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ADDITIONS TO THE LICHEN FLORA OF 

 WESTMORELAND. 



JOSEPH A. MARTINDALE. 



I beg to put on record the occurrence of the following plants in 

 Westmoreland. Only two of them have been found previously in 

 England, so far as I know, so that they form substantially an addition 

 to the flora of Great Britain . 



1. Calicium roscidum Flk. D.L. 42. Nyl. Syn. 153. On oaks in 



Lowther Park. 



2. Lecidea pilularis Korb. Par. 136. Leight. Lich. Flora, 3rd ed. 



342. On mosses in Kentmere. This has previously been 

 gathered in Ireland by Mr. Larbalestier. Larb. Lich. Herb., 

 231, 270. 



3. Lecidea plumbina (Anzi) Nyl. Anzi, Comm. Critt. It. (1862), 



p. 158. Nyl. Flora, 1869, 296. On Coccocarpia plumbea, 

 growing on oaks and ashes in Lowther Park. This has been 

 once gathered before by the Rev. W. Johnson, near Keswick 

 (1881). 



4. Lecidea declinascens Nyl. in Flora, 1878, p. 243. On rocks, 



Red Screes. 



5. Lecidea rubescens Th. Fr., Lich. Scand., 631. On rocks and 



stones near Staveiey. 



6. Lecidea obturbans Nyl. n. sp. nondum descripta. On a rock 



near Winster. 



7. Lecidea acutula Nyl. n. sp. nondum descripta. On larch trees 



near Staveiey, and near Penrith. 



8. Schizoxylon corticola (Frs.) Nyl., Lich. Scand., 249. Leight., 



Lich. Flora, 3rd. ed., p. 390. On oaks in Lowther Park. 

 This has previously been gathered by the Rev. J. M. Crombie, 

 near Lyndhurst, in the New Forest. 



9. Platygrapha periclea (Ach. Meth., p. 156) Nyl. Scand., p. 256. 



On oaks in Lowther Park. 

 I have also recently gathered several plants for the first time 

 within the county, but as no general county list has ever been 

 published, and as I intend shortly to draw one up, it would, perhaps, 

 not serve any good purpose to mention them in this communication. 



NO TE — LEPID OPTERA . 



Heliothis peltigera. — In June (or July, I forget which) 1884, Mr. R. 

 Wilding of Liverpool beat a fine specimen of this species from an overhanging 

 ledge on the Wallasey sandhills ; and either the same day or a few days afterwards 

 picked up the wings of another specimen of the same, the body having been eaten 

 by a bird or spider. — John W. Ellis, Liverpool, November 30th, 1885. 



Feb. 1886. 



