202 Acta Societatis pro Fauna et Flora fennica, VII. 



Lich. p. 28), cellulis caeruleo-virescentibus, in filamenta gyrosa 

 sat brevia concatenatis, vagina gelatinosa sat tenui instructa, in 

 zona infra stratum corticale disposita. Apothecia peltata, basi 

 demum subpodidellato-angustata, in margine aut lamina superiore 

 thalli sita, in ipsa superficie thalli enata. Excipulum strato 

 corticali crasso, sat grosse pseudoparenchymatico, et strato 

 medullari gonidiis destituto instructum. Hypothecium pallidum. 

 Sporae 8:nae, oblongae aut fusiformi-oblongae aut ellipsoideae 

 globosaeve, simplices, decolores. Conceptacula pycnoconidiorum 

 in margine thalli sita, verruculas extus nigricantes formantia, in- 

 tus pallida. Sterigmata crebre articulata. Pycnoconidia cylindrico- 

 oblonga, brevia, recta. 



1. E. polycarpum Fee, Ess. Crypt. Ecorc. (1824) p. 146; 

 Tuck., Syn. North Am. (1882) p. 110; Nyl., Syn. Lich. II (1885) 

 p. 47 (mus. Paris.); Mull. Arg., Rev. Lich. Feean. (1887) p. 16, 

 Lich. Beitr. (Fl. 1888) n. 1288. 



*E. verruculosum Wainio (n. subsp.). 



Thallus foliaceus, lobatus, superne crebre verruculosus et 

 rhizinoideo-villosus, villo circ. 0,5 — 0,4 millim. longo, pallidus vel 

 cinereo-pallidus, subtus nudus, tenuissime nervosus, albidus vel 

 nervis pallescenti-albidis, glaber, margine passim rhizinis crebris, 

 1 — 1,5 millim. longis, penicillato- vel fibrilloso-ramulosis, pro parte 

 caeruleo-nigricantibus, pro parte albido-pallescentibus instructus. 

 Apothecia disco planiusculo, rufescente, tenuissime caesio-pruinoso, 

 excipulo extus plus minusve villoso. Sporae ellipsoideae oblon- 

 gaeve, long. 0,oio— 0,oi4, crass. 0,oos — 0,0 8 millim. 



Ad corticem arborum in Garassa (1400 metr. s. m.) in civ. 

 Minarum, n. 1196. — E. polycarpum thallo superne haud ver- 

 ruculoso et villo breviore tenuioreque a planta nostra diflert. — 

 Thallus circ. 0,i60— 0,120 millim. crassus, circ. 20 — 15 millim. 

 latus, lobis circ 7 — 2 millim. latis, ambitu subintegris aut crena- 

 tis, involutis. Stratum corticale superius circ. 0,0 6 — 0,0 3 millim. 

 crassum, valde inaequaliter incrassatum, laceratum verruculosum- 

 que, sat grosse pseudoparenchymaticum, ex hyphis verticalibus, 

 parenchymatice septatis formatum, series plures irregulariter hori- 

 zontals cellularum contincns, lumine cellularum circ. O,oio — 0,004 

 millim. lato, membranis leviter incrassatis aut sat crassis (circ. 



