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all the following species. Apothecia constantly lateral .” 
Fries. 
In several places on the Sands of Barrie, and on heaths 
about the head of Canlochen. 
S. corallinum , Schreb. 
l< Podetia lax, slightly compressed, smooth, very much 
branched, scales fibrillose, digitated-branchy, cinereous-ca3- 
sius, apothecia scattered or clustered, subglobose. 
“ Horizontal thallus none. Podetia clustered into a dense 
tuft, united at the base , and sticking like a Gyrophora to the 
rock. Scales splitting into coral-like branches, which make 
this species very like Sphaerophoron coralloides.” 
Churchill Babington, Esq., who has kindly translated for 
me the characters of the various species of this genus from 
Fries, remarks that this is the S. paschale of E. Bot. 
Sidlaw Hills frequent. Old wall Balgay. Clova and 
Canlochen. 
S. paschale, L. 
“ Podetia lax, slightly compressed, very much branched, 
smoothish, scales leaf-like granular, notched, clustered, glau- 
cous, apothecia nearly terminal dilated flat. 
“ Horizontal thallus crustaceous, soon evanescent. Podetia 
crowded below but not centrally united (like S. corallinum.) 
Young podetia a little downy, soon smooth, densly incrusted ; 
scales thicker than in the rest of this series, roundish, glau- 
cous.’ ’ 
Old walls Strathmartin. 
S. condensatum, Laur. 
“ Podetia erect taper subdivided, clothed with thin whit- 
ish flesh-coloured woolliness, scales roundish taperish and 
confluent, glaucous. Apothecia terminal dilated flat, some- 
what peltate. 
“ Horizontal thallus 'persistent . Podetia nearly simple 
distinct, erect, when old smooth. Apothecia almost solitary 
very much dilated, margin at length reflexed.” 
Old walls near Auchterhouse, and Balkenmock. 
S. denudatum, Florke. 
