devon ; 

 Pease Cottage Gate, New Timber Wood, Haynard's Heath and St. 

 Leonard's Forest, Sussex; AVrittle, Essex; Cradley, Herefordshii-e ; 

 Savemake, Wilts ; Chedworth, Gloucestershire ; near Malvern, Wor- 

 cestershire; NessclifiF, Shropshire; Ayton, Ingleby and Hob Hole, 

 Cleveland, Yorkshire; Bettws-y-Coed' and Trefriw, Carnarvonshire; 

 Morrone, Braemar, Aberdeenshire; near Macroom and !Muckross, 

 Cork ; Croghan and Kenmare. Kerry. 



7. A. stigmatella A. L. Sm. (non Massal.). — Thallus greyish 

 or brownish, effuse, thin, smooth and shining. Peritheeia black, 

 small, \-ai'ying in size, often a mere point, semi-immersed and 

 hemispherical or more emergent and somewhat convex ; perithecial 

 wall dimidiate ; paraphyses usually indistinct ; asci, elongate- 

 elliptical ; spores colourless, elongate-oblong, usually tapering at 

 one or both ends, often becoming brownish, large, 1-septate, 

 0,027-40 mm. long, 0,007-010 mm. thick. — Lichen stkjmatellus 

 Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 1891 (lt^08) (non Ach.). Lejophlea stigmatella 

 S. F. Gray ZSat. Arr. i. p. 496 (1823). Verrucaria cinerea Hook, 

 in Sm. Eugl. Fl. p. l49 (1833) (non Pers. in Ust. Ann. vii. 

 p. 2S, t. 3, fig. 6a (1794) ) ; Tayl. in Mackay Fl. Hib. ii. p. 88 : 

 Leight. Angioc. Lich. p. 39, t. 17, fig. 2 it Lich. Fl. p. 433 ; 

 ed. 3, p. 464. F. antecellens Xyl. in Flora xlix. p. 86 (1866) ; 

 Carroll in Journ. Bot. v. p. 260 (1867); Cromb. Brit. Lich. 

 p. 119 ; Leiyht. Lich. Fl. p. 435 ; ed. 3, p. 465 tt in Grevillea 

 i. p. 60, t. 4, fig. 2. V. epidermidis var. cinerea Mudd Man. 

 p. 304 (1861) ; Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 119. 



Exsicc. Leight. n. 343 ; jNludd n. 295 (both specimens 

 imperfectly developed) ; Carroll Lich. Hib. n. 32. 



Easily recognized by the large 1-septate spores, and usually by the 

 mixture of larger and smaller peritheeia and spermogonia dotted over 

 the thaUus. 



Hab. On the bark of trees, chieHy holly. — Distr. Not uncommon 

 in S. England. Bare in N. England and Wales, common in S. and 

 W. Ireland. — B. M. AVithiel and St. Breock, Cornwall ; Ivy Bridge, 

 Devon ; Lyndhurst, New Forest, Hants ; Pease Pottage Gate, TUgate 

 and St. Leonard's Forest, Sussex ; Share, Surrey ; Leckhampton, 

 Gloucestershire ; Dolgelly, Merioneth ; Bettws-y-Coed, Carnarvon- 

 shire ; Ingleby, Newton and Kildale, Cleveland, Yorkshire ; Gleu- 

 bower, Glanmire, Crosshaven, Castle Bernard and Castlemartyr, 

 Cork ; Croghan, Tore Mt., Cromaglo^vn, Loch Inchiquin, Dinish, 

 Killarney, Old Dromore and Glencar, Kerry ; Lougheooter, Galway. 



8. A. analeptoides A. L. Sm. — Thallus whitish-grey, thin, 

 effuse. Peritheeia black, moderate in size, hemispherical, 



