122 LICHENS OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON 



Co. : Cedarville, 300 ft., 1940, 2892. Kitsap Co. : Hidden Ranch near Brem- 

 erton, 213 ft., 1931, 529. King Co.: Grass Mt. Trail, 2200 ft., 1931, 711. 

 Whatcom Co.: Mt. Baker, 1000 ft., 1914, G. Turesson (W). Thurston 

 Co.: Gate, 1912, Foster 1984 (W). Ferry Co.: Republic near Sanpoil 

 River, Foster (W). 



A beautiful lichen, usually found growing in dense woods on decaying 

 logs, easily recognized because of the pinkish colored disks of the apothecia 

 on the greenish gray thallus. 



49. Lecania Mass. Alcun. Gen. Lich. 12. 1855. 



Thallus uniformly crustose, sometimes marginally lobed, rarely dwarf- 

 fruticose, no definite division into layers; no color change with KOH. 

 Apothecia circular, often crowded, then angular, adnate to sessile ; proper 

 margin rarely appearing, thalline margin present; hypothecium hyaline; 

 paraphyses unbranched, distinct; asci normally 8-spored, sometimes 16-32- 

 spored; spores hyaline, fusiform or ellipsoid, 1 -many-septate. 



Alga Protococcus. 



1. Lecania cyrtella (Ach.) Th. Fr. Lichenogr. Scand. 1 :294. 1871-74. 

 Lecidea cyrtella Ach. Meth. Lich. 67. 1803. 

 Biatora cyrtella (Ach.) Mann. 



Thallus white, grayish green, pale yellow, or dark brown, very thin, 

 smooth or becoming warty, sometimes disappearing. Apothecia circular, 

 angular when crowded, 0.2-0.8 mm. in diameter, adnate to subsessile ; disk 

 pale flesh color (R), tawny, or blackish, flat to convex, biatorine; thalline 

 margin entire, disappearing early; asci 8-16-spored; spores hyaline, fusi- 

 form-oblong, 1-3-septate, 9.0-16.2 x 4.6-5.0 /*. 



On bark : San Juan Co. : Turn Island, 1928, 2026. Ferry Co. : Repub- 

 lic, 1913, Foster 2419 (F). Washington Territory, Suksdorf (F). 



50. Haematomma Mass. Ricerch. Auton. Lich. 32. 1852. 



Thallus uniformly crustose or squamulose, tartareous, thick, rough or 

 smooth, with a more or less well-developed upper cortex, other layers not 

 well developed. Apothecia circular, sessile ; epithecium blue with KOH ; 

 proper margin absent, thalline margin concolorous with the thallus, thin and 

 soon disappearing; hypothecium hyaline; paraphyses unbranched, thread 

 like, brownish and slightly thickened at the tips ; asci 8-spored ; spores hya- 

 line, finger, needle, or spindle form, straight or curved, 3-many-septate, thin 

 walled with cylindrical cells. 



Alga Protococcus. 



1. Haematomma ventosum (L.) Mass. Ricerch. Auton. Lich. 33. 1852. 

 Lichen ventosus Linn. Sp. PI. 1141. 1753. 

 Lecanora ventosa (L.) Ach. 



Thallus pale yellow, dirty yellow, greenish yellow, or gray, tartareous, 

 consisting of cracked areoles, thick ; yellow with KOH. Apothecia circular, 



