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hypothecium about the color of the upper thecium, a thin gonidial layer underlying 
the hypothecium; asci clavate; all hymenial structures stained blue with iodine, 
no change with KHO; spores 8, oblong-ellipsoid, brown, 16 to 32 p long, 7.5 to 15 
thick; spermatia stafi-shaped, 6 to 8 » long. 
On shrubs along the California coast and on the adjacent islands. 
2. Anaptychia leucomela (L.) Herre, Proc. Washington Acad. Sci. 12: 261. 1910. 
Iachen leucomelos L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. 1613. 1763. 
Loosely suberect, pale greenish ash color, glaucescent above, beneath white, chan- 
neled, the laciniz linear, sparingly divided, latterly furcate at the extremities, the 
border with strong, blackening, forked fibrils, with KHO the cortex and medulla 
yellow, Ca(ClO),—; apothecia pedicellate; disk dark, pruinose, the thalline margin 
lobulate; epithecium continuous, dark greenish brown; thecium colorless, 92 to 96 p 
high; paraphyses coherent, the tips thickened and colored, some furcate above; hypo- 
thecium pale straw color; asci inflated-clavate, all hymenial structures staining blue 
with iodine; spores 8, oblong-ellipsoid, 22 to 24 long, 10 to 13 p thick, bilocular, 
brown, the lumina rounded, becoming flat, with an isthmus; a thin gonidial layer 
underlying the hypothecium. 
The fruiting specimen from which the description is taken was collected near 
Cape San Quentin, Lower California, by Dr. E. L. Greene. Specimens from Santa 
Catalina and Santa Rosa islands, T'rask, are sterile. 
