the ardelloe are somewhat innate, as it were rubbed down, it is
A. astroidea var. simulans Leight. (Lioh. Fl. ed. 3, p. 420).
Hab. On smooth bark of trees.—Bistr. General and common
throughout the British Isles.—A. M. Shanklin, I. of W ig h t; near
Lyndhurst, New Forest, H a n ts ; Ullacombe, near Bovey Tracey,
Devon; St. Leonard’s Forest, Sussex; Braydon Forest, Wilts; Hoe
Street, Walthamstow, Hooldey Woods and Ulting, Essex; near
Worcester and Malvern, Worcestershire ; Harboro’ Magna, Warwickshire
; near Barmouth, Merioneth ; near Shrewsbury, near Wellington
and near Acton Scott, Shropshire; Trefriw, Carnarvonshire ; Airyholme
Wood, Cleveland, Yorkshire ; Teesdale, Durham ; by the Falls
of the Clyde, Lanarkshire ; near Stirling ; Ben Lawers and Finlarig,
Killin, Perthshire ; Appin, Argyll; Morrone, Braemar, Aberdeenshire ;
Askew Wood and Cromaglown, Killarney, Kerry ; between Bandon
and Innishannon, Cork; near Dublin; Maain Turk Mts. and Delphi,
Connemara, Galway.
Var. epipastoides A. L. Sm.—Thallus whitish. Apothecia
small, very slender, elongate, sparingly irregular ; spores ra th e r
smaller th an in the species.—A. astroidea var. epipastoides Nyl.
Lich. Scand. p. 259 (1861) ; Cronib. Lich. Brit. p. 103.
The apothecia are usually minutely lirellseform, though sometimes
somewhat punctiform and similar to the following species.
Hab. On smooth bark of trees.—Bistr. Bare in the Channel
Islands, S. England and S. Ireland.—A. M. Noirmont, Jersey ; Ilsham
Walk, Torquay, Devon ; Eagle’s Nest and Killarney, Kerry.
19. A. punctiformis Ach. Lich. Univ. p. 141 (1810) pro p arte
& Syn. p. 4 (1814).—Thallus thin, indeterminate, whitish or
copper-coloured. Apothecia dark-brown, plane or slightly convex,
scattered, subinnate, roundish or oblong, internally pale ; spores
colourless, linear-clavate, or obovate, obtuse, 3-4-septate, the cells
equal in size, 0,016-24 mm. long, 0005-8 mm. th ic k ; hymenial
gelatine blue then dark, the asci wine-red, with iodine.—Leight.
in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, xiii. p. 438, t. 7, f. 31 (1854),
incl. f. galactina Leight. I. c. (non Ach.) & Lich. PI. p. 395 ; ed. .3,
p. 419 ; Mudd Man. p. 247 pro parte ; Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 104.
A. epipasta var. ¡3 microscopica Leight. in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist,
ser. 2, xiii. p. 436, t. 7, f. 30 (1854) pro parte. Opegrapha epipasta
Hook, in Sm. Engl. El. v. p. 144 pro parte (non Ach.) ; Engl. Bot.
t. 1828?; Tayl. in Mackay El. Hib. ii. p. 105. Mysterina
epipasta S. P. Gray Nat. Arr. i. p. 506 (1821)?
Closely allied to A. radiata, differing chiefly in the less determinate
thallus and the smaller usually punctiform apothecia.
Hdb. On smooth bark of trees.—Distr. Somewhat rare in S.
England and W. Ireland.—A. M. New Forest, Hants ; near Kylemore
and Doughruagh Mt., Connemara, Galway.
Var. melantera Leight. Lich. FL. p. 396 (1871).—Thallus
somewhat darker-coloured th an in the species. Apothecia ra th e r
elongate, slender, spores as in the species.—-Leight. Lich. Fl.
ed. 3, p. 419. A. obscura var. melantera Ach. Syn. p. 7 (1814).
A. epipasta Mudd Man. p. 247 (1861) (non Koerb.) (spore
measurements incorrect); Leight. Lich. El. p. 397 ; ed. 3, p.
420 (spore measurements too large). A. astroidea var. epipasta
Nyl. in Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherb. v. p. 133 (1857); Cromb.
Lich. Brit. p. 103. Opegrapha microscopica Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 1911
(1808). Hysterina microscopica S. E. Gray Nai.. Arr. i. p. 506
(1821)?
Exsicc. Mudd n. 230 (as A. epipasta).
Distinguished from the species by the darker, shining thallus.
Hab. On branches and trunks of trees.—Distr. Bare throughout
the British Isles.—A. M. Noirmont Manor, Jersey; Newton Bushell,
Devon ; near Swindon, Gloucestershire; Dolgelly, Merioneth ; near
Welshpool, Montgomeryshire; Stableford, Shropshire; Cliffrigg and
Ayton, Cleveland, Yorkshire ; Banks of Garry, Blair Athole, Perthshire;
Morrone, Braemar, Aberdeenshire; near Crosshaven, Cork.
20. A. insinuata Stirton in Trans. Glasgow Soc. Nat. 1875,.
p. 90.—Thallus whitish or pale, subsquamulose, very thin.
Apothecia brown or brownish-black, adnate, round or oblong or
somewhat irregular, a t first veiled, generally with a somewhat
squamulose thalline margin, internally p a le ; spores 4 to 8 in the
ascus, colourless, sometimes slightly brownish, oblong, crenulate
a t the margin, spuriously and equally 4-septate, 0,014-21 mm.
long, 0,006-8 mm. th ic k ; hymenial gelatine bright-blue with
iodine.—Leight. Lich. Fl. ed. 3, p. 423. Specimen not seen.
Hab. On trees. Collected by Dr. Stirton near Killiecrankie, Perthshire.
§ iii. L e c i d e o p s i s Almquist in K. Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Handl.
xvii. n. 6, p. 46 (1880).
Algal cells Palmellaceee or thallus wanting. Apothecia
blackish; spores usually 1- rarely pluri-septate.
Spores i-septate.
21. A. patellulata Nyl. in Bot. Not. 1853, p. 95.—Thallus
whitish, thin, effuse. Apothecia black, small, roundish or
angular, appressed, plane, blackish w ith in ; spores obovate,
colourless, 1-septate, small, 0,009-15 mm. long, 0,003-5 mm.
thick, the upper cell somewhat thicker, the lower longer and
oblong; hymenial gelatine wine-red with iodine.—Carroll in
Journ. Bot. iii. p. 291 (1865) ; Cromb. Lich. Brit. p. 105 ; Leight.
Lich. El. p. 392 ; ed. 3, p. 416.
Hab. On smooth bark in wooded regions.—Distr. Bare in Ireland.
—A. M. Carigogunnel, near Limerick.
22. A. lapidicola Branth d:. Rostr. in Bot. Tidssk. iii.
p. 245 (1869).—Thallus darlc-olivo-brown, thin, furfuraceous.