Lecidea. 41 



tinuus, nigricans ant griseo-obscuratus. ApotJiecia adpressa, 0,5 

 —0,3 millim. lata, atra, nuda, convexa, mox immarginata aut 

 rarius primo tenniter marginata. Hypothecium albidnm. Hyme- 

 nium sat dilute smaragdulo-caeruleum, epithecio aeruginoso-fuli- 

 gineo. Sporae 8:nae, oblongae, bene curvatae aut pro parte rec- 

 tae, pro parte simplices, pro parte demum 1-septatae, long. 0,0 1 4 

 — 0.0 9, crass. O.0035 — 0,0025 millim. 



Ad rupes itacolumiticas in Carassa (1400 metr. s. m.) in civ. 

 Minarum, n. 1199. — Thallus hypothallo caeruleonigricante in- 

 structus. Excipulum extus fusco- aut violaceo-fuligineum, intus 

 decoloratum. Hymenium circ. 0,oso millim. crassum, jodo cae- 

 rulescens deindeque vinose rubens. Paraphyses arete cohaeren- 

 tes, 0,ooi millim. crassae, apice haud. incrassatae, neque con- 

 strictae, nee ramosae. Asci clavati. Sporae distichae, decolores, 

 apicibus rotundatis aut obtusis, medio non constrictae. 



Stirps 2. Eucatillaria Th. Fr. Apofhecid disco atro. Hy- 

 pothecium obscuratum. 



Catillaria B. Eucatillaria Th. Fr., Licli. Scand. (1874) p. 580. 



42. L. endochroma (Fee) Nyl., Enum. Gen. Lich. (1857) p. 

 123, Lich. Nov.-Gran. ed. 2 (1863) p. 351. Lecanora Fee, Ess. 

 Lich. Ecorc. (1824) p. 114 tab. 29 fig. 1. Patellaria Mull. Arg. 

 Lich. Beitr. (1881) n. 355, Rev. Lich. Fee (1887) p. 8. Heterothe- 

 cium Tuck., Syn. North Am. II (1888) p. 55. 



Thallus crustaceus, crassitudine mediocris, verruculoso-inae- 

 qualis aut leviter verrucoso-rugulosus, vulgo subcontinuus, albidus 

 aut glaucescenti- vel cinerascenti-albidus. ApotJiecia adpressa, 

 2,5 — 1 millim. lata, disco piano aut demum convexo, atro, nudo, 

 margine mediocri, luteo aut stramineo aut albido-pallido aut sub- 

 virescenti-variegato, persistente aut demum subexcluso. Hypo- 

 fhecium fusconigricans aut dilute mscescens vel sordide violaceo- 

 fuscescens. Sporae S:nae, oblongae aut subfusiformi-oblongae, 

 vulgo rectae, 1-septatae, long. 0,030— 0,ou, crass. 0,007— 0,005 

 millim. 



Ad corticem arborum passim obvia, n. 228, 244, 673, 788, 

 830, 1005, 1079, 1497, 1539. — Ad species inter Psorothecia 

 et Catillarias intermedias pertinet. Thallus hypothallo nigri- 

 cante partim limitatus. Excipulum proprium, gonidiis clestitutum, 

 strato medullari stuppeo, lutescente aut albo, strato corticali chon- 



