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Thallus grayish white or pale greenish gray, smooth and polished to 

 rough and warty, often forming a granular crust, sometimes areolate; 

 medulla not blood red beneath the apothecia. Apothecia scattered, 1.0-2.0 

 mm. in diameter, circular often irregular, immersed to adnate; disk black 

 and shiny, convex to subglobose; proper margin black with a reddish 

 tinge, soon disappearing; hypothecium hyaline or faintly colored; para- 

 physes coherent with bluish black tips ; spores very large, hyaline, oblong- 

 ellipsoid, nonseptate, 70.0-95.7 x 20.0-50.0 /x. 



On decaying wood and bark : Clallam Co. : Lake Sutherland, 590 ft., 

 1931, 1132. Whatcom Co.: Mt. Baker, Galena, 3800 ft., 1931, 1190. King 

 Co. : Snow Lake Trail, 3000 ft., 1931, 8S0. Pierce Co. : White River Camp, 

 3900 ft., 1940, 3093a; Mt. Rainier, Berkeley Park, 6000 ft., 1931, 617, 

 1940, 3024. 



2. Mycoblastus sanguinarius (L.) Norm. Nyt. Mag. Nat. 7:237. 1853. 

 Lichen sanguinarius Linn. Sp. PI. 1140. 1753. 

 Heterothecium sanguinarius (L.) Tuck. 



Thallus white, grayish white, pale yellow, or dark greenish gray, rough 

 and warty, often forming a granular crust, sometimes broken, areolate; 

 medulla blood red beneath the apothecia. Apothecia scattered, crowded, 

 1.0-3.0 mm. in diameter, circular, often irregular in shape, immersed or 

 adnate; disk black, often shiny, convex to globose; proper margin black 

 with a reddish tinge, soon disappearing; hypothecium hyaline or faintly 

 colored; paraphyses coherent with bluish black tips; spores very large, 

 hyaline, oblong-ellipsoid, nonseptate, 70.0-92.4 x 20.0-50.0 fi. 



On decaying wood and bark : San Juan Co. : Orcas Island, Mt. Consti- 

 tution, 2500 ft., 1928, 2017. Grays Harbor Co.: Lake Quinault, 300 ft., 

 1931, 1207. Kitsap Co. : Hidden Ranch near Bremerton, 213 ft., 1930, 547. 

 King Co.: Snoqualmie Lodge, 3300 ft., 1931, 1781. Pierce Co.: trail to 

 Mowich Lake, 3500 ft., 1940, 2989, 3064. San Juan Co. : Orcas Island, 

 Turtle Back Mountain, 1906, Fink 469 (W). Clallam Co.: Port Angeles 

 above High Line Logging Cutting, 3000 ft., 1914, Foster 2807, 2812 (W). 



ZZ. Catillaria Th. Fr. Lich. Scand. 1 :563. 1871-1874. 



Thallus crustose throughout or with foliose lobes on the margins, 

 smooth, granulose, warty, or areolate, no definite dififerentiation into lay- 

 ers. Apothecia circular, immersed, adnate, or sessile; proper margin con- 

 colorous with the thallus ; hypothecium light colored or black ; paraphyses 

 unbranched, free or coherent, sometimes with knob-shaped tips; asci 

 8-spored; spores hyaline, 1 -septate, rarely nonseptate. 



Alga Protococcus. 



A. Apothecia reddish black or black, one cell of the spore narrower than 

 the other, septum always distinct 1. C. atropurpurea 



A. Apothecia flesh color (R), brown, or black, both cells of the spore equal 

 in size, septum not always distinct. 



