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cum strato uiucoso concolori coalitae. — SiDeruiogonia, qva- 

 tenus nota, caespitosa, raro solitaria, modo apotheciis im- 

 mixta, nunc segregata, sphaei'iiformia, unilocularia, atra seu 

 nigra. Spennatia elongata, exilia, brevissima, simplicia, in- 

 coloria, in cirros ejecta *). 



Fungilli corti- vel lignicolae, lente crescentes, perennes. 



Subfam. 7. STICTIDEAE. Apothecia matrici immersa 

 vel innata, subinde erumpentia posteaqve liberata, aperta aut 

 ab initio chiusa, orbicuhiria vel elongata, excipulo tenui, mo- 

 nostromatico vel indistincto sive partibus matricis adjacenti- 

 bus pai-enchyraate fungino infarctis formato, rarius coriaceo- 

 corneo. Asci elongato-clavati, obtusi, subsessiles, rarius cy- 

 lindracei. Sporae distichae vel couglobatae, ellipsoideae, ob- 

 longatae, elongatae, bacillares vel filiformes, spurie septatae, 

 rarius simplices. 



XLI. ; PATELLARIA Fr. Summ. Yeg. Scand. p. .360. 



Apothecia innata, rarius erumpentia vel superficialia, 

 aperta aut prhuitus clausa posteaqve margine denticulato- 

 rupto dehiscentia, concava vel planiuscula, nuda, excipulo 

 coriaceo-corneo, sat tenui, atra. Asci elongato-clavati, ob- 

 tusi, subsessiles, majusculi vel mediocres. Sporae 4 — 8:nae, 

 distichae vel conglobatae, ellipsoideae, oblongatae vel bacil- 

 lares, spurie septatae, raro simplices, incolores. Ifaraphy- 

 ses filiformes. 



XLII. SCHmXZOMIA Fr. Summ. Veg. Scand. p. 363. 



Apothecia imraersa vel erumpenti-superficialia, initio 



clausa, urceolata, rarissime patelliformia, margine integro vel 



*) Asci in plerisqve speciebus sporas rite evolutas continentes 

 raro iuveniuntur, sed conspiciuntur corpusculis minutissimis ellipsoideis 

 vel oblongatis fa^cti. An haecce corpuscula veras sporas sistant, in 

 medium relinqvimus. 



