PROPOLIS. 875 
Name—Lecanora, a genus of lichens. 
Jedburgh (A. Jerdon). Oxford! (Baxter). 
B. SPORIDIA OBLONG. 
2. Propolis pyri. (B. and Br.) 
Gregarious or confluent, erumpent, orbicular; hyme- 
nium plane or concave, black, surrounded by a laciniate 
margin ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong or 
oblong-elliptic, with 1 or 2 large gutte, slightly tinted 
brown, 15—20 x 8u; paraphyses filiform, slender, adherent 
im a dark purple gelatine. 
Stictis Lecanora (Schum.) var. pyri—B. and Br., “Ann. 
Nat. Hist.,” No. 1624, t. 11, £7; “Grevillea,” v. p. 62. 
Exs.— Phil. “ Elv. Brit.,” No. 148. 
On bark of pear-trees. 
Disc about 4a line broad. The sporidia are smaller 
than in S. Lecanora, the paraphyses slenderer, and the 
hymenial gelatine is purple, not yellow. 
Name—Pyrus, the genus to which the pear belongs. 
Shrewsbury ! Sutton Coldfield, Warwick ! (Mr. W. B 
Grove). 
3. Propolis rhodoleuca. (Sommf.) 
At first immersed, then erumpent, ovate, plane, rosy- 
white, pruinose, yellow within, surrounded by a spurious 
margin; asci broadly clavate; sporidia 8, oblong or 
oblong-elliptic, often plane on one side, becoming 
l-septate, 17—20 x 7—10u; paraphyses filiform, slender. 
Stictis rhodoleuca—Sommf., “Lapp.,” p. 198; Fries, 
“Sys. Myco.” ; “Elench.,” ii. p. 26. 
On cones of Pinus sylvestris. 
Cups 1 to 2 lines long. Much resembling P. versi- 
color, from which it differs little except in colour. 
Name—pdéoy, a rose, Asuxde, white ; rose-white. 
In the late Mr. F. Currey’s herbarium, now at Kew ! 
Var. Strobilina. (Desm.) 
Solitary or gregarious, angular, nearly circular or 
oblong, plane, white within; hymenium milk-white, 
