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2. Conida fusca (Mass.), Th. Fr. 



On stones in the vicinity of Floeberg Beach ; "Walrus Island, 

 Franklin- Pierce Bay ; Cape York. 



This plant, formerly referred to Arthronia or Coniangium, has 

 certainly no developed thallus, and grows on several other more or 

 less developed lichens, which are thereby deformed in the same 

 manner as I have indicated in ' Lich. Scand.' p. 343, in the case of 

 Arthronia phceobcea, Norm. Spor® 0015-0-018 mm. long® et 

 0006-0*008 mm. crass®, episporio subgelatinoso crassiusculo. 



3. CONIDA CLEMENS, Till. 



quarters. 



Hagen 



Nyl 



fl 



several sterile crusts of lichens in many places in the vicinity of 

 'Alert's ' winter-quarters ; Cape Union, altit. 1200 feet ; Cape 

 Sabine ; Alexandra Haven. — Spor® in ascis inflatis 8n®, ellip- 

 soide®, diblast®, 0-012-0015 mm. long® et 0006-0008 mm. 

 crass® ; gelatina hymen, iodo intensius dilutiusve violasccns vol 

 violascenti-rubens. 



5. Ekdococcus PYGMiEUS (Kiirb.), Th. Fr. 



In many places around Floeberg Beach ; Discovery Bay ; Po- 

 laris Bay; Walrus Island, Franklin-Pierce Bay; Cape Sabine; 

 Crossing Harbour ; Cape York. On Caloplaca elegant, Lecanora 

 varia /3. polytropa, Leeidea elata, elceochroma, and brachyspora ; 

 also on some sterile crusts. — Spor® in ascis inflato-clavatis nume- 

 rosissimse, ellipsoide® vel suboblong®, medio vix constrict®, 

 diblast®, 0*005-0-008 mm. longa> et 0003-0004 mm. crass® ; 

 gelatina hymen, iodo leviter vinoso-rubens. 



6. Endococcfs tbipheactits, Nyl. 



Cape York, on a sterile crust so poor that the apothecia seem 

 to arise from the very stone. This form may be named nuda. — Apo- 

 thecia subglobosa, 0'2 mm. circ. lata, medio nonnihil umbilicato- 

 depressa ; paraphyses null® ; anaphyses pro ratione validiuscul® ; 

 sporaB in ascis sat angustis, subcylindricis vel medio crassioribus 

 8n®, oblong® vel elongato-oblong®, utrinque obtus®, rect® vel 

 curvul®, tetrablast® (immixtis paucis simplicibus diblastisque), 

 nicricantes. 01 2-0-01 8 mm. lone® et OOOt-0'005 mm. crass® • 



