530 TRYPETHELIACEAE. 



6. Trypethelium catervarium (Fee) Tuck. Genera Lich. 260. 1872. 



Verrucaria catervaria Fee, Essai Crypt. 90, pi. 22, f. 1. 1824. 



On bark, New Providence, at Waterloo Coppice : Alabama ; Cuba ; Porto Rico ; 

 Costa Rica; Colombia; Australia. 



7. Trypethelium ochroleucum (Eschw.) Nyl. Flora 52: 126. 1869. 



Verrucaria ochroleuca Eschw. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 1 : 135. 1833. 



On bark, Andros, near Deep Creek : widely distributed in tropical America, 

 and recorded also from tropical Asia. 



8. Trypethelium pallescens Fee, Ann. Sci. Nat. I: 23: 440. 1831. 



Trypethelium ochroleucum var. pallescens Muell. Arg. Bot. Jahrb. 6: 392. 



1885. 

 On bark, Eleuthera and Great Exuma : widely distributed in tropical America. 



9. Trypethelium eluteriae Spreng. Anleit. zur Kennt. Gewachse 1: 351. 1804. 



Trypethelium Sprengelii Ach. Lich. Univ. 306. 1810. 



9a. forma typica. 



On bark of various species, Great Bahama, New Providence, Eleuthera (type- 

 locality!), Great Exuma, Cat Island, Long Island: widely distributed in tropical 

 regions of both hemispheres. 



9b. Trypethelium eluteriae var. truncatum Muell. Arg. Bot. Jahrb. 6: 393. 

 1885. 

 Watling's Island : Cuba. 



9c. Trypethelium eluteriae var. citrinum (Eschw.) Muell. Arg. 1. c. 1885. 

 Astrothelium varium var. citrinum Eschw. in Mart. FL Bras. 1: 162. 1833. 

 New Providence, at Waterloo Coppice : Cuba ; Brazil ; Australia. 



9d. Trypethelium eluteriae var. subsulphureum (Wainio) Riddle. 



Pseudopyrenula eluteriae subsp. siibsulphurea Wainio, Lich. Bres. 2: 205. 



1890. 

 New Providence, at Lake Cunningham : Cuba ; Brazil. 



9e. Trypethelium eluteriae var. nigricans (Fee) Muell. Arg. Mem. Soc. Phys. 

 Hist. Nat. Geneve 30 3 : 21. 1888. 



Trypethelium Sprengelii Fee, Ann. Sci. Nat. I: 23: 430. 1831. 

 New Providence and Cat Island : tropical America. 



3. MELANOTHECA Fee. 



1. Melanotheca cruenta (Mont.) Muell. Arg. Bot. Jahrb. 6: 397. 1885. 

 Trypethelium cruentum Mont. Ann. Sci. Nat. II: 8: 357. 1837. 



On bark, Great Bahama and New Providence : -widely distributed in tropical 

 regions of both hemispheres. 



4. BOTTARIA Mass. 



1. Bottaria cruentata Muell. Arg. Bot. Jahrb. 6: 395. 1885. 



Trypethelium cnientatum Nyl. Flora 59: 365. Hyponym. 1876. 



On bark, Great Bahama, Abaco, Andros, New Providence, Cat Island, Crooked 

 Island : Florida ; Cuba. 



Externally identical with the preceding species, but differing in the muriform 

 spores, the cells of which in the specimens examined are subspherical, not cubical as 

 given in the key in Engler and Prantl : Die Naturlichen Fflanzenfamilien I 1 * : 69. 



