From other Britisli b
oblongo-cj’liiidrical e-onic Tho thnllijAÛ
species of the g-eiius this is distinguished by llie
( I 8 7 0 i 'î; i i ) “ ' ? r T " “ ''I * ; “ *“ ■ *«'■ r - r i . r«™
S 'V p 4o“ ' ° u • ) , p. 40. O arli'a-i™um ’ cmeremn Perps. Icon. -(1799) Lpi. c3h3Z^ tr ' 1i 4r 4^ ’
TJV IB UiSlllU
clifterently coloured stipes.
rr„; n *1 , . „ .uu usually more scattered.
in S. I r e i a n d Z u Z Z Æ
; S S = £ S S 5 | S
Unir. (1810) p 243 ■ N 4 T 7 stcmoneum Ach. Lich.
.;. .«o') o i . 1 1 : S , t L i ' k “ • “ 1 -
Bot. t. 25o7 1 Z e “ i v 7 '
G ^ y , Nat. Arr. i. p. 4 8 4 . - d 7 ' ¿ ¿ I
“ 7 ® of the
mg to the habitat. The sterile piant may um b ®^®“ 4er accordparts
of England, but fertile specF7ns aZ ra le ™freV>ent m some
and upland situâtionΗD ^ 7 LocIl’ ^ '*“ 4 pales in shady lowland
Sub-on EÜCALICIUAI Cromb. Grevillea xv.(1886) p 1 4 ,-T h a llu s
with globuloso gonidia ; spores globose or ellipsoid, simple or 1 -septate.
a. Spores globose, very rarely oblong, simple, brownish ;
sporal mass umbrine.
2. C. ch ry so cep h a lum Aob.
Aletli. Suppl. (1803) p. 15. Thallus
thickisli, granulate, granules
usually conglomerate, citrine or
bright greenisb-yollow. Apotheoia
scattered ; stipes ra th e r short,
slender, black or blackish-brown ;
eapitulum turbinato - lentiform,
black, beneath and a t th e margin oi-
triuo-suffused ; sporos 0,003-C mm.
in diameter.—Cromb. Lich. B n t. p.
11 : Leight. Lich. Fl. p. 39, ed. 3,
p ‘¿[),— Gyi)helmm chrysocephalum
Mudd, Man. p. 261. PMcotium
chrysocephalum Gray, Nat. Arr.
i. p. 484. Lichen ehrysocephalus
Turn. Linn. Soo. Trans, vii. (1804)
p. 88, t. 8. f. 1 ; Eng. Bot.
t. 2501. Galicium chrysocepha-
lum Sm. Eng. El. v. p. 140.—
Brit. Exs. : Loight. n. 134, pro
p a rte ; Mudd, n. 251.
Fig. 24.
Calicium guercinum Pers.—a. Goui
dia, X 350 diameters, h. Apo-
tliecium, X 30. c. Section of
apothecium (moistened), X 30.
d. Theca and paraphyses, X 350.
e. Spores, X 600. / . Vertical section
of a spermogonium, X 30. g. Sterigmata,
and h spermatia, X 500.
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Readily distinguished by its briglit
yellow thallus. which in British
specimens is persistent, and by the
colour of the margin and ofthe underside
of the eapitulum, but the latter
t b m r a Z m o r f 7 e a s scattered, rarely here aud there aggregate, and as
if subsessile.
Bab On old pales and barn-doors in maritime and upland tracts.—
Bistr Local and scarce in a few localities througliout E n g to id ; very
w e in S. and Central Scotland.-B. M .: Bury Suffolk ; AValtbams ow,
Essex; Pensburst, Ken t; Bolney, Sussex; Lyndlnirst New Boiest,
Hants; Downton Castle, Herefordshire; Hatfield,near Worcestei , Hay
Park, near Ludlow, Shropshire ; Rosedale, Cleveland, Yorkshire. 1 alls
of-Clyde, Lanarkshire ; Aberfeldy, Perthshire.
E o rm l. m e lan o c ep h a lum N yL S y n . i. (1 8 6 0 )p. 147p« v .f. 1 9 . -
Apothecia fasoioulately b ran ch ed ; stipes b la c k ; eapitulum black,
citrino-suffused only a t th e margin ; spores globose or ellipsoid,
pale-brown, 0 ,0 0 4 -1 6 mm. long, 0 ,0 0 4 -8 mm. thick.—Lenght. Licli.
Fl. p. 40, ed. 3, p. 39 ; Cromb. Grevillea, xv. p. 14.—Nrii. L.vs. .
Leight. n. 134, pro parte.
From the type, with wLioh it grows associated, this is distinguished
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