60 LICHENS OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON 



Dewey Lake, 4800 ft., 1940, 2786. Washington Territory, 1882, Suksdorj 

 209, Type specimen (T). 



22. Lecidea granulosa (Ehrh.) Ach. Meth. Lich. 65. 1803. 

 Lichen granulosus Ehrh. Pt. Crypt, ex. No. 145, 1785. 

 Biatora granulosa (Ehrh.) Flot. 



Thallus of grayish white, yellowish white, or greenish gray granules, 

 crowded and imbricated, hemispherical, often forming a rather thick, 

 sorediate crust, or squamulose, often lobate at the circumference. Apothecia 

 circular, clustered, often confluent and irregular in shape, 0.5-2.0 mm. in 

 diameter, adnate; disk flesh colored (R), olive brown, or black, dull, some- 

 times papillate, flat to convex; proper margin often paler than the disk, 

 raised, disappearing soon ; hypothecium pale yellow ; paraphyses coherent, 

 tips brownish; asci 8-spored; spores hyahne, ovoid-ellipsoid, nonseptate, 

 9.9-16.5 X 4.0-5.9 ii. 



On soil, mosses, or decaying wood : Whatcom Co. : Mt. Baker, 2800 ft., 

 1931, 1179. Pierce Co.: Mt. Rainier, Grand Park, 5575 ft., 1931, 654; 

 Berkeley Park, 6000 ft., 1940, 3015. Chelan Co. : Twisp Summit, 6066 ft., 

 1931, 1318. Ferry Co.: Keller, 2000 ft., 1940, 3117. Yakima Co.: Dewey 

 Lake, 4800 ft., 1940, 2782. Olympic Mountains, Hurricane Ridge, 1935, 

 A. H. Smith 2372 (F). Snohomish Co.: Marysville, 1928, /. M. Grant 

 (WTU). 



A common mountain lichen, rather easily identified because of the 

 yellow color reaction with KOH and the red with CaOClg. 



23. Lecidea holopolia (Tuck.) Zahlbr. Cat. Lich. Univers. 3:782. 1925. 

 Biatora holopolia Tuck. Syn. N. Am. Lich. 2 :26. 1888. 



Thallus brown or olive brown, granulose, granules coarse, tough, round, 

 usually crowded, sometimes scattered. Apothecia circular, 0.3-1.2 mm. in 

 diameter, adnate; disk reddish brown or black, flat becoming convex; 

 proper margin thick becoming lobate; hypothecium hyaline; paraphyses 

 conglutinate, tips forked; asci 8-spored; spores hyaline, ovoid, guttulate, 

 9.0-14.0 X 4.0-7.0 jM, description and spore measurements from type 

 specimen. 



On old wood : Washington Territory : 1882, Suksdorj 167, Type speci- 

 men (T). 



24. Lecidea myriocarpella (Merrill) Zahlbr. Cat. Lich. Univers. 3 :803. 

 1925. 



Biatora myriocarpella Merrill, Bryol. 16 :58. 1913. 



Thallus absent or very thin and inconspicuous. Apothecia minute, cir- 

 cular, very numerous, 0.1-0.3 mm. in diameter, adnate to subsessile; disk 

 usually dull black or dark brown, flat to convex ; proper margin dull black, 

 thin, soon disappearing ; hypothecium hyaline ; paraphyses gelatinated, tips 

 dark purplish; asci 8-spored; spores hyaline, ellipsoid, rarely 1 -septate, 8.0 

 X 4.0 ju,. 



